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Why can’t we defend Blackness when a Black person does something wrong?

Black and Latinx queer people need safe spaces, too

Two women, 41 and 32, shot and killed in Chicago’s Washington Park

Why reproductive justice is essential to understanding gene editing

Second Emmett Till marker defaced in Mississippi

Memorial honoring Nabra Hassanen, slain Muslim teen, set on fire

How Trump’s anti-Black, anti-poor, and anti-LGBTQ administration affects marginalized people

Stop hoping “the shooter” isn’t Black.

How I am managing toxic relationships with Bill Cosby rape apologists

The system isn’t failing us because it isn’t ours

Feminist triumph in action thrillers has always been for and about white women

Juneteenth and our post-emancipation fight for liberation

White feminism doesn’t know what to do with Amber Rose

1 year after Pulse, the vulnerability (and strength) of queer people of color is more apparent than ever

More Than a Token: Parting reflections on being Black at the University of Chicago

The Case of Quilombo: Black Students Fight to Stay in Brazilian Universities

Yara Shahidi is headed to Harvard this fall

When white people enter a space, anti-Blackness always does too

Chicago teens sound off on Jason Whitlock, LeBron James, and racism in America

London experiences third terrorist attack to hit UK in three months

Baltimore 7th grader wins individual chess championsip

If Black innocence never exists to the state, how can passivism and perfect victimhood save us?

Man arrested for machete stabbing while yelling racial slurs

Keep your white friends and partners away from Black Pride events

Behind Amy Schumer’s ‘Get Out’ joke: The horrible legacy of claiming the Black phallus endangers white women

What you need to know about Trump’s proposed $9 billion budget slashes to public education

Liberation is a 3-step process: Broadening activism’s scope in the wake of the Movement for Black Lives

Revolutionary Poetry for Edward Crawford

When I, a Black person, was told I didn’t know enough about another culture to have opinions on slavery

Jeff Sessions is working to undo the work of anti-prison activists

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