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“This is why we are tired”: Racist remarks mar National Book Award ceremony

Officer Jason Flanery Killed 18 Year Old VonDerrit Myers Jr. Shooting Him 6 Times From Behind

We Speak Their Names: For the Black Trans Women Murdered This Year

The Kardashians aren’t just trashy, they’re dangerous

The Case for Black With a Capital B

Advancing Reproductive Justice for Black Women and Women of Color in Cleveland

Solange’s Bridal Afro Upsets Beauty Standards

The Worthless Black Woman

CAN RAPPING HARD BARS LAND YOU BEHIND THEM?

Misuse of a Grand Jury

[FERGUSON FORWARD] 101 Days Without Justice for Mike Brown

On Wayne Brady, Mental Illness, and the African American Community

Stakes Is High: Just Being a Conscious Rapper is Not Enough

‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Has a Lot of ‘Gay’ Male Sex, and That’s a Good Thing

Why so few white kids land in CPS — and why it matters

The last faces of American slavery: Stunning pictures of men and women who were born into slavery

Loyola University Chicago student Chan Wilson missing

WCG Walks Out on US Gov’t Representatives at the UN

Black Girls Only

Dr. Huxtable no more, Bill Cosby lost persona after 13 rape accusations

Confidence Men and ‘Prison Reform’

Everything wrong with the video of man ‘delivered from being gay’

Time Is ILLMATIC

Tracking the Events in the Wake of Michael Brown’s Shooting

Why Obama needs Loretta Lynch

Waiting for the Grand Jury’s Ruling: Tension Simmers After a Police Shooting

Missing Black Women Are Usually Ignored Until They’re Proven Worthy

I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from discrimination. I was wrong.

Cari Champion, Artie Lange, and the price of being a black woman in public

Young HBCU Alumni Are Changing the Face of Philanthropy

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