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What does it mean to have Amandla Stenberg, a 17-year-old Black girl, come out as bisexual on Snapchat?  Or continually speak up in Hollywood for blackness? For Stenberg it means she’s no longer trying to conform into categories that don’t fit her. For the rest of us, it means we might be able to do […]

In a recent interview on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, the rapper discusses politics and his support for a Hillary Clinton candidacy. However, he is drawing criticism for his comments on the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality.

The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland this summer is finally, in some measure, being held accountable for his actions.

The college that placed a professor on leave for wearing a Hijab in December has now issued a “Notice of Recommendation to Initiate Termination-for-Cause Proceedings” against the woman. Larycia Hawkins, Associate Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College, was put on administrative leave “to explore significant questions regarding the theological implications of her recent public […]

A black lesbian activist in the UK is showing accolades can’t rectify colonial histories.

One coffee shop is serving diversity to the comic book scene. Philadelphia’s Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse is the first black-woman owned coffee shop on the East Coast.

I’d left the hospital a few days before 2015 New Year’s following an overdose. If you’ve ever been hospitalized, you know that leaving doesn’t make you magically well or even wholly interested in living. I wasn’t.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is hoping to provide new policing procedures as the city’s law enforcement agency continues to find itself under public scrutiny.

2015 was a year of anger and frustration on the political front. It was a year when more innocent Black lives were lost due to police violence. It was also a year where a blatant disrespect for blackness was manifested through the repeated instances of cultural appropriation in the media i.e. Rachel Dolezal and Kylie […]

A new ruling in Minneapolis has barred three Black Lives Matter activists from demonstrating at the Mall of America this holiday season.

Recently, Univision host of the “Al Punto” show, Jorge Ramos, sat down to interview Star Wars: The Force Awakens actors Oscar Isaac and Lupita Nyong’o about their roles in the hit movie.  Both actors identify as Latin but feedback on the interview suggested that anti-blackness in the Latin@ communities is still alive and well and aimed specifically at […]

In a new London theatre production of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger is going to be played by a black woman, and J.K. Rowling couldn’t be any happier.