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Woman Who Recorded George Floyd’s Murder Receives Honorary Pulitzer Prize
“If it weren't for my video, the world wouldn't have known the truth,” Darnella Frazier said.
New Documentary Chronicles Historic Young Lords’ Occupation of Bronx Hospital
“Takeover” chronicles the Young Lords' collective struggle for quality, accessible health care.
Black Women Seek Out Black Obstetricians to Avoid Medical Racism
For Black women, the impact of systemic racism can show up starkly in childbirth.
Water Protectors Converge on Minnesota for Massive Demonstrations Against Line 3
Indigenous leaders have decried the Line 3 expansion as a brazen violation of treaty rights that endangers sacred land.
Anti-Asian Violence Didn’t Start or End With Trump’s White House
After the 2008 crisis, prosecutors ignored the big banks and baselessly tried to scapegoat a Chinese American business.
UK’s First Black Studies Professor Calls on African Diaspora to Unite
Radical scholar Kehinde Andrews is part of a broad movement calling for renewed internationalism and Pan-Africanism.
Veteran’s Mic Turned Off Mid-Speech for Honoring Black Origins of Memorial Day
The Memorial Day event organizers say they cut off the veteran’s speech on purpose because the history wasn’t relevant.
The Second Amendment Was Created to Arm White People to Control Black People
Author Carol Anderson says the right to bear arms "wasn’t about guns. It was about the fear of Black people.”
Robin D.G. Kelley: The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”
This history has never been “unknown.” U.S. society actively refuses to acknowledge state-sanctioned racist violence.
100th Anniversary of Tulsa Massacre Should Remind Us Why Reparations Are Needed
An estimated 300 African Americans were killed in one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.