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Sixteen-year-old girl shot and killed by Denver police

J. Cole is offering his childhood home rent-free to single mothers

The Women of #BlackLivesMatter

Clergy to Florida Police: #UseMeInstead

Report: 100% of Black Women Interviewed in STEM Study Experienced Gender and Racial Bias

Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo Will Produce Hurricane Katrina Drama

Watch: Viola Davis takes down the house at the SAG awards

There is no amount of respectability that can bend a gun’s barrel

In rare move, Jay Z releases public statement on policy changes in New York

All #BlackLivesMatter: The Death of Lamia Beard

Troop Oakland: Meet the Radical Brownies

Watch: State of the Black Union

Imminent Supreme Court ruling could make it easier to deny someone housing based on race

Terrifying video shows police officer shooting an unarmed man with his hands up

Black McDonald’s workers file civil rights lawsuit for firings

What it’s like to lose your home to gentrification

How do you ask someone about their race?

North Miami police will no longer use black men’s mug shots as target practice

Justice Department lawyers will recommend no civil rights charges against Darren Wilson

President Obama’s State of the Union speech first to say transgender, but so what?

Larry Wilmore on Bill Cosby rape allegations: ‘That ************ did it’

#SOBU: Black Lives Matter to release the State of the Black Union

What “lackluster” #LightGirls was missing

Obama dropped the mic during the State of the Union

Obama’s State of the Union proposals are super popular with everyone except Congress

Anthony Mackie: “People are just tired of being bombarded with race right now”

I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along with white people

Police in St. Louis admit to beating wrong black man

A Respected MC’s Thoughts On MLK

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