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The New York Times staff could no longer hold their tongues. Over the years, the Times’ opinion section has run questionable — and sometimes downright
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Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets this week in every state with demands to abolish the police by defunding their departments. While
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Amid the ongoing peaceful protests and powerful demonstrations being held across the country to combat police brutality, images of protestors envelope
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Friday’s Lunar Eclipse Is A Sign Of Revolution
This Friday’s full moon is no ordinary full moon. Traditionally coinciding with wild strawberry season, June’s is known as a full strawberry mo
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19 Black Influencers That You Should Be Following
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Welcome To Hell, Donald & Melania Trump Will Be Your Guides
There are several places rumored to be entrances to the underworld, like the fiery crater that has been burning in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert for over
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The Movement To Defund The Police Is Getting Stronger — Here̵...
Long before a Minneapolis police officer pinned his knee to George Floyd’s neck, slowly cutting off his air supply until he was dead, American cops were
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PSA: You Can Use Your Sephora Points To Support The Black LGBTQ+ ...
Sephora just gave shoppers a new way to support the Black community through a new amendment to its Insider Rewards Program. Throughout the month of June, i
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All Four Officers Will Be Charged In George Floyd’s Killing...
Over a week after the police killing of George Floyd and several days after manslaughter charges were brought against former office Derek Chauvin, Minneapo
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Fashion Brands Lay Out Plans To Support The Black Community
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Frank Rizzo’s Statue Was An Ode To White Supremacy — & It N...
While the city slept, crews arrived to quietly take down the statue of Frank Rizzo from Philadelphia’s Municipal Services Building. The statue of the for
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The same Missouri city where the death of a black teenager sparked weeks of nationwide protest has just elected Ella Jones, its first woman and first black
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It was a striking image, even if the subject’s pose and attire were familiar: Gorgeously dressed in bright white sneakers and a flowing blue gown, the yo
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In a head-spinning piece of political propaganda, President Donald Trump delivered a speech in the Rose Garden yesterday, in which he vowed to send the mil
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A Kentucky man was shot and killed by police early Monday morning outside of a supermarket in Louisville. David McAtee, 53, a chef and the owner of Yaya’
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The idea that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation is a new-ish one. The concept of intergenerational trauma was first recognized around
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Nurses across the country are grappling with their desire to make their voices heard at social justice rallies across the country, the urge to help protest
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In New York City, police slammed people to the ground, shot pepper spray indiscriminately, and wielded nightsticks during a chaotic weekend of protests ign
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As protesters took to the streets of Washington D.C. on Sunday night to demonstrate against the recent deaths of unarmed Black men and women, the exterior
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