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New report details how to support Black women in their political, economic and social roles

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by Daniel Johnson

Black Mamas Matter Alliance launches first national Black maternal health week

A Black woman transforms conditioned silence into language: How Audre Lorde induced my rebirth

Backpage co-founder charged after human trafficking investigation

N.C. approves policy to limit physical restraints of incarcerated women in labor

Conservative Christian colleges stuck between fear of laws around LGBTQ discrimination and fear of change

National Geographic and the New York Times own up to racist, sexist legacies

Working through anti-Black ideas around HIV while my partner is HIV positive

Black LGBTQ activists convicted on six of eight charges for Columbus Pride protests

It’s not just straight men: We all have to reckon with internalized femmephobia in the wake of #MeToo

The Black barbershop is both toxic and intimate for cishet Black men

New York Times report reveals Vice Media swam in a culture of racism and sexism

Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating and selfish

He’s gotta stop it: A Black, polyamorous femme on the Netflix “She’s Gotta Have It” reboot

How suffocating ideas of masculinity took the precious life of Giovanni Melton

Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization

Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my childhood

Cyntoia Brown is being failed by the justice system because she’s a black woman

Heinous anti-blackness: Dozens of African girls found dead in Mediterranean Sea

We are not yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body

Man kills 14 year old son because rigid masculinity standards are murderous

We need to talk about gay men using body types to conform to heteronormative gender roles

What Kevin Spacey’s “apology” says about how whiteness operates in marginalized spaces

‘House of Cards’ canceled in the wake of Kevin Spacey’s child sexual harassment scandal

Learning to love myself enough to f*ck raw while Black and HIV positive

Why Black gender conversations will always fail unless we center Black children

The anti-Blackness of believing there’s no support for queerness in the hood

Spokesmodel, not silenced model, Munroe Bergdorf spoke her piece

Stop expecting Black children to grow up straight & cisgender

Spelman to admit transgender students starting in 2018

I Will Tell If You Don’t: HBCUs, Gender, and Sexual Violence

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