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Michael B. Jordan has teamed up with Color of Change to launch an initiative designed to combat racism in the entertainment industry.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is launching a new nonprofit foundation promoting equal rights, continuing his efforts for cancer research and preventing violence against women.

Breaking: Raffi Freedman-Gurspan the first out transgender White House official: http://t.co/oM7B3yP4nh Via @MicNews pic.twitter.com/agWT0guhsc — Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) August 18, 2015 The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the hiring of its first openly transgender staff member, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, former policy adviser for the Racial and Economic Justice Initiative at the National Center for Transgender Equality, according […]

With the release of the National Urban League‘s 38th annual State Of Black America Report, a panel discussion involving key figures of NUL opens up an examination of the finer points of the report’s findings and what steps need to be taken to move the economic needle forward for people of color. Jeff Johnson sat with Dr. Valerie Rawlston Wilson, the NUL’s […]