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Hawaiian Rep. Beth Fukumoto’s Departure from GOP Raises Questions About Millennials and the Republican Party

Rival Parents Yell ‘Go Back To Mexico’ To Fourth Grade Robotics Champs

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Why I’m tired of white gay men telling queer stories

8-Year-Old Writes Best Seller About Dealing With Annoying Little Brothers

Black Family Forced To Leave New Home After Burglary And Racist Graffiti

10 Reasons Donald Trump Needs To Keep His Hands Off Young People’s Health Coverage

Chance the Rapper Touches On Black Mental Health In Complex Cover Story

With Almost No Black and Latinx Employees, Mark Zuckerberg Lectures On Diversity in Silicon Valley

Four Signs That You Might Subscribe to the Politics of Respectability

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Marvel Highlights Queer Latina Superhero And Hires Queer Latina Writer To Do It

Meet Chicago’s First Transgender Filipina Bakery Owner

The Kalief Browder Docuseries Builds a Clear Case for Prison Abolition

Put Your Mind – and Money – Into Supporting Black Women

That Meeting Between Trump’s White House and HBCU Presidents Was Doomed Before It Began

How our unhealthy understandings of accountability promote a race to the bottom

Chyna Doll Dupree, Transgender Woman, Killed In New Orleans

Interview With Hari Ziyad: Finding Visibility and De-centering Whiteness

What does prison abolition mean to the mother whose son has been decapitated?

Savannah State Makes History As First HBCU To Win National Cheer Award

Netflix Drops Trailer To ‘Burning Sands’, Movie About Hazing in Black Fraternities

Keke Collier, Black, Transgender Woman, Killed In Chicago

D.C. Teacher Explains How The Famous ‘Du-Rag Lesson’ Happened

Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, And The Normalization of Slave Rape Narratives

Producer Jahaan Sweet Speaks Black Art and the Joke that Helped Him Graduate from Juilliard

Russell Simmons Leads ‘Today I Am Muslim, too’ Rally

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