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It’s in vogue to call the new movement to end police violence against black civilians leaderless. Historian and veteran activist Barbara Ransby argues that it has many leaders in the Ella Baker ...

Mollena Williams is gregarious, the kind of woman who makes a point of saying, “How are you today?” to the Walgreens cashier. She has a short afro and laughs easily. She works as an administrative ...

Rev. Eboni Marshall Turman is an assistant professor of theology and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School. She served as assistant minister of the historic Abyssinian Baptist ...

Research support was provided by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Additional research by Juell Stewart. Since she was 16, Eva Hernández has worked a string of low-wage jobs. She's ...

There is no American History without women. Movements do not appear overnight; they are built in classrooms, churches, union halls, and the neighborhoods just trying to survive. Women have been at the ...

When Celeste Ng published the novel, there wasn't a Black Mia. “I didn’t feel like I was the right person to try to bring a Black woman’s experience to the page,” Ng said. Colorlines is the leading ...

As you know, the video for Beyoncé Knowles' "Formation" does the most, from invoking police violence, to flashing back to Hurricane Katrina, to celebrating Blue Ivy's adorable afro. Here, Yaba Blay, a ...

In a myriad of ways, it was women who built the farmworker movement around Chávez, sustained it, and continue to lead its modern incarnation. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on ...

In July, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) celebrated its 30th anniversary since becoming law on July 26, 1990. The ADA made it illegal to discriminate against anyone who is disabled, and much ...

Louis Mitch ell expected a lot of change when he began taking injections of hormones eight years ago to transition from a female body to a male one. He anticipated that he’d grow a beard, which he ...

Women of color in the pornography industry are paid half to three quarters of what white actresses tend to make. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on race, power and democracy. We ...