Race

Hulu documentary ‘Minding the Gap’ powerfully explores the effect of toxic masculinity on boys

“Race is a factor in everything”: Mass. progressive challenger Ayanna Pressley defends against charges of “ID politics”

New Orleans judge is the latest to strike down money bail after class-action suit

Black Lives Matter protestors crash wedding of officer who murdered Stephon Clark

American history classes are actually worsening kids’ understanding of America

You are worth more than what you did today despite what anti-Black capitalism says

Reclaiming my imagination: a story of a Black nerd who once hated summer reading

Florida police chief allegedly ordered false arrests for random Black people to improve stats

Beyond representation: Visibility in media won’t save us

Canada is using DNA testing sites to target immigrants for deportation

Philadelphia ends contract with ICE following protests

The “positive outcome” of the Starbucks arrest won’t save us because it didn’t save Chikesia Clemons

I thought my transness would betray my Blackness. I was wrong.

Missing pages of Malcolm X’s autobiography purchased by the Schomburg Center at NY auction

String of Black LGBTQ+ murders sparks fear of serial killer in Central Florida community

Oakland mourns after 18-year-old Nia Wilson is killed on BART subway station by alleged white supremacist

Letter to my Black mother who wants me to forgive the world when I saw it try to kill her

Florida white man kills Black dad over parking space, won’t be arrested because of “Stand Your Ground”

95 bodies—how sanitizing slavery keeps America’s hands clean

Remains of 95 Black “convict lease laborers” who were basically post-Civil War slaves found in Texas

The 2018 Black Muslim Psychology Conference is coming to Philadelphia!

Police point gun at Black teens, arrest them after white couple lies about them having weapons

Cornel West sparks spirited discussion about democracy at Dartmouth on 25th anniversary of ‘Race Matters’

Black youth need more than public health strategies that read sexuality as diseased and immoral

‘Little Apple’ web series follows Black girl superhero fighting against racism in Harlem

I am an organizer and sometimes my PTSD makes Black Liberation feel impossible

Social media calls out France’s racism, islamophobia after 2018 World Cup win

Chicago erupts in protest following the shooting of a Black man by Chicago PD

Poet Simone John talks her book ‘Testify’ and Sandra Bland’s legacy on the anniversary of her death in AAIHS interview

The McClure Twins’ racist dad and why seeing Black kids with white caretakers terrifies me

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