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SHORTLY BEFORE Alton Sterling’s and Philando Castile’s names became viral hashtags on social media, the latest flare-up in the ongoing conversation about race and racial justice in the United States had been sparked by actor Jesse Williams’s speech at...

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“ You can surround your white main characters by people of color and call it diversity, but is it really? Diversity is such a buzzword these days. We talk about it all the time, and as it gets discussed more and more, white writers have seen it not...

By Cheryl Clarke In March 2005, Cheryl Clarke was the featured keynote speaker at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center’s Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference. The Feminist Wire is elated to offer here the...

Terrell Jermaine Starr/Fusion YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Telly Lovelace is a good brotha, but the Republican Party has set him up to fail. It’s not him. There is no doubt in my mind that he loves black people and wants our community to thrive. He wants us to...