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Prominent Saudi Arabian women’s activist’s family says she is being tortured after arrest

My ancestors didn’t die for the right to vote, and we are allowed to question them anyway

Chicago activists accuse police of negligence as Black girls and women continue disappearing

Andrea Jenkins becomes the first openly transgender Black woman elected to office

#FreedomNow Campaign Organizes Protests Across the Nation

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

Key Ferguson activist arrested

Activists call out Black celebrities for being silent about Ferguson, police brutality

Ferguson activists meet with President, demand an end to police brutality

Activists in Chicago call for investigation into fatal police shootings

Activists call for tracking of police misconduct by FBI

BYP100 Chicago Chapter leads march and demonstration in protest of racially unjust marijuana arrests

Members launch first Youth-led organization

BYP 100’s FM Supreme named Chicago Tribune’s ‘Remarkable Woman’

Community members hold funeral to “bury violence in Newark”

Youth Civil Rights Activists Finally Get A Prom, Fifty Years Later

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