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Toxic masculinity & guns: Mother of victim says daughter rejected shooter before Texas slaughter

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

North Carolina educators are the latest to protest in nationwide “Teacher Revolt”

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

Spike Lee receives standing ovation for “BlacKkKlansman” in triumphant return to Cannes

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians protesting US Embassy move to Jerusalem

Tina Knowles reveals she put her daughters in counseling at an early age

Education Dept declaws task force dedicated to investigating for profit college abuses

Woman throws ashes of niece who died in police custody at LAPD Chief

3 Black Airbnb guests swarmed after white woman calls police when seeing them check out

Thousands in Louisiana nursing homes could be evicted due to Medicaid cuts

Bill that would mandate 10 years for injuring police introduced to Congress

Junot Díaz accused of sexual harassment and sexist behavior

George Zimmerman summoned for criminal stalking charges in Florida

UT Austin ‘Restrictive Masculinity’ program under pressure by administration after right-wing criticism

‘Time’s Up’ sets sights on R.Kelly

3 white men arrested after lynching style murder of 2 Black men in Oklahoma City

Black Somali Muslim woman killed after family calls police for help during her mental health crisis

Nia DaCosta wins Nora Ephron Award at Tribeca Film Festival for ‘Little Woods”

VIDEO: Former NFL player Desmond Marrow assaulted by cops after racial attack, he says

Janelle Monae confirms her queerness ahead of release of ‘Dirty Computer’

Bill Cosby found guilty of 3 counts of aggravated sexual assault in Constand retrial

Federal judge rules DACA is a lawful program, US must accept new applications

Charlene Carruthers stepping down as National Director of BYP100 at the end of the year

Georgia police use law created to combat the Klu Klux Klan on counter-protesters of neo-Nazis

Black woman violently arrested at Waffle House draws calls for protests

Travis Reinking, Waffle House shooter arrested after five day manhunt ends

Cory Booker on Black people suffering under oppressive GOP governments: “We did it to ourselves”

Chicago-based Assata’s Daughters announces food justice through gardening project

Sandra Bland documentary to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

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