Inspirational

Petition started to replace Confederate statue with sculpture of Missy Elliot

Baltimore removes Confederate statues overnight

Atlanta students greeted on first day of school with applause and high fives from mentors

HBO set to make ‘2 Dope Queens’ podcast a series

Chance the Rapper to give away 30,000 backpacks at Bud Billiken Parade

Michelle Obama says racist comments hurt the most during her time as First Lady

9-year-old born with HIV is now virus-free

Esperanza Spalding joins Harvard University faculty

Reflections on my thirty-four years as a Black man with mental illness

A. D. Carson, the Ph.D. student who rapped his dissertation, is now a professor of Hip-Hop

2 Chainz uses Pink Trap House for free HIV Testing

Central Park 5 get honorary high school diplomas

Jay-Z pens column asking artists to use their platform for social justice

Chance the Rapper wins BET’s Humanitarian Award at just 24

10-year-old Bishop Curry is working to help end hot-car deaths

Dave Chappelle donates $50,000 from show to Flint

First ‘Black Panther’ trailer drops in epic blackness glory

Sybrina Fulton considers running for office

When white people enter a space, anti-Blackness always does too

Michael Brown’s mother and sister get high school diplomas together

Baltimore 7th grader wins individual chess championsip

Harvard student Obasi Shaw turns rap album in for thesis project

Notre Dame graduates walk out during Mike Pence commencement

Kobe Bryant sends Jordan Edwards’s brother birthday gifts

14-Year-Old graduates college with a degree in Physics

BLM activists work to free over 30 mothers from jail for ‘National Mama’s Bail Out Day’

15-Year-Old snags NBA partnership for his bowtie company

Bill Brennan, New Jersey candidate for governor, connects for-profit prisons with slavery

Chicago Teenager, Thessalonika A. Embry, On Verge Of Earning Doctorate

Barack and Michelle Obama to donate $2 million to Chicago youth jobs

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