Culture

Brooklyn jail facing protests after freezing temperatures made prisoners sick

How tourists make cultures like Salvador’s into “exotic” commodities for their consumption

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

After Israeli police kill Ethiopian woman, community rallies to protest anti-Blackness & police brutality

Oklahoma City school to be designed specifically for homeless students

Houston police union president threatens to track civilian anti-police rhetoric after cops shot

What Future’s fear of admitting his sobriety says about our unhealthy expectation for Black pain

The importance of reckoning with anti-Black bias in the white-dominated tech world

Angola removes colonial-era law that prohibited homosexuality

Zora Neale Hurston helped create 1st mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a painted white one

Turning the fight to save the environment into a fight for racial justice

Comic: When white people can’t imagine a world without colonization

Former prosecutor acquits 3 cops accused of falsifying reports in Laquan McDonald shooting

Sudan arrests 28 journalists in crack down on anti-government protests

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal granted the right of appeal by Philadelphia judge

480,000 students affected as Los Angeles teachers go on strike for better wages, conditions

#Data4BlackLives conference highlights how technology and race interact

Voting rights restored to former felons in Florida, but lawmakers may add legal hurdles

Cyntoia Brown’s clemency is a glimmer of hope for Black girls and the ones who protect them

APA says ‘masculinity identity’ is linked to homophobia and misogyny in new report

Jameek Lowery went to cops for help, warned they’d kill him on FB live, then died in their custody

2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck

5 Israeli teenagers arrested for the fatal stoning of a Palestinian woman ahead of elections

Tennessee governor Bill Haslam grants Cyntoia Brown clemency after serving 15 years

Police still can’t find 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes’ killer as an older shooting gains suspicion

After shooting threats, lawsuits, & many celebrities refusing to appear, Lifetime’s ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ premieres

NYC to allow people to change gender or choose gender-neutral option on birth certificates

Netflix pulls episode of ‘Patriot Act’ critical of Saudi government at their request, draws criticism

Reconciling ‘glorious healing’ & the ‘loving refusal’ of intracommunal violence in an era of disposability

Organizers of California Women’s March cancel event over concerns that it’s ‘too white’

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