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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Bold Rebuke of Trump’s America

Kendrick Lamar performing the Super Bowl LIX Half Time Show (Screenshot). BHM Our Voices: Perspectives on the Black Experience – Stories examining the issues, injustices,...

Open letter from advocates for unhoused people calls on Downtown shelter to stop kicking people out for ‘minor infractions’

Activist and community organizer Sam Schmidt and Howard Ramsey, currently living on the streets, both of the Our Streets Collective, leave Second Avenue Commons...

Supreme Court to consider whether local governments can make it a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available

Like poverty, homelessness in the U.S. is not race-neutral. Black Americans represent 13% of the population but comprise 21% of people living in poverty and...

Biden-Harris Administration unveils ambitious plans for equity and racial justice across federal agencies

**FILE** President Joe Biden (left) and Vice President Kamala Harris (Courtesy of Mark Mahoney) The Biden-Harris administration has unveiled its Equity Action Plans for federal agencies in...

Chicago mayor announces city’s termination of ShotSpotter contract

The city of Chicago will end its relationship with ShotSpotter after the summer ends, announced Mayor Brandon Johnson.  On Tuesday morning, the mayor released a...

As digital activists, teens of color turn to social media to fight for a more just world

Self-expression and storytelling are among the primary objectives that young aspiring activists seek to achieve online. FG Trade via Getty Images by Dominique Skye McDaniel, Kennesaw...

Use of ‘white privilege’ makes online discussions more polarized and less constructive

by Christopher Quarles, University of Michigan A wide variety of historical, economic and cultural forces combine to allow a larger percentage of whites to climb...

Criminal justice algorithms: Being race-neutral doesn’t mean race-blind

by Duncan Purves, University of Florida and Jeremy Davis, University of Florida Justice is supposed to be “blind.” But is race blindness always the best...

Equality or equity: Which is better?

Equality or Equity: Which Is Better? The concepts aren’t the same and don’t bring Black people the same result. by Hiram Jackson Black people, as well...

Cicely was young, Black and enslaved – her death during an epidemic in 1714 has lessons that resonate in today’s pandemic

by Nicole S. Maskiell, University of South Carolina What I believe to be the oldest surviving gravestone for a Black person in the Americas memorializes...

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