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‘Get Out’s Jordan Peele makes history as the first Black person to win Best Original Screenplay Oscar

Call me Akata: Reclaiming our birthright as Indigenous and African people born on American soil

#EbonyOwes agreement: Black writers’ and union diligence reverses magazine’s economic abuse

Comic: Seeing Black children flourish in ‘Black Panther’ excitement makes me beam

Like my native tongue, Wakanda bridges the cultural gap between my African ancestry and Black American life

Post ‘Black Panther’, Marvel announces ‘Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur’ animated series

After theater buyouts for kids to see ‘Black Panther,’ group organizes one for Black girls to see ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

New Mexico publication apologizes after political cartoon portraying immigrants as alley gangsters

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward signs new two book deal

Pre-K teacher rocks same beautiful hairstyle as skeptical student to prove she loved it

Why #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay was food to my Black woman soul

10 Black AF things to watch/read/listen to before ‘Black Panther’ drops

Rethinking and retooling the “wife school” people always expect Black women to attend

Majority white Vermont high school raises Black Lives Matter flag

Reggae star Shaggy raises 100 million Jamaican dollars for children’s hospital in Jamaica

Jemele Hill is finally out of SportsCenter after a year of controversies, joins The Undisputed

Comic: We know why y’all keep trying to distance yourselves from slavery

Wendy Williams wants society to let #MeToo go

Camila Cabello erases enslaved Africans’ contributions in call to support immigrants at the Grammys

Octavia Spencer reveals Jessica Chastain helped her make 500% more for her acting

Erykah Badu finding “good” in Hitler highlights the limits of Black empathy after slavery

The WSJ, The Root and BYP remind us that social-media-fueled inadequacy doesn’t have to be the norm

The Black barbershop is both toxic and intimate for cishet Black men

The question of Blackness: How conversations about Bruno Mars and Cardi B miss the mark

It’s more than just vulgar words: 45 denies people from Haiti, Belize and Samoa temporary work visas

Lupita Nyong’o is writing a children’s book tackling colorism & self-love for little Black girls

Pre-NOI Malcolm X and Redd Foxx’s misadventures to be explored in new comedic cartoon, ‘Little Red’

Woman convicted of murder for administering black market butt injections dies in prison

“I’m is talking right”: How the stigma around Black language holds us back from liberation

Serena Williams’ powerful Vogue interview on love & parenting highlights the dangers facing Black mothers

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