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‘As Long As They Don’t Kill Us, We Will Survive’: Brazil’s First Black Trans Lawmaker Resists Fear

‘As Long As They Don’t Kill Us, We Will Survive’: Brazil’s First Black Trans Lawmaker Resists Fear
SAO PAULO ― Erica Malunguinho, Brazil’s first black trans woman to be elected a state representative, walked through the Sao Paulo state legislat...

How Soul Food Has Become Separated From Its Black Roots

How Soul Food Has Become Separated From Its Black Roots
Late last year, tragedy struck Nashville, Tennessee: Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack was forced to close “indefinitely” after a car crashed into the ...

America’s Oldest HBCU Is Fighting For Survival

America’s Oldest HBCU Is Fighting For Survival
Nestled 45 minutes outside Philadelphia, the Cheyney University campus looks like any number of small colleges that dot the rural Northeast: rol...

Ava DuVernay Releases Teaser For Central Park Five Netflix Series ‘When They See Us’

Ava DuVernay Releases Teaser For Central Park Five Netflix Series ‘When They See Us’
  Ava DuVernay on Friday shared a first look at her new project for Netflix, “When They See Us,” a dramatized series centered on the infamous Cen...

Cardi B And Bruno Mars Sizzle At Taco Joint In ‘Please Me’ Music Video

Cardi B And Bruno Mars Sizzle At Taco Joint In ‘Please Me’ Music Video
Cardi B and Bruno Mars meet at a taco joint in their new music video for “Please Me” ― and things get spicy in a hurry.   As soon as the two l...

White Woman Calls Police On Black Man After His Dog ‘Humps’ Her Dog

White Woman Calls Police On Black Man After His Dog ‘Humps’ Her Dog
A dispute over one dog humping another prompted a woman to call the police on a black man in Massachusetts, according to dog owner Franklin Baxle...

Lynne Patton Says Trump Does Not See Color, Race: ‘What He Sees Is Success’

Lynne Patton Says Trump Does Not See Color, Race: ‘What He Sees Is Success’
Lynne Patton, the black Trump administration official who was attacked as a Republican prop during Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony, contin...

Toni Harris Becomes First Woman In History To Receive Non-Kicker Football Scholarship

Toni Harris Becomes First Woman In History To Receive Non-Kicker Football Scholarship
Toni Harris is tackling barriers left and right.   The football player just became the first woman in history to receive a non-kicker football s...

Marines Under Investigation After Making ‘Blackface’ Video

Marines Under Investigation After Making ‘Blackface’ Video
Two Marines stationed near San Diego are being investigated after posting a video that appears to show them in blackface.   In the footage, two ...

Dennis Rodman’s Letter To Donald Trump About Kim Jong Un Shows We’re In Strange Times

Dennis Rodman’s Letter To Donald Trump About Kim Jong Un Shows We’re In Strange Times
Dennis Rodman’s attempts at basketball diplomacy continue.   The NBA Hall of Famer on Wednesday shared a fawning letter he wrote to President D...

Michael Cohen Hearing Erupts In Argument Over Racism

Michael Cohen Hearing Erupts In Argument Over Racism
Tensions boiled over in an argument about racism during Wednesday’s testimony from the president’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen.   Th...

Don’t Forget Mark Meadows Made A Racist Birther Joke In 2012

Don’t Forget Mark Meadows Made A Racist Birther Joke In 2012
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) grew irate on Wednesday after a House colleague accused him of racism, demanding her remark be stricken from the recor...