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

By Habiba Katsha Race and racism aren’t topics that are spoken about openly enough in the U.K., and... more

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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

American history classes are actually worsening kids’ understanding of America

Saying “I am not my ancestors” blatantly disrespects how they lived and died for us

Elbert Howard, one of the Black Panther Party founders, dies at 80

Missing pages of Malcolm X’s autobiography purchased by the Schomburg Center at NY auction

Letter to my Black mother who wants me to forgive the world when I saw it try to kill her

95 bodies—how sanitizing slavery keeps America’s hands clean

Remains of 95 Black “convict lease laborers” who were basically post-Civil War slaves found in Texas

New study shows that focus on appearance creates big barriers for Black women in sports

Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upsets high-ranking official in NY primary. What’s next?

Smithsonian Museum of African American History acquires Wakandan artifacts

What do we need for a new freedom?: A proudly fat, disabled, bisexual enby’s vision for #Juneteenth

Black witnessing is an insistence on Black being: Re-membering those who were lynched

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