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Tucker Carlson Is Out at Fox News
The Fox host has pushed the white nationalist “replacement” theory and decried “anti-white mania.”
By Charlotte Klein
Ralph Yarl’s Accomplishments Didn’t Protect Him From Getting Shot
“Ralph Yarl’s life is valuable because he is human. That should be enough.”
By Isabel Bekele
Some Neighborhoods Are Hotter Thanks to Racist Housing Policies
The difference in summer temperatures can be up to 20 degrees!
By Annie Evans and Cameron Katz
Protesters Call for Charges After Kansas City Teen Shot in Head
Ralph Yarl, 16, shot twice after ringing the wrong doorbell, has been released from the hospital.
By Lex McMenamin
Their Parents Were Locked Up for Years for Selling Weed
One $20 transaction put a father in prison for more than a decade.
By Jacqui Germain
6 Civil Rights Activists Who Changed History
"Try and tell people who they are, what they are, where they have been."
By Kanyinsola Oye
Harvard Police Searched 4 Black Students' Dorm at Gunpoint Over Hoax
“We felt our lives were in danger. We are traumatized.”
By Lex McMenamin
Angel Reese, Angela Bassett, and the Unfair Standards of 'Professionalism'
Whether at work or school, society rushes to dismiss Black women as unprofessional.
By Leah Goodridge and Olayemi Olurin
In Defense of the Bayou Barbie: Angel Reese Shouldn’t Apologize
Why are Black women always expected to win humbly and lose graciously?
By Mikeisha Daché Vaughn
Why This Iconic Book About Black Radicalism Still Speaks to Us
Robin D.G. Kelley’s ‘Freedom Dreams’ is finding itself in the hands of a new generation.
By Kandist Mallett
The Most-Wanted Black Woman in America Before Angela Davis
Civil rights activist Mae Mallory was framed by the FBI.
By Ashley D. Farmer
How Black Students Got a Quality Education in the Jim Crow South
The Rosenwald Schools served hundreds of thousands of Black students.
By Mary Retta
The Supreme Court May Radically Reshape Colleges This Year
Both in terms of who can attend and the financial burdens it comes with.
By Braxton Brewington
Florida College Students Walk Out Over DeSantis Policies
“He knows that attacking trans people will make him popular with his party."
By Lex McMenamin
The ‘Divine Nine’ Helped Shape Civil Rights History
These all-Black sororities and fraternities played a role in pivotal social movements.
By Eric L. Ewing and Kate Doak-Keszler
What Would Class-Based Affirmative Action Look Like?
The goal is to increase the number of low-income students in higher education.
By Zachariah Sippy
A Brief Timeline of School Segregation in the US
From the end of the Civil War to today
By Jameelah Nasheed
These Supreme Court Cases Could End Affirmative Action at Colleges
Here’s what that would look like.
By Tristin Brown
This TikToker Summed Up The Bachelor’s Racism & Fatphobia in 1 Minute
Brittany Tilander talks to Teen Vogue about the state of The Bachelor series and why she spoke up on TikTok.
By Catherine Mhloyi
How Black History Month Got Started
The story of Black History Month goes all the way back to 1915.
By Made By Us