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He was headed for the discipline track, Ford-Morthel says, and even as a fourth grader, he would easily have been suspended for his behavior in many other schools. "But we sat with him and we had to ...

A new documentary tells the story of the migrant mother of 12 children who was the first female farm worker in America elected to represent her peers.

Over Labor Day weekend, Akiba Solomon took a 21-hour bus ride to Michael Brown's town with a group of black activists traveling under the name Black Life Matters. Here's some of what happened during ...

It’s in vogue to call the new movement to end police violence against black civilians leaderless. Historian and veteran activist Barbara Ransby argues that it has many leaders in the Ella Baker ...

Louis Mitch ell expected a lot of change when he began taking injections of hormones eight years ago to transition from a female body to a male one. He anticipated that he’d grow a beard, which he ...

There have been many opportunities to put into practice the messages, drawn from the natural world, of brown's latest book. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on race, power and ...

When Celeste Ng published the novel, there wasn't a Black Mia. “I didn’t feel like I was the right person to try to bring a Black woman’s experience to the page,” Ng said. Colorlines is the leading ...

When Occupiers decided civil rights icon John Lewis was no exception to their process of ordering speakers, critics said it revealed the movement's blind spots on race. Kung Li explains how race ...

In 1970, 23 Native activists scaled the presidential monument and renamed it "Crazy Horse Mountain" in protest of the U.S. government's control of land it previously granted to the Sioux. Share ...

The Michigan state prison system has banned Frantz Fanon’s seminal race theory book “Black Skin, White Masks” from its libraries. Here’s how legal experts and his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès, are ...

Just days after the Republican and Democratic parties held national conventions that put forward their respective plans for America, The Movement for Black Lives has released its own platform.