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Beyonce brought four Black mothers who have lost their sons to police violence to the MTV VMA awards.

This is the New York neighborhood where an imam and his assistant where murdered in a hate crime this month.

Kirsten West Savali writes on Mr. Church and Hollywood continuing to produce films about a Black man being a white woman’s servant.

Chelsea Manning isn’t a symbol, she’s a person: “she breaths life into our movements and is a gift to our advocacy and organizing. We can’t lose her.”

Why is there a media blackout on the Native American pipeline blockade?

Mahroh is a community organizer and law student who believes in building a world where black and brown women and our communities are able to live free of violence. Prior to law school, Mahroh was the Executive Director of Know Your IX, a national survivor- and youth-led organization empowering students to end gender violence and a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research addresses the ways militarization, racism, and sexual violence impact communities of color transnationally.

Mahroh is currently at Harvard Law School, organizing against state and gender-based violence.

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