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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. (AP)

Blackface in my fourth grade play: How a white girl with a racist dad played MLK

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Cece McDonald, Beyonce (Minnesota Department of Corrections/AP/Yosra El-essawy)

“I woke up like this”: Beyoncé, CeCe and the fight for justice for black women

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Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)

White supremacy wins again: Melissa Harris Perry and the racial false equivalence

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Ani DiFranco performs during Gulf Aid benefit concert at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 16, 2010. (Reuters)

Ani DiFranco’s faux-pology: White privilege and the year in race

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Evangelical church’s ugly truth: “Duck Dynasty” and Christian racists

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Beyonce (AP/Frank Micelotta)

The Beyoncé wars: Should she get to be a feminist?

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Nelson Mandela, Bill Cosby (AB/Bebeto Matthews/NBC)

The Mandelas, hip-hop and Cliff Huxtable: How black popular culture can politicize us

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(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Gary Cameron/Jonathan Ernst)

GOP’s race problem: What’s really behind that bad tweet

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Michelle Obama (AP/Evan Vucci)

Lay off Michelle Obama: Why white feminists need to lean back

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Rihanna, at the 41st American Music Awards, November 24, 2013. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

The politics of Rihanna’s hair: Her AMA do was a powerful form of resistance

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"The Best Man Holiday" (Michael Gibson)

America’s black movie amnesia: Non-slavery films sell, too, guys

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A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Asking for help while black: How it became a capital offense

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America’s grotesque amusement: The joke is on black women again

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Uzo Aduba, Julianne Hough (Netflix/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-751606p1.html'>Joe Seer</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

The first rule of blackface: It’s not hard to understand, everyone

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(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=431852'>-Oxford-</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Men are making it worse: Battered, fearful mothers are not to blame

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Barack Obama and Norman C. Francis, president of Xavier University of Louisiana are seen during the processional at the annual commencement program for Xavier University. (AP/Judi Bottoni)

Racism shapes education: Austerity and the right’s assault on historically black colleges must stop

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Radha Blank

Detangling racism: White women’s fixation with black women’s hair

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Amy Carey, fifth from right, sister of Miriam Carey, speaks outside the home of her sister Valarie in the Brooklyn, Oct. 4, 2013. (AP/John Minchillo)

Miriam Carey, Obamacare and WIC: A deadly war on women of color

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Marissa Alexander (AP/Lincoln B. Alexander)

Women’s lives don’t matter: The lesson of Marissa Alexander

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Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Tami Chappell/AP/Ed Reinke)

GOP launches race war to boost the 1 percent

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(Reuters/Jason Reed/AP/Wendi Hammock/photo collage by Salon)

No, Oprah and Barack can’t fix racism: Stop celebrating “how far we’ve come!”

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Maya WIley, Julianne Malveaux (MSNBC/C-Span)

America’s next great black leader

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-149584p1.html'>marekuliasz</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-586411p1.html'>Pictureguy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

The right’s toxic back-to-school disaster

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(AP)

Marches won’t cut it anymore: Why this week’s feels like a funeral

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