African Americans
Tennessee offers inmates shorter sentences if they submit to sterilization
July 31, 2017This is the latest in a historical pattern of medical experimentation often targeting poor, mentally ill people of color.
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Domestic workers share stories today on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
July 31, 2017Despite being integral to the nation, Black women continue to make only 63 cents to every dollar that white men make.
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“Girls Trip”: A showcase of unapologetic Black womanhood in film
July 17, 2017Movies such as Girls Trip challenge the confines of the ways women are allowed to be funny—especially Black women.
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Can Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba succeed in Jackson, Miss.?
July 10, 2017Born of a radical father of the same name, the younger Lumumba must know the pitfalls that await him.
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Aesthetics meets politics in Josephine Baker tribute
June 23, 2017Daryl Brooks continues the Black Ensemble Theater's tradition of exploring the way that music and artists have given consciousness to the experience of racial oppression.
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