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‘Pose’ actress Indya Moore to star in, executive produce Frankenstein retelling ‘Magic Hour’

Ethiopia and Eritrea end 20 year conflict with peace summit

Black nerds unite: Blerd City Con is coming to New York!

The FCC continues its war on internet access for Native Americans

Amid protests over surging fuel prices, Americans in Haiti urged to stay inside

Disgraced Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA, but his replacement could be just as bad for the environment

Meet the Black immigrant woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty to protest I.C.E.

NYC performer welcomes a world without anti-Blackness in “immersive abolitionist fairy-tale,” ‘Neptune’

Leftist who promised to take on corruption and the establishment wins Mexico presidency in a landslide

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions hires Black queer scholar to ensure better representation

Thousands gathered across the country this weekend to protest Trump’s immigration policies

9 protestors arrested at Portland ICE facility as immigration protests spread nationwide

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?

SCOTUS reverses lower courts decisions, sides with Trump’s Muslim travel ban in 5-4 vote

Nancy Pelosi, Democrats turn on Maxine Waters following her appeal to publicly shame Trump administration

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of restaurant, Maxine Waters says, “Good!”

Black woman was slated to be on a historic space launch. NASA removed her with no explanation

Smithsonian Museum of African American History acquires Wakandan artifacts

European Union seeks compromise on immigration during emergency session

The mayors and governors using their political sway to stall Trump’s immigration policies

White supremacist “Unite the Right” rally approved for second anniversary in D.C.

Trump’s new order ending family separations will just detain undocumented families indefinitely

U.S. pulls out of UN Human Rights Council citing anti-Israel “chronic bias”

How do you mourn an abuser?: Rapper XXXtentacion killed outside motorcycle dealership in Florida

5 undocumented migrants killed in Sunday police chase

Prisons increasingly employ teachers and secretaries to substitute for guards

Southern Baptists signal move away from conservatism with election of youngest president in 37 years

Spain’s new Socialist government will accept 600 migrants after Italy turns asylum seekers away

The Obsidian Collection and Google are working to digitize Black legacy newspapers for a modern world

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