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I’m not bipolar, I’m just traumatized: What I learned about Black womanhood from my misdiagnosis

Xenophobic border patrol agent detains two women after hearing them speak Spanish

Oakland’s “BBQing While Black” gathers hundreds to clap-back at #BBQBecky

“Why can’t we just let Black people enjoy something?”

Black mental health care needs to involve more than therapy

Asian Americans increasingly on the white side of the class divide, rate the economy accordingly

3 Black Airbnb guests swarmed after white woman calls police when seeing them check out

In an anti-Black capitalist society, the guilt of Black “success” is almost unavoidable

Bill that would mandate 10 years for injuring police introduced to Congress

3 white men arrested after lynching style murder of 2 Black men in Oklahoma City

I don’t want as many “chances” to f*ck up as Kanye

Black Somali Muslim woman killed after family calls police for help during her mental health crisis

VIDEO: Former NFL player Desmond Marrow assaulted by cops after racial attack, he says

Black woman violently arrested at Waffle House draws calls for protests

Waffle House, Starbucks, and the unalterable anti-Black, patriarchal violence of newsworthiness

Stop misusing “people of color” to erase issues specific to Black people

Sandra Bland documentary to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Weed legalization highlights how progressive policies deceptively re-entrench anti-Black dynamics

New report details how to support Black women in their political, economic and social roles

Starbucks CEO apologizes to Black men arrested in Philly store, Black police commissioner defends arrest

Black Mamas Matter Alliance launches first national Black maternal health week

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

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