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Beyond Ferguson — Unrepresentative Democracy in City Elections

The CHRONIC Case Of When The Hood Gets Overlooked

Jim Crow returns: Millions of voters of color threatened by electoral purge

Jay Z, Kerry Washington, John Legend and More, Chose Schools Over Prisons

Poor Kids Are Starving for Words

‘Born and raised’ Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law

The Official Michael Brown Autopsy Report Doesn’t Say What the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Says It Does

The White Problem

Lenny Lacy: A New Generation’s Strange Fruit

An anti-Ebola march in SW Philadelphia: “I’m a West African – not a virus.”

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Janay Rice on Ray Rice costume: ‘It’s sad that my suffering amuses others’

Report: Chicago Police Are Getting Away With Brutality, And Most Of It Is Against Minorities

The “Dear White People” syndrome: Why movies are obsessed with light-skinned black characters

“I am Darren Wilson”: St. Louis and the geography of fear

Police Violence and Youth Resistance: “Mike Brown Means We Got to Fight Back!”

He’s Only Successful Because He’s Gay?

The Nod: A Subtle Lowering of the Head You Give to Another Black Person in an Overwhelmingly White Place

Wall Street lacks diversity

This is what the legacy of ‘white privilege’ looks like in Bill O’Reilly’s hometown

Why Vonderrit Myers matters

How Jimi Hendrix’s race became his ‘invisible legacy’

Democratic Candidates Must Work Harder to Lock in Black Voters

The Racist Housing Policies That Built Ferguson

Black Turnout in 1964, and Beyond

We Will Not Be Criminalized. We Will Not Be Dehumanized. We Are Young, Gifted and Black!

On Raven-Symoné and Erasing Black Lesbian Identity

Stop Asking if HBCUs are Relevant

And the Young Ones Shall Lead Them: The Ferguson Rebellion and the Crisis in Black Leadership

When teachers expect less of black and brown students

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