Events

NYC performer welcomes a world without anti-Blackness in “immersive abolitionist fairy-tale,” ‘Neptune’

Smithsonian Museum of African American History acquires Wakandan artifacts

The mayors and governors using their political sway to stall Trump’s immigration policies

White supremacist “Unite the Right” rally approved for second anniversary in D.C.

Trump’s new order ending family separations will just detain undocumented families indefinitely

U.S. pulls out of UN Human Rights Council citing anti-Israel “chronic bias”

5 undocumented migrants killed in Sunday police chase

Prisons increasingly employ teachers and secretaries to substitute for guards

Spain’s new Socialist government will accept 600 migrants after Italy turns asylum seekers away

A look inside the converted Walmart that shelters over 1,400 migrant children as detentions boom

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

As the FCC’s Net Neutrality repeal goes into effect, states issue lawsuits to fight internet deregulation

Judge says a bar refusing service to Trump supporters is not “outrageous” conduct

ICE arrests 114 at Ohio gardening stores in one of the largest workplace raids in years

Kim Kardashian West lobbied to commute Alice Marie Johnson’s cruel sentence. Now she’s out.

Supreme Court: Colorodo shop can’t be forced to serve gay couple, but ruling may not apply to similar cases

Former 911 dispatcher dishes on racist white callers, how ‘BBQ Becky’ is not an anomaly

Betsy DeVos says schools can call ICE on undocumented students, activists push back

Activists stall vote on funding Chicago police academy, citing “misplaced priorities”

NFL announces new fine for players who “take a knee,” players push back

The Obamas sign multiyear Netflix production deal

Oakland’s “BBQing While Black” gathers hundreds to clap-back at #BBQBecky

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians protesting US Embassy move to Jerusalem

Woman throws ashes of niece who died in police custody at LAPD Chief

3 Black Airbnb guests swarmed after white woman calls police when seeing them check out

Thousands in Louisiana nursing homes could be evicted due to Medicaid cuts

Junot Díaz accused of sexual harassment and sexist behavior

George Zimmerman summoned for criminal stalking charges in Florida

Black Somali Muslim woman killed after family calls police for help during her mental health crisis

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