Race

Somali-American Muslim workers receive $1.5 settlement after religious discrimination by meat plant

US refugee cap to be reduced to 30,000 in 2019, lowest level in 40 years

On embodying darkness

Lawyer: Publicizing marijuana found in home of Black man killed by Dallas cop is a “smear”

10 body affirmations for Black girls when the world tells us we’re too much

Name of Dallas cop who killed Black man after claiming she mistook his home for hers revealed

My queerness won’t let me give up on my queerphobic Black parents

It’s not just We Got Y’all: When non-profits frame Black youth as deprived & in need of saviors

AFROPUNK founding editor-in-chief quits company, citing “lies, gaslighting, exploitation”

Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum targeted by racist robocalls after GOP challenger’s monkey comments

Louisiana State Police accused of circulating white supremacist propaganda in lawsuit

Kaepernick’s case against the NFL moving forward after arbitrator denies summary judgment request

Cop sentenced to 15 years in killing Black teen does not prove body cameras are working

Trump’s Justice Dept supports Asian-American in suing Harvard over affirmative action

Black academics need to stop reproducing anti-Black notions of exceptionalism

Jemele Hill’s $6 million buyout part of ESPN’s efforts to avoid race and gender in sports

Cop who killed Terence Crutcher teaching class on “Surviving the Aftermath” to Tulsa officers

After assault on Black patrons by Asian workers at Flatbush nail salon, protesters call for boycotts

‘The Sinner’ and why white killers are imagined as victims easier than the Black & killed

I keep writing about white women’s fragility and dog whistle aggression because they keep proving my point

Court rules rapper’s lyrics, remake of N.W.A.’s “F– the Police”, is threat against cops on appeal

Inmates in at least 17 states begin massive labor strike, calling conditions modern-day slavery

White farmers raise alarms after South Africa begins redistributing land to Blacks

Mexico’s first studio-driven fiction film with an all Black cast is criticized for anti-Black representation

Why the NYC specialized high school exam is discriminatory and must be terminated.

Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people is at a crisis point, according to the Prison Policy Initiative

Our hair is a map to freedom: What I learned about resistance from the “1st” free Black town in the Americas

John Legend calls for the end of racist non-unanimous jury convictions in Louisiana

What I learned about the work it takes to protect children from anti-Blackness from being homeschooled

“Unite the Right” white supremacist rally vastly outnumbered by counter-protesters

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