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May We Always Cherish the Freedom Fighters of Pretoria High School for Girls

#JustSaySorry Campaign Lights up Social Media for Sexual Assault Survivors

The 2016 Olympics Were A Showcase For Young Black Women’s Excellence

Black Girl Magic and the 2016 Olympics: The Water and Oil of Black Athleticism

Women Jailed at a Faster Rate than Men, Two-Thirds are Women of Color

An Angela Davis Biopic Is On The Way And The Timing Is Perfect

BlacQurl Fosters Space for Black Women Creatives & Critics

5 Ways To Stop Harming Black Women Today

We Must Offer Black Women The Same Protections We Offer White Women

Why We Should Celebrate #LoudBlackGirls

On Being Biracial In The Movement For Black Lives

First Black Woman Graduates Top of Class From Oldest Dentistry School

Black Women: Most Educated Demographic, Still Underpaid in Workforce

Poet Beautifully Details Black Women’s Struggles At PWI’s

On The Blatant Racism of Garrison’s Political Cartoon of Michelle Obama

National #SayHerName Day: Acknowledging Injustice Against Black Women, Girls, and Femmes

Jean-Louis’ Images are a Reminder of the Beauty and Power of Black Hair

In New Johns Hopkins Study, Black Women’s Hair Can’t Win For Losing

Why I Wish “The Mindy Project” Was Cancelled

Shea Moisture’s First Commercial Tackles the Implicit Racism of Beauty Aisles

8 Black Women Graduate with PhD from Indiana University in May

Black Girls Rock! Pushes Back Against Erasure Of Black Women On TV

Kelly Rowland’s New Makeup Line Is For Us Highly Melanated Folks

How To Get Away with Murder and Its Complicated Representation of Blackness

Mya Taylor is the First Out Trans Actress to Win Major Film Award

Notre Dame Sees Its First Black Valedictorian

It’s More Than A Head Wrap For US

Daniel Holtzclaw Sentenced to 263 Years in Prison

What Amandla Stenberg Means to Black Millennials

Locs and Twisted Hairstyles Have Been Approved for Women in the Marines

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