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Happy New Year, racist AI fakes, RIP Richard Smallwood
Welcome to 2026! Thank you for your support of this newsletter over the past three years.
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December 2025
How Brown’s student body president stepped up after a devastating school shooting
Talib Reddick explained how his commitment to service, brotherhood, and community guided his response during the crisis.
Dec 29, 2025
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Black student discrimination ignored, Nicki Minaj embraces MAGA, RIP Betty Reid Soskin
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Dec 26, 2025
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Tax targeting Gullah-Geechee, over 1,000 nonprofits drop DEI language, I'm on TikTok!
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Dec 19, 2025
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Carl Carlton, "Bad Mama Jama" and "Everlasting Love" singer, dead at 72
A cause of death has not yet been announced.
Dec 15, 2025
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Best Black history books of 2025, Kentucky State shooting, Battle of the Real HU
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Dec 12, 2025
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Major civil rights erasure, Megan Thee Stallion wins defamation case, new BET president
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Dec 5, 2025
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University of Alabama shuts down student magazines for Black students, women students
University officials told editors of Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six that they believed they were out of compliance with Trump administration guidance on…
Dec 4, 2025
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November 2025
Happy holidays, 'We Ain't Buying It!' campaign, RIP Mother Fletcher
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Nov 28, 2025
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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
Nov 24, 2025
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Big donations for HBCUs, medical racism, Sonny Rollins at 95
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Nov 21, 2025
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Tremane Wood clemency, digital Blackface is back, Jesse Jackson hospitalized
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Nov 14, 2025
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