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5 Things Youth of Color Want White Gun Control Advocates to Know

Black students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School called a press conference soon after the historic March for Our Lives to share their concerns about the direction of a movement they feel is marginalizing their voices and suggesting for solutions which could hurt students of color.

By Barbara Sostaita • 6 years ago

Want to Be a Better Ally to Immigrants? Try These New Year’s Resolutions.

It’s a new year and a new opportunity to step up your game when it comes to supporting — and fighting alongside — immigrants.

By Barbara Sostaita • 6 years ago

Dear Women’s Marchers: DACA’s Gone. Keep Your Promise To Make Trump’s Life Impossible

Last weekend, the Women’s March threatened to make Trump’s life impossible if he ended DACA. Today, Trump’s Attorney General officially announced the end of the program. The lives of 800,000 young immigrants and their families now hang in the balance. Women’s Marchers, I’m asking all five million of you to keep your promise.

By Quita Tinsley • 7 years ago

Let’s Push Solidarity Beyond the Safety Pin This TDOR

Since the election last week, many people have begun wearing symbolic safety pins in order to demonstrate solidarity and allyship with marginalized people. But, as Demetria Lucas D’Oyley writes for The Root, it’s “an empty gesture.”

By Syreeta McFadden • 10 years ago

Tweet of the day

But seriously tho, this made my whole morning:

"I support feminism but I think some women take it too far" is an answer you don't need to give to a question no one asked you.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 5, 2013

Real. Talk. Everyday.

But seriously tho, this made my whole morning:

"I support feminism but I think some women take it too far" is an answer you don't need to give to a question no one asked you.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) ...

By Syreeta McFadden • 10 years ago

“So, you know, I figured it was a domestic-violence dispute…”

The happy ending to a terrible and frightening story of three missing women held in captivity in a Cleveland neighborhood for over ten years: They have been reunited with their families because a neighbor intervened in what he thought was a domestic violence incident.

Charles Ramsey “heard screaming. I’m eating McDonald’s. I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of the house.” He and several other neighbors broke through the door and got the woman, Amanda Berry (now 27 years old), who had been missing for ten years, and a small child out of the house. Once Berry was out, she identified who she was and told Ramsey and the others of the two other women, Gina DeJesus (now ...