Black expats in Thailand and Australia describe the guilt they feel living fairly privileged lives in comparison with the discrimination that African immigrants and Aborigines face....
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#SayHerName: Why We Should Declare That Black Women And Girls Matter, Too
Tanisha Anderson. Rekia Boyd. Miriam Carey. Michelle Cusseaux. Shelly Frey. Kayla Moore....
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Is Being Mentally Ill in America a Crime?
In the debate on mass incarceration, there’s a story to be told about how our prisons are becoming the new asylums where the mentally ill are misunderstood and locked away, punished for their illness...
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America’s Oldest Park Ranger, 93, Is A Fierce Advocate For Young Women Of Color Everywhere
For America’s most seasoned ranger, sharing nine decades of history is, truly, a walk in the park....
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In the Rush to Aid Baltimore’s ‘Minority-Owned Businesses,’ Will Black Businesses Be Left Out?
As West Baltimore begins to rebuild, there are key questions about which businesses were destroyed or damaged and whether those receiving disaster relief truly represent the interests and complexion of the people who live...
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Cicely Tyson, Oprah Winfrey Recognize African American Achievements In TV During Paley Center Tribute
The Paley Center for Media hosted a star-studded event Thursday evening celebrating the 35th anniversary of BET’s launch, as well as the groundbreaking achievements of African-Americans in television over the years....
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Persevere
Click to view this article in its original format as it appeared in The Transformational Agenda Magazine Well, I’ll tell you, Life for me ain’t been no street of gold. It’s had potholes in...
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4 Big Things Google Is Doing To Improve Diversity In Silicon Valley
After executives were slammed last year over low diversity numbers, Google is stepping up to help make Silicon Valley less homogenous and spread the wealth in one of the best paid industries in the...
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‘The Mugshot Series’ Reverses Ugly Stereotypes Of Black Men
Artist EJ Brown is fed up with the media perpetuating damaging and destructive stereotypes of black men....
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Chicago’s Reparations to Police Torture Victims Offer a Glimpse of the Power of #BlackLivesMatter
The youth uprisings around the country have ignited a fire that is blazing a path for change and justice....
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Rethink Everything!
Full Graphics Love Black As a people we do whacky self-destructive things to one another, as if we hate one another; and often constantly berate and belittle each other. Now is the time to...
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I Saw… I Cried
I Saw I Cried Click to view this article in its original format as it appeared in The Transformational Agenda Magazine Inspired by From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried by Carrie...
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In Baltimore’s Wake Our Resolve Is Stronger
By Urban Cusp on February 16, 2015 I shook my head as I read tweet after tweet demonizing the residents of Baltimore because I understood, as so many of us do, that the sadness...
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The Educational Guidebook
We, as African Americans, constantly preach the importance of education and its benefits, but we don’t demand academic excellence from our children or ourselves. While St. Louis puts more educational options at the fingertips...
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20 Years Later
Let us examine our status 20 years in the future: people always ask me how it is that African-Americans were able to turn their stuff around at the dawn of the twenty-first century and...
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Rethink Everything
Love Black As a people we do whacky self-destructive things to one another, as if we hate one another; and often constantly berate and belittle each other. Now is the time to stop these...
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And the Vision Caught On
I have to do a report for school on The Transformational Agenda Movement? Were you a part of it?...
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An Epic Un-Civil War
Many of us are blind to it, deaf to it, refuse to speak of it. Its battlements and ramparts are our homes and community centers, our parks and churches. Its casualties are our friends,...
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A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
“THERE IS NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM ANYWHERE, AND MANY OF US WILL HAVE TO PASS THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH AGAIN AND AGAIN BEFORE WE REACH THE MOUNTAINTOP OF OUR...
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Darkness
by: Louis ConPhliction These are the problems that our kind was dealing with see back then… this was a time where black pride was diminishing, we was taken into slavery they misplacing and...
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Cliff’s Notes
Authored by: Cliff Kodero, based on questions Kenndra Roberts has always wanted to ask Like a blind man seeing himself in the mirror for the very first time, my experience here in the United...
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