Race

How Jay-Z & other venture capitalists are creating new problems in the name of social justice

11-year-old Naomi Wadler reminds America that movements for our lives must include Black girls and women

Federal judge rules LAPD’s gang injunctions violate civil liberties

Supreme Court will allow Flint water contamination lawsuits

As light-skinned people, it’s our job to make space for those silenced most by colorism

National Geographic and the New York Times own up to racist, sexist legacies

White former U-Hart student who poisoned Black roommate receives just a slap on the wrist

Working through anti-Black ideas around HIV while my partner is HIV positive

Will and Jaden Smith’s company Just Water donates fresh water to a still struggling Flint, MI

3 tips for dealing with mental health issues exacerbated by anti-Blackness on college campuses

Reading proficiency in Flint down to a startling 10% years after water crisis began

Baltimore Police hid toy guns in case ‘of a jam,’ in addition to other crimes

Comic: We know why y’all keep trying to distance yourselves from slavery

China’s controversial hip-hop ban elicits charges of anti-Blackness

The question of Blackness: How conversations about Bruno Mars and Cardi B miss the mark

Reparations will never be given — it’s time we protect the everyday people who take them

Let’s talk about phenotype and global Blackness

Netflix’s ‘Bright’ is copaganda, plain and simple

Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”: The slave revolt fantasy Hollywood never intended to make?

Racism is killing Black babies and their mothers, says NPR study

Where were internet access crusaders when Facebook stopped Korryn Gaines from streaming cops murdering her?

Large pay gaps persist between white and of-color food service workers in the Bay Area

Comic: When white people think ancestry is easy

Who owns the Black experience?: Decolonizing theory & how the academy commodifies Black life

Lawyers for Korryn Gaines’ son file new claims against Baltimore police

From the Million Woman March to #Metoo: How movements created by and for Black women are appropriated

Heinous anti-blackness: Dozens of African girls found dead in Mediterranean Sea

She ain’t white girl pregnant: Black, queer & expecting in an anti-Black, anti-queer world

Decolonizing empathy: why our pain will never be enough to disarm white supremacy

We are not yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body

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