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Calls for justice have grown louder for Cyntoia Brown, a Black Tennesee teen who was sentenced to life in prison after killing a man who sexually abused her.

Doctors convened at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention last week to discuss racial disparities and possible solutions.

Gay's new memoir calls out socially acceptable prejudice against fat bodies.

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Black women are left out of conversations about sexual assault and generally denied the empathy that White women are given who are victimized.

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Brown Girl Surf, a nonprofit based in Oakland, California, is on a mission to “amplify the voices” of brown women surfers while organizing a community around surfing.

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Teresa White, Aflac’s first Black woman president, is using her journey to inspire Black girls.

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The #MeToo movement was originally created by social activist Tarana Burke 10 years before the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Dove apologized on Sunday after controversy erupted over a Facebook ad for its body wash that showed a Black woman removing her brown shirt to reveal a White woman wearing, ahem, a clean white shirt.

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March For Black Women will bring Black women together to amplify their voices in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 30.

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The council met to vote on censuring the councilman who told black women to sit down.

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A new Centers for Disease Control Prevention report suggests that Black women have the highest homicide rates than other racial groups.

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“To recognize that women of color have to work—on average—eight months longer to earn the same as their male counterparts do in one year,” Williams writes in an op-ed at Fortune magazine.