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Chicago activists accuse police of negligence as Black girls and women continue disappearing

Over 2,000 activists arrested nationwide as part of MLK-inspired Poor People’s Campaign’s “moral revival”

When is it #TimesUp for white women who don’t recognize Black women’s boundaries?

Poetry reading is up in America, but there’s still more work to be done to sustain readers

My mother, my Black feminist role model, is more than her motherhood

Urban planning pioneer Toni Griffin wins award after subverting rules to highlight segregation

Watch: Kofi Siriboe’s new documentary leads a necessary discussion about Black mental health

Supreme Court: Colorodo shop can’t be forced to serve gay couple, but ruling may not apply to similar cases

Time explores the history of a Nazi concentration camp symbol that was repurposed for Pride

Pusha-T’s second diss of Drake takes feud to new levels, with some calling it a low blow

Washington Magazine’s “I’m Not a Tourist” campaign featuring D.C. gentrifiers sparks backlash

Betsy DeVos says schools can call ICE on undocumented students, activists push back

Non-profit honoring Kanye’s mother to change name after beef with Kim Kardashian

Activists stall vote on funding Chicago police academy, citing “misplaced priorities”

NFL announces new fine for players who “take a knee,” players push back

You ain’t responsible for protecting your fave from critique

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

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

‘MTV Shuga’ is a messy millennial edutainment series educating African youth about sexual health

16 Black actresses protest anti-Blackness in the industry at Cannes Film Festival

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

North Carolina educators are the latest to protest in nationwide “Teacher Revolt”

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

Spike Lee receives standing ovation for “BlacKkKlansman” in triumphant return to Cannes

Masturbation as resistance, because I deserve to cum

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians protesting US Embassy move to Jerusalem

When your mother is your first abuser

Tina Knowles reveals she put her daughters in counseling at an early age

NBA winner Jacqueline Woodson releases excerpt from new book, “Harbor Me”

Janelle Monáe and the road to ‘Dirty Computer’

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