equality

First Lady: ‘U.S. is ready for a female president’

Duke dorm named after racist to be renamed

Texas reps accidentally support reparations for slavery

Here’s why 2014 should be another Freedom Summer

No more Washington Redskins? patent office cancels team trademark

Marissa Alexander trial delayed until December 1

Video: Morgan Freeman: ‘race doesn’t play a role in wealth distribution’

From Local to National Activism: 30 Black Men Consulting the White House

NYC building turns away black tenants, lawsuit filed

Tiffany & Co. sued for racial discrimination

Google admits to lack of diversity in staff

BYP 100 joins hundreds in protest of school-to-prison pipeline

One quarter of CPS’s budget spent at just three schools

Aunt of mother arrested for leaving kids in car during interview says ‘she was too proud to ask for help’

For third time, Senate GOPs block vote equal pay act

Transgender student sues university over on-campus housing denial

Mississippi legislators pass bill making it legal to discriminate against gays

Why Latino youth are unimpressed with voting

Report: Disparities in U.S. schools still a barrier for minorities

Long-time LGBT activist Vernita Gray dead at 65

Report: blacks, students with disabilities suspended from school at alarming rates

Report: Fewer black, Latino students admitted to NYC’s top schools

Black students at U of I hold ‘silent protest’

Arizona governor rejects anti-gay discrimination bill

Eric Holder is for same-sex marriage and black pastors want him impeached because of that

NFL may enact a 15-yard penalty for racial slurs on the field

Kentucky Senate OKs revised voting rights bill

Members of NAACP St. Paul Youth & Collegiate Branch hold protest against school-to-prison pipeline

Alabama high school’s attempt to ban same-sex prom couples fails

BYP Memo: Equal Protection? Race and Young People’s Attitudes Toward the Legal System

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