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“Laughing barrels” and the defiant spirit of Black laughter

I'm so glad and relieved to have learned of laughing barrels, and to have been reminded of the tradition of Black laughter as resistance and survival.

by Sherronda J. Brown

How Audre Lorde taught me to love myself and my community

100 years after Chicago’s Red Summer race riots, the lasting legacy of segregation is crystal clear

How targeting Ilhan Omar instead of white supremacy furthered both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia

Moving to South Africa meant my race was different, but not the realities of racism

Palestinian Nayib Bukele wins El Salvador’s 2019 presidential election

Angola removes colonial-era law that prohibited homosexuality

Zora Neale Hurston helped create 1st mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a painted white one

Voting rights restored to former felons in Florida, but lawmakers may add legal hurdles

France’s investigation into attack that prompted the Rwandan genocide is finally ended

Why do so many others want to claim Blackness if it means oppression?

Finding our way back to the religions stolen from our ancestors

What Black Brits want African Americans to know about race and racism in the U.K.

Serial killer says he killed 90 women. It is possible because they were all sex workers and women of color

Founder of notorious private military company Blackwater looking to extract minerals from war-torn Afghanistan

Indigenous women sue Canada & its health authorities over forced sterilizations as recent as 2017

Continuing the tradition of Black youth organizations’ solidarity with Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu endorses death penalty bill designed specifically for Palestinians

Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship sparks fiery responses ahead of midterms

Second member of the MOVE 9, Michael Africa Sr., released on parole after 40 years in prison

Taylor Energy’s 14 year oil spill could overtake BP’s as the worst offshore environmental disaster in the U.S.

Ex-Green Beret admits political assassination plot by UAE and American soldiers

After exploiting her for research, Johns Hopkins University to name building after Henrietta Lacks

A Black feminist pleasure praxis acknowledges and affirms the possibility for Black women’s sexual pleasure

California becomes first state to abolish cash bail, but gives judges more discretion to jail defendants

After NYC makes inmate calls free, Texas reduces charge from 26 cents a minute to 6

Administration rebukes UNC protesters who toppled notorious confederate statue to the ground

PA Supreme Court publishes bombshell report on clergy abuse, 300 priests named over 30 years

Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul”, passed way Thursday morning

Ilhan Omar wins historic win in Minnesota’s Democratic Primary

We need solidarity across the Diaspora in challenging anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic

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