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Activist Bree Newsome Takes Down Confederate Flag

Supreme Court Decides Same-Sex Marriage is a Right for All in the United States

Columbia First US University To Divest from Private Prisons

Lupe Fiasco Posts Open Letter to White Supremacists

The #GoHomeDeray Hashtag Proves Hate For Black Activism Runs Deep

Rapper Mykki Blanco Rejects Stigma, Reveals HIV Positive Status

What We Know About the Charleston AME Church Massacre

#BlackKidsMatter: Police in Ohio Fractured Ribs, Jaw of 12-year-old Black Girl at a Local Pool

#SayHerName: Two Male Suspects Arrested for the Murder of Arnesha Bowers

Thousands of Black Dominican Residents Will Be Stripped of Citizenship, Deported to Haiti

Rachel Dolezal Steps Down From NAACP Post

Short Film Pays Homage to Islan Nettles

Listen to Nao’s Chilling Cover of Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout You”

3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets: A Chilling Documentary on the Murder of Jordan Davis

Jessica Williams Sums up the Absurdity of McKinney

This Girl’s Prom Dressed Killed the Game

Nigeria Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation

Laverne Cox Has the Best Response to Caitlyn Jenner’s Photo Shoot

Black People Killed by Police Twice as Likely to Be Unarmed as White People

Marilyn Mosby Launches New Program That Gives Young Offenders a Second Chance

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Please Make Feminism a Big, Raucous, Inclusive Party

William Chapman: 18, Unarmed & Killed by an Officer Previously Suspended for Shooting Another Unarmed Man

Michael B. Jordan Goes in on Racist Trolls

Azealia Banks to Star in RZA’s ‘Coco’

Are Hook Up Apps to Blame For Rise in STDs?

Chance the Rapper Stealthily Released a New Track Over the Weekend

Powerful Photos From #SayHerName

Black Youth Project 100 Leads National Day of Action For Black Women & Girls

Transgender Woman Stabbed To Death In Philadelphia

BYP 100’s Charlene Carruthers Named Arcus Leadership Fellow

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