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Spotlighting Women of Color on Forbes’ “Most Powerful Women” List

Kiera Wilmot Speaks Out On Science Experiment Arrest, Aftermath

Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

Bronx “Ghetto” Bus Tour Shut Down After Outrage

Spelman Parents Outraged After Being Locked Out of Graduation for Tardiness

Shay-la Taylor Was in Labor While Oklahoma Tornado Destroyed Hospital

WATCH: 9 Year-Old Asean Johnson Captivates School Closing Protesters w/ Passionate Speech

REPORT: 400,000 Innocent Black and Latino New Yorkers ‘Stopped and Frisked’ in 2012

George Zimmerman’s Attorney Wants to Reference Trayvon Martin’s Drug Use in Court

Chicago School Board Votes to Close 50 Schools; Largest School Closure in City’s History

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Kimeco “Allegra” Roberson about the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

WATCH: Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) Releases PSA Condemning NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy

Dillard U. President: Why Did Dr. Dre Donate $35 Million to USC, and Not a Black College?

Chelesa Fearce Overcomes Homelessness; Will Start College as a Junior at Spelman

Lose Scholarship or Complete Racist Assignment: Which Would You Choose?

To All Afraid of the ‘Ghetto’ Continued

18 Year-Old Eesha Khare Invents Device that Charges Cell Phones in 30 Seconds

Does Obama Unfairly Hold African Americans to a Different Standard?

Dear Thurgood Marshall Jr, Why Are You On The Board Of Directors For CCA?

Nat. Science Foundation Awards Clemson $5 Mill Grant to Advance Blacks in Computer Science

Bronx Bus Tour Shows NYC Tourists What a “Real Ghetto” Looks Like

Dozens Arrested in Chicago School Closing Protests

If We the New Slaves, When Are We Gonna Get Free?

14 Year-Old D’Asia Robinson Killed by Stray Bullet While Riding City Bus

Michelle Obama at Bowie State: Too many young people “fantasize about being a baller or a rapper”

Kanye West’s “New Slaves” Rails Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

Murder of Mark Carson in NY’s Greenwich Village Being Investigated as Antigay Hate Crime

Pres. Obama’s Morehouse Commencement Speech Raises Eyebrows

Why Did You (Really) Get Married?

“I Make HIV Look Soo Good”: The Politics of Disease, Stigma, and Self-Worth

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