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by Amber Butts

Making History Visible: The Practice of Remembering

Why Black pain will never disarm white supremacy

Black Resistance: Examining the “1st” Free Black Town in the Americas

Forbidden Laughter: The History of Laughing Barrels

The Black Lunatic

Solidarity in translation: Anti-Blackness from the U.S to France

Africa must decolonise the violent patriarchy solidified by white colonialism

It took a global pandemic, but the original spirit of Pride is finally being honored

Black gun ownership as resistance against white terrorism

Black conspiracy and skepticism persist because we believe the evidence of our experience

Now is an opportunity for Black folks to reimagine what constitutes loss

The endless appropriation of MLK and white supremacy’s need to rewrite historical narratives

Mental health treatment is a Black tradition, white people just took credit for it

The business of prisons and the laws that make sure they exist

“Laughing barrels” and the defiant spirit of Black laughter

How Audre Lorde taught me to love myself and my community

100 years after Chicago’s Red Summer race riots, the lasting legacy of segregation is crystal clear

How targeting Ilhan Omar instead of white supremacy furthered both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia

Moving to South Africa meant my race was different, but not the realities of racism

Palestinian Nayib Bukele wins El Salvador’s 2019 presidential election

Angola removes colonial-era law that prohibited homosexuality

Zora Neale Hurston helped create 1st mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a painted white one

Voting rights restored to former felons in Florida, but lawmakers may add legal hurdles

France’s investigation into attack that prompted the Rwandan genocide is finally ended

Why do so many others want to claim Blackness if it means oppression?

Finding our way back to the religions stolen from our ancestors

What Black Brits want African Americans to know about race and racism in the U.K.

Serial killer says he killed 90 women. It is possible because they were all sex workers and women of color

Founder of notorious private military company Blackwater looking to extract minerals from war-torn Afghanistan

Indigenous women sue Canada & its health authorities over forced sterilizations as recent as 2017

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