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Don’t touch our hair: In hilarious online game ‘Hair Nah’, Black folk’s hair is off limits

Actress Jessica De Gouw still believes WGN’s canceled ‘Underground’ tells a complete story

Erica Garner in a coma following asthma-induced heart attack

Kendrick Lamar fuels rumors he is working on Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ soundtrack

New York Times report reveals Vice Media swam in a culture of racism and sexism

Harvard announces Gullah language course as part of its African Language Program

PEN announces 2018 longlist candidates, here are the nominees of color!

Viola Davis to produce docuseries exploring police brutality cases on TV One

Trump celebrates the passage of oppressive tax bill, liberals respond

CDC disputes widespread ‘word ban’ reports

Racism is killing Black babies and their mothers, says NPR study

Twitter bans some white supremacists from their platform, but efforts still feel hollow

Puerto Rico governor orders review of Hurricane Maria death toll following discrepencies

Dennis Rodman wants to be America’s North Korea peace envoy because politics can’t get any weirder

FCC reverses net neutrality rules, but open internet advocates anticipate congressional, court, and user resistance

Fox News’ race baiting judge Jeanine Pirro is being sued by Deray Mckesson

Omarosa exit leaves Trump administration without a “token” Black diversity marker

Black voters ensure narrow margin of victory for Democratic Party in Alabama

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

White people aren’t owed your sympathy: Keaton Jones and his racist family scams 60K over the weekend

15-year-old girl who declined a grown man’s advances ID’d him as her shooter before her death

CVS and Aetna complete mega-merger, prompting fears of limiting customer choice

Lena Waithe set to join ‘Dear White People’ in Season 2

Lubiana Himid is the first Black woman artist to win England’s prestigious Turner Prize

Terry Crews indicts men in perpetuating a culture of sexual harassment

Golden Krust CEO and president Lowell Hawthorne found dead by suicide, with disputed motives

Actor Bambadjan Bamba reveals undocumented status: ‘We just can’t be scared anymore’

North Korea performs intercontinental missile test after the U.S. names it a sponsor of terrorism

SZA leads women Grammy nominees with 5, dripping Black Girl Magic everywhere

Brave 10-year-old Ronyde Christina Ponthieux records video plea to save Haitian protected status

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