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Trump Pulls the US from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

If Black innocence never exists to the state, how can passivism and perfect victimhood save us?

LeBron James responds to racial slurs spray-painted on L.A. home

Noose found in National Museum of African American History

Kushner Meeting Under FBI Scrutiny for Ties to Russia

Police ask car accident victim to prove immigration status before helping, then detain him

GOP House candidate body slams reporter for asking tough questions

Liberation is a 3-step process: Broadening activism’s scope in the wake of the Movement for Black Lives

North Carolina’s racial gerrymandering actions struck down

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivers powerful speech on removal of Confederate monuments

Jeff Sessions is working to undo the work of anti-prison activists

Betty Shelby Found Not Guilty For Fatal Shooting of Terence Crutcher

Sandra Bland’s family critical of Texas act named in her honor

Trump Reveals Classified Info to Russians

I’ll still complain about politics even when I don’t vote – fight me.

Richard Spencer leads white supremacist march with lit torches to protect Confederate statue

Texas Senate passes Sandra Bland Act, addresses jail employees’ treatment of emotionally distressed inmates

Illinois Gov. Rauner Booed At Chicago State Commencement

Yes, Black liberals commodify Black Lives Matter too and it’s a major problem

BLM activists work to free over 30 mothers from jail for ‘National Mama’s Bail Out Day’

Betsy DeVos booed during commencement at Bethune-Cookman

Trump fires FBI Director James Comey because he can apparently do that

California bar celebrated Cinco de Mayo with fake border wall and green cards

Bill Brennan, New Jersey candidate for governor, connects for-profit prisons with slavery

Report: ‘Imprisoned Justice’ Details Life Inside Immigrant Detention Centers

What You Need to Know About The AHCA

What you need to know about Chicago’s ‘gang database’ and the lawsuit from local activists

Barack and Michelle Obama to donate $2 million to Chicago youth jobs

New Black Politicians, Yvette Simpson and Chokwe Lumumba, Emerge In Mayoral Primaries

White people have long tried to obscure slavery as the cause of the Civil War. Donald Trump is no different.

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