Race

A Black woman transforms conditioned silence into language: How Audre Lorde induced my rebirth

Black women are the most likely to be unarmed when killed by police, according to study

UCPD’s shooting of student in mental health crisis highlights the academy’s role in police brutality

White liberals stay predicting dystopias caused by whiteness—without doing anything about it

NYPD kills 34 year old Saheed Vassel after claiming they thought metal rod was a gun

Black Lives Matter activist arrested during anti-racism training after confrontation with white woman

Black Lives Matter Cincinnati changes its name, issues scathing critique of national BLM network

March For Our Lives and the gun control debate are leaving Black children behind

No charges, no surprise: After killing Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge police face mere disciplinary review

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?

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