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Serena Williams (Reuters/Daniel Munoz)

The world only has ugliness for black women. That’s why Serena Williams is so important

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(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Black America’s Bill Cosby nightmare: Why it’s so painful to abandon the lies that he told

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Paula Deen (AP/Andy Kropa)

Paula Deen’s last lesson: What her family’s brownface disgrace reveals about racism in America

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(Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

The Confederate flag isn’t just a symbol: Why America’s emblems of hate matter — and their disappearance should be celebrated

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(MSNBC)

America’s war on Black girls: Why McKinney police violence isn’t about “one bad apple”

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Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly (Reuters/Micah Walter/AP/Douglas C. Pizac)

Segregationists never went away: We just call them “small-government conservatives” now

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Booking photos of people arrested during the motorcycle gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015. (AP/McLennan County Sheriff's Office)

White America’s Waco insanity: The shocking realities it ignores about racism & violence

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Snapshots of a racist teacher: What a principal’s bigoted rant shows us about American education

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This undated photo provided by the family's attorney shows Tamir Rice. (AP Photo/Courtesy Richardson & Kucharski Co., L.P.A.)

Murdered son, abandoned mother: Tamir Rice, police violence & the lasting grief of Black parents

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A demonstrator confronts police near Camden Yards, Baltimore, April 25, 2015. (Reuters/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Black America’s Baltimore schism: Why the Freddie Gray tragedy demands serious soul-searching

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Gwyneth Paltrow (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

White America’s Gwyneth Paltrow problem: How it’s playing games with the lives of poor people

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Michael Slager, Robert Bates (AP/Charleston County Sheriff's Office/Tulsa County Sheriff's Office)

Blood money, killer cops: How privatization is funding the racist logic of America’s police

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Black death has become a cultural spectacle: Why the Walter Scott tragedy won’t change White America’s mind

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Former Atlanta Public Schools school research team director Tamara Cotman, center, is led to a holding cell after a jury found her guilty in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial, Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP/Kent D. Johnson)

America is criminalizing Black teachers: Atlanta’s cheating scandal and the racist underbelly of education reform

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(AP/Reuters/Susan Walsh/Michael Conroy/Joe Skipper/Photo montage by Salon)

The right’s made-up God: How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus

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Mo'ne Davis (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Black girls’ sexual burden: Why Mo’ne Davis was really called a “slut”

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Jonathan Capehart, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby (MSNBC/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Eric Thayer)

Stop poisoning the race debate: How “respectability politics” rears its ugly head — again

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America’s “black body” reality: How Selma, “Scandal” & Ferguson reveal an ugly truth

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Tamir Rice, Oprah Winfrey, Mike Brown, Barack Obama (AP/Reuters/Jordan Strauss/Saul Loeb)

“It’s the Blackness that scares everybody”: Why white people favor “African-Americans”

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Patricia Arquette, John Legend (ABC)

Black America’s hidden tax: Why this feminist of color is going on strike

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Pauli Murray (AP)

Black, queer, feminist, erased from history: Meet the most important legal scholar you’ve likely never heard of

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(MSNBC)

White male temper tantrums: What the “political correctness” debate completely misses

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Maureen Dowd; "Selma" (AP/Steven Senne/Paramount Pictures/Photo montage by Salon)

Maureen Dowd’s clueless white gaze: What’s really behind the “Selma” backlash

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George Clooney at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Paul Drinkwater)

Hollywood’s political ignorance: What Cosby, “Selma” & Hebdo reveal about white liberal consciousness

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