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Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 25, 2019 2:09PM EDT

New Prince Album Highlights Songs He Penned for Other Artists

In honor of what would have been his 61st birthday, Prince’s estate will let the world hear his unreleased “Originals.”
Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 25, 2019 1:43PM EDT

READ: Former CBS Exec Calls Out Racism at Media Giant

Former head of diversity Whitney Davis writes that the company is “fraught with systemic racism, discrimination and sexual harassment.”
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Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 25, 2019 12:31PM EDT

Brooklyn's Newest Monument Honors Shirley Chisholm

Chisholm repped Bed-Stuy in Congress. Now, she finally gets her hometown props.
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Shani Saxon  Apr 25, 2019 10:56AM EDT

Advocacy Groups Call Out Discriminatory Practices in Federal Employment

The ACLU and the Leadership Conference Education Fund urge the Office of Personnel Management to remove job application questions that they say would negatively impact people with arrest records.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers check the IDs of pedestrians crossing into the United States after reopening the San Ysidro port of entry.
Shani Saxon  Apr 24, 2019 12:56PM EDT

Mexico Sends 15,000 Central American Migrants Home

The increase in deportations is attributed to President Donald Trump’s threat to close the United States-Mexico border.
A Latinx woman with long hair holds a microphone against a black backgtound, side view.
Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 24, 2019 12:30PM EDT

WATCH: New Doc Takes You Behind Scenes of AOC's Campaign

Netflix documentary “Knock Down the House” follows the grassroots campaigns of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other women who ran for Congress in 2018.
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Ayana Byrd  Apr 24, 2019 12:13PM EDT

Court Blocks Trump Administration's Abortion 'Gag Rule'

A federal judge called the regulation a “ham-fisted approach to public health policy’” that would harm lower-income earning women.
Caron Butler. A Black man, side profile, talking while driving,
Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 23, 2019 4:49PM EDT

New Documentary Explores Racism in the War on Drugs

Caron Butler’s “The Green Dream” shines a light on the devastation faced by Black and Latinx people who are criminalized for marijuana in record numbers.
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Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 23, 2019 2:13PM EDT

Long-Awaited Prince Memoir Gets October Release Date

Fans will get a glimpse into the artist’s personal world via his new book, “The Beautiful Ones.”
(L to R) Ken Shima, Joe X. Jiang, Simon “Young” Tam. Black and white photograph of three Asian men side by side in suits.
Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 23, 2019 11:52AM EDT

The Slants Front Man Pens Artist, Activist Memoir

Simon Tam’s “Slanted: How an Asian-American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court” chronicles the fight to trademark the band’s name.
Black man stands among his family's ruined possessions
Ayana Byrd  Apr 23, 2019 11:42AM EDT

New Study Finds Global Wealth Inequality Is Tied to Climate Change

Wealthy nations are getting richer as countries inhabited by people of color get hotter and more economically disadvantaged, say researchers.
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Shani Saxon  Apr 23, 2019 11:36AM EDT

Study Q&A: Report Examines Dangerous Effects of Pretrial Detention

Colorlines talked to the authors—who hail from Vera Institute of Justice and MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge—about the report’s findings.
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Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 22, 2019 2:01PM EDT

'The Curse of La Llorona' Tops Box Office, Draws Criticism for Appropriation

Many criticized Warner Bros. for appropriating Latinx culture in its marketing for the film: “It heightens the fear factor around a traditional practice and commodifies and exploits our culture just to get people to see their movie.”
Black protestors holding signs to fix Flint
Ayana Byrd  Apr 22, 2019 11:36AM EDT

Flint Residents Get Greenlight to Sue EPA

Thousands have joined a lawsuit that says the federal agency was negligent in its response to the city’s water crisis.
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catherine lizette gonzalez  Apr 19, 2019 5:46PM EDT

ICYMI: Study Says Artificial Intelligence Industry Must Confront 'Diversity Disaster'

A new study says the artificial intelligence industry—which is overwhelmingly populated by White people and men—is due for a reckoning.
Three Black women hold hands in a circle outside with a farmhouse in the background.
Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 19, 2019 3:02PM EDT

Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Superpowers Shine in 'Fast Color'

Mbatha-Raw: “The idea that we have power within us is something that I’ve always been interested in.”
A Black teenager grasps the hands of a Black woman as a Black police officer stands behind him.
Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 19, 2019 1:20PM EDT

WATCH: Trailer for Ava Duvernay's 'When They See Us'

The four-part limited Netflix series about the Central Park Five stars a slew of esteemed actors, including Michael K. Williams and John Leguizamo.
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Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 18, 2019 3:41PM EDT

Femme It Forward Concerts Showcase Female Empowerment

The “multi-format” event series features Cardi B, Teyana Taylor and City Girl onstage and behind the scenes. 
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Tiarra Mukherjee  Apr 18, 2019 1:45PM EDT

Beyoncé Pens Moving Essay On Michelle Obama for Time's '100 Most Influential People'

“She resembled us and was moving in spaces where, as Black Americans, we weren’t exactly meant to be,” the pop icon wrote about Obama. 
A small child wearing a blue hoodie sweatshirt pushes a purple stroller over a yellow street curb outside a closed temporary migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico on December 6, 2018.
Shani Saxon  Apr 17, 2019 4:12PM EDT

DHS Panel Recommends 'Emergency Actions' to Address Migrant Families at Border

Panel of the Homeland Security Advisory Council: “Thousands of migrant children are in danger.”