A handful of African-American academics are highlighting the “social and psychological repercussions” of code-switching, noting that previous research has shown it can
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Lupita Nyong’o has released a children’s book to help kids be comfortable in the skin that they’re in. “When I was younger,
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Alana Marie Firstly, I want to make this clear: People often (always) confuse East St. Louis and St. Louis—they are not the same city.
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Quick — think of the most beautiful person you know. Is it your partner? Your mother? Rihanna? (Wait, you know Rihanna? That’s
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka says she hopes her sponsors will consult with her about how they portray her,
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When you are making a film about Shirley Chisholm, you are making a film about a black woman icon who was not
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Charlotte, NC — Don’t wait until the next unarmed Black man is killed by racist cops or the next racially insensitive advertisement
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Nationwide — Just in time for #BlackGirlsRock, #BlackGirlMagic, and every other hashtag that celebrates Black women, one Black-owned toy company has just
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History was made in Ethiopia on Thursday when former United Nations official Sahle-Work Zewde became the nation’s first woman to be elected
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Turkey is paying homage to Malcolm X by renaming the street on which a new U.S. embassy is being built after the
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