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Coates’ New York Times bestseller will be adapted into a multimedia performance, with excerpted monologues, video projections, and a score by the jazz musician Jason Moran.

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The first lady was responding to Beyonce’s recent announcement of four $25,000 scholarships for young women at four U.S. colleges, including two HBCUs, Howard University and Spelman College.

The WPC provides an opportunity for participants to discuss how white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression affects daily life while gaining strategies for addressing issues of privilege and oppression.

From: LittleThings Roger Lopez, a Texas native, used to spend his days roaming the streets trying to figure out where he would sleep that night. He was like many other homeless people in America, just trying to survive the night in hopes to one day create a better life for himself. One day, Roger had […]

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Evin Cosby ends the Facebook missive by saying that her family helped her, a single mom, raise her children, and teaches them family values. “He loves and respects women.”

The Congressional Black Caucus Africa Taskforce will host a forum about ending and preventing famine in Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan on April 26.

Milwaukee County Jail inmate Terrill Thomas was cut off from water for seven days while in a solitary confinement cell before dying of dehydration, said prosecutors Monday.

The tennis superstar calls out Ilie Nastase on social media for comments about her unborn child's color.

Seven African-Americans --- who said they were forced to arm wrestle their White female colleagues --- will join a pending racial discrimination lawsuit against the controversial network, said a new report.

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The city of New Orleans removed a White supremacist monument overnight Monday, with Mayor Mitch Landrieu acknowledging the take down as a step toward a better future.

A visual artist is putting a face (and voice) to what it means to be Black and Muslim. Bobby Rogers is putting a spotlight on a particularly complicated intersection of American society. It was a very personal piece of work for him, and he wanted to make sure it was right before he released it […]

The former president takes time to give young men an uplifting word ahead of his first post-presidential speech.