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Killer of Black Transgender Woman, Islan Nettles, Sentenced to 12 Years

Lauryn Hill Opens Haitian Art Exhibit In Flatbush

Here’s What is Happening with Beyoncé’s Newest Album

Meet the Black Woman Architect Behind the New Smithsonian Museum

Angela Davis Talks Black Liberation, History and the Contemporary Vision

Melissa Harris-Perry Named Elle.com’s Editor At Large

2 Former Track Rivals Killed In Separate Shootings

Baltimore Students Walk Out To Protest Standardized Test

Million Student March Organizer Schools Fox’s Neil Cavuto on Free College

In 2016, UVA Medical Students Think Blacks Feel Less Pain Than Whites

Of Course We Should All Be Critical of DeRay’s Mayoral Run

Judge Recommends 720 Days In Jail For Ethan Couch, “Affluenza” Teen

Los Angeles Family Questions Woman’s Reported Suicide in Jail

HBCU Gets $900 Million Grant to Stem HIV Infections

16-Year-Old Shot And Killed By Chicago Police Officer

Rappers Talk Mental Illness and Depression with VICE

Oprah Helps Alvin Ailey Dancer with Dream of a Lifetime

Buzzfeed’s ‘Questions Black People Have For Black People’ Video Backfires

Blacks More Likely to Get Arrested for Dealing Drugs than Whites Who Do Drugs More Often

‘Empire’ Star Bryshere Gray Talks Mental Health in Philadelphia

Three Teens Found Dead After Driving Stolen Car Into Pond

Wendell Pierce of ‘The Wire’ Invests $20 Million To Bring Jobs To Baltimore

Chicago Police Have Been Spying on Activists Since 2014 Or Maybe Longer

Baltimore School Cop Has Felony Child-Abuse Charge Dropped

10-year-old Dismantles the Classist U.S. Criminal Justice System

Harvard Owned Up to Its Role in Slavery. When Will the Others?

The Gentrification at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Projects Could Happen Anywhere

Chicago Alderman Proposes New Board To Monitor Police

Two Sisters Become Youngest California Beauty-Supply Owners

Former Fenger Principal Announces New Foundation To Help Youth

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