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Crips And Bloods Call Truce To Protest Police Brutality, BPD Call It "Credible Threat"

Wait a minute, something does not pass the smell test. How did news of a gang truce morph into a police press release about a gang plot to kill cops?

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America’s 1.5 Million Missing Black Men Is Nothing Short Of Genocide

For every 100 black women, there are 83 black men. This is not the case in white America, where for every 100 women, there are 99 men, almost complete parity.

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Minority Notes From The Underground Music Scene

In Baltimore I watched as the fantasy element of the music scene grew from a seed of charming oddness into an escapist monster.

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What Drunk White People Get Away With, People Of Color Are Killed Over

Drunk or not, it’s a fact that white people are more prone to acting like assholes to authority figures—because we’re more likely to get away with it.

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Mass Incarceration: The Latest System Of Social Control Over Blackness

Blacks are being systematically controlled and oppressed through prison, probation, or parole.

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and life-long, and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

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16 States Have More People In Prison Cells Than College Dorms

Let than sink in for a minute. More people behind bars than in the dorms.

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Lena Dunham's Jewish Boyfriend Quiz And The Truth About Anti-Semitism

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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