African American stars are using their large platform to demand equal protection of black life in America – just as their forbears did

As the presidential campaign awakens racist rhetoric, black art is, this time around, unconcerned with the emotional wellbeing of white folks

The Obamas have taken art from the edges and placed it front and center. Their legacy – now at risk – is to make all Americans feel visible

Many black voters are uncomfortable with the values he proposes to take to the White House – and, despite the generational divide, they haven’t abandoned Clinton

The singer’s newest video is an inherently political and a deeply personal look at the black and queer bodies who have most often borne the brunt of our politics

The former Oklahoma City police officer was convicted of assaulting only eight of the 13 women who accused him. Some accountability is better than none

if we forget what joy looks, tastes, feels and sounds like, we will have succumbed to darkness. We must be thankful instead

As shows like The Walking Dead and books like Margaret Atwood’s new novel show, the line between entertainment and reality blurs to a point of alarm

The lie that African-Americans are incapable of building and maintaining family structures has be bought by many, including policymakers

Racism and capitalism are fire and air - one cannot exist without the other but many progressives can’t see that

Stump speeches and commentary still discuss family as something akin to looking at the country through soft-focused, sepia-toned glasses

To deny ethnic and cultural differences is to erase the identities of those who cannot choose

Greek art represented a valuation of male and female roles that codified a power dynamic and a social order that persists today

While the mainstream may not yet reflect a true representation of people of color, we’re creating space for that existence in the cyber world

Syreeta McFadden: I don’t want to imagine what it means if we can’t look to the federal government to fix systemic abuses when the law falls short of justice

Syreeta McFadden: Were any of us, before now, truly so naive as to believe that we’d achieved a post-racial America?

Syreeta McFadden: The Missouri grand jury’s decision has sent a message to the world that black lives do not matter. Fists up. The cops still shoot

Syreeta McFadden: We want to believe in justice for all, but when guns are in white privileged hands, blind justice remains impossible to expect

Syreeta McFadden: The police transformed actress Danièle Watts into a prostitute. You call this progress?

Syreeta McFadden: Police have cooled. Local leaders have promised. Eric Holder has come to town. Can a microcosm for American malice become a kind of peace?