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Dallas school police use taser and handcuffs to restrain 7-year-old student with special needs

Chicago man charged after punching Black woman security guard, Zoa Stigler, on camera

Betty Shelby Found Not Guilty For Fatal Shooting of Terence Crutcher

Roger Ailes, FOX News Co-Founder, Dies at 77

Kids in Flint will get aid to prevent lead poisoning, but only if they didn’t move away

Black students given detention for wearing box braids

18yo graduates from Howard, heads to UC-Davis for Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

Adam Jones donates $20,000 to Negro League Baseball Museum after being targeted with racist heckling

Sandra Bland’s family critical of Texas act named in her honor

JetBlue kicks Black family off plane because of birthday cake

EVENT: Solidarity Economy Organizing in a Moment of Resistance

Cincinnati school releases bullying video of 8-year-old boy who died by suicide

Richard Spencer leads white supremacist march with lit torches to protect Confederate statue

Illinois Gov. Rauner Booed At Chicago State Commencement

Florida NAACP Calls For Bethune-Cookman President’s Resignation

Lawsuit claims Howard University mishandled multiple instances of rape and sexual assault

14-Year-Old graduates college with a degree in Physics

Yes, Black liberals commodify Black Lives Matter too and it’s a major problem

99% of students arrested in New York public schools are Black and Latinx

15-Year-Old snags NBA partnership for his bowtie company

Betsy DeVos booed during commencement at Bethune-Cookman

Trump fires FBI Director James Comey because he can apparently do that

California bar celebrated Cinco de Mayo with fake border wall and green cards

Ohio teacher fired after dragging toddler down hallway

Phoenix high school students launch #CopsOuttaCampus to remove officers from schools

Brenda Bostick, transgender woman, dies one week after being beaten in New York

Bresha Meadows, 15yo charged with killing her allegedly abusive father, will remain in custody

Boko Haram Frees 82 Schoolgirls From 2014 Capture

Why seeing the murder of Ashanti Hunter as anti-Black violence does not distract us from fighting for Black men and boys

Why The #BlackAndTraveling Movement Must Confront Its Classism

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