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Adriana Smith’s Case Isn’t Fiction — It’s Forced Pregnancy In Real Time

Black History Month 2025

Black Ownership Is The Future Beyond DEI. These Are The Black Leaders Taking ...

Black History Month 2025

In War On DEI, Law Is Being Used As A Weapon — These Leaders Are Fighting Back

Trump’s Inauguration Day Is Also MLK Day. The Contradiction Is As...

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday that Coretta Scott King worked tirelessly to bring to fruition. A day to remember the life and legacy of a m

The Tyranny Of A Trump Presidency Is Just Beginning. Now Is Not T...

Exit poll results for the U.S. presidential election are in and, unsurprisingly, Black people proved we show up for the Democratic Party… again. Unfortun

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How Do We Survive Another 4 Years Of Donald Trump? Together

Donald Trump is the next President-Elect of the United States. The same Donald Trump who, during his first administration, issued racist immigration bans,

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Will Hail Mary Efforts In Swing States Make A Difference For Kama...

Election Day is less than one week away, and no one knows that more than swing state voters. As a Georgia resident myself with a mailbox full of voting rem

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Will Nostalgia For The Obama Era Help — Or Hurt — Kamala Harris?

Earlier this week, a Detroit rally for Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign opened up with two household names: Eminem and Barack Obama. When the Detroit

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Kamala Harris Has A Plan for Black Men: Here’s What They Have To ...

This past week, Vice President Harris revealed her specific policy package projected to serve Black men. The nine-page document lays out economic, educatio

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Kamala Harris Isn’t Playing by The Rules On Her Media Tour — That...

With only a month before the 2024 election, Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for President, is on quite the media tour as she talks to voters on a ran

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JD Vance Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s Vice-Presidential nominee, JD Vance, made his first major showing for the campaign at the U.S. VP debate last night. It was unlike anythin

What Does Justice for Marcellus Williams Look Like? Abolishing Th...

Marcellus “Khalifa” Williams served more than twenty years on death row for the murder of Felicia Ann Gayle but always maintained his innocence, and ap

Banning Books Is Just The Beginning. The Scary Future Ahead If Pr...

Justice has long been considered dangerous in America. This week, September 22nd through the 28th, is Banned Books Week, a decades-long movement to end cen

Trump’s Anti-Haitian Rhetoric Is No Laughing Matter

Whether you watched last week’s presidential debate or not, you’ve likely heard about Donald Trump’s obsession with false allegations of Haitian immi

Kamala Harris Won The Debate, But It Was A Spectacle In Which Per...

Brea Baker is a writer, organizer and author of Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership. In her opinio

Celebrity Endorsements Are Taking Over The Election, Proving We’v...

An eclectic yet passionate celebrity circus has formed around Donald J. Trump. Model, former women’s rights activist, and reality TV star Amber Rose took

Enough Memes, Let’s Talk Policy: Abortion Rights Took Center Stag...

Brea Baker is a writer, organizer and author of Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership. In her opinio

Pressuring Kamala Harris To Be More Progressive Is Good, Actually

Brea Baker is a writer, organizer and author of Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership. In her opinio

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Kamala Harris Can Win. Stop Saying She’s “Unelectable.”

In a statement posted to X (formerly Twitter) that sent shockwaves through our timelines Sunday, President Biden ended his second presidential campaign cit

Black Feminists Are Standing Up For Palestinians — No Matter The ...

Brea Baker is a writer and organizer. In this op-ed, she shares her perspective on the history and current movement of Black feminist support for Palestine

This Black Family’s Newborn Was Taken By CPS — It’s Time For Repr...

March 21st, 2023 was a cool spring day in the Desoto suburb of Dallas, Texas. Supported by a doula and their two older children, Temecia and Rodney Jackson

The Far Right Is Trying To Ban The Truth — Here’s What We Can Do ...

Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning for Black His

Black Women Have BEEN On The Frontlines Of The Abortion Rights Fi...

On Friday June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, restricting abortion access across the country. That’s the painful reality. I’m not here to fearmo

On Ketanji Brown Jackson, ‘Making History,’ And The Expense Of Bl...

Update: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court as the first Black woman sitting on the nation’s highest court. Jackson

What Southern Black Women Can Teach Us (And The Country) About Ou...

It was Angela Davis who reminded us that “when Black women win victories, it’s a boost for virtually every segment of society.” It says a lot that Dr

It’s Time To Talk About Kamala Harris, Colorism & Who Gets To Be ...

The inauguration of VP-elect Harris is a beautiful thing for Black women, but we can’t ignore which of us are amplified in America and what that says abo