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Celebrities Call on #JUSTICEFORFLINT during the Oscars

Students Who Forced a U-Lock on a Black Student’s Neck Won’t Be Charged With a Hate Crime

Young Activists Disrupt Anita Alvarez Campaign Event Chanting “16 Shots!”

Chicago Mayor Goes After ‘Loosies’ Instead of Unfair Tax Policy

Harvard Promotes Michelle Williams As First African-American Faculty Dean

Howard University Is The Only HBCU Left With A Swimming Team

I Love Amber Rose’s Commentary on Clothes and Consent

The Protests For Ex-Officer Peter Liang Are Anti-Black Racism

Notre Dame Sees Its First Black Valedictorian

Former Black Panther, Albert Woodfox, Freed From Jail After 43 Years

Channing Dungey Is First Black Woman To Head A Major Network

It’s More Than A Head Wrap For US

We Should Be Happy Antonin Scalia Died

Two 911 Dispatchers Suspended After Quintonio LeGrier Murder

Marley Dias Reaches Her #1000BlackGirlBooks Goal

Queer Black Woman Park Cannon Elected to Georgia House

Lupita Nyong’o Coming to Broadway in Danai Gurira’s ‘Eclipsed’

Seattle Welcomes New Shelter For Homeless Youth

Student Loan Debt Is Becoming A Life Sentence In the US

12 Protesters Arrested After Blocking Traffic In Downtown Chicago

APPLY NOW: ‘Sing That Like Dovesong’ Workshop For Writers Of Color

Millennials in the Movement: BYP Spotlight with Blake Simons

North Carolina Begins Testing Welfare Applicants For Drug Use

Released Felons Can Now Vote In The State Of Maryland

The Black Panthers Are Finally Getting Air Time

BYP100 Feature: Read the ‘Agenda to Build Black Futures’ Now

Take A Look At The First Trailer For The ‘Roots’ Reboot

The First-Generation: Another Perspective Of The Low Black STEM Population

NYPD Officer Found Guilty In Death of Akai Gurley

Lincoln Park High School Students Walk Out To Protest CPS Budget Cuts

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