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In the Last 5 days.... A coroner slid a Black woman’s dead body into a morgue’s cold chambers because she refused to succumb to the fragile ego of a man or his desperate need to be loved and seen. This week, the country found out a beloved teacher, mother and community member, Aisha Fraser Mason, was stabbed to death as savagely as she had been beaten four years earlier by the same assailant – her ex-husband, disgraced former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason. Ai

A week has gone by since the 2018 midterms took place. State to state, Black women came up big winners. From sea to shining sea, Black women ran for office and in many cases, were the first Black women ever to win their elected office. Starting in the most liberal of states, Ayanna Pressley in Massachusetts is the first African-American congresswoman-elect in the state. Former educator and national teacher of the year, Jahana Hayes will be the first Black woman to represent

We are calling on our fellow Black sisters, our allies, comrades, and partners, across the nation to support Black women and girls by taking action now to cancel the R Kelly concert at the Highline Ballroom and the appearance at FREQ Club in New York City on Saturday January 27th. 1. Flood the Highline Ballroom with calls Main number: (212) 414 – 5994 Call Press Manager Jeff Mann (212) 997 – 4555 Email: Jeffmann@highlineballroom.com Tweet @HLBallroom 2. Tweet at the support

At age 50, R. Kelly has sold millions of records, and remains one of the dominant voices in R&B music. Kelly also “has a well-documented, twenty-five-year history” of victimizing women and underage girls. Between 1996 and 2002, he was subject to four publicly filed lawsuits - three by teenage girls - and in 2002, he was indicted for making child pornography, stemming from a video that prosecutors said showed of him having sex with and urinating into the mouth of a 14-year-old

As Christmas approaches, Congress moves towards passing a Tax Bill that a majority of Americans Don’t Want On Wednesday December 13th, Senate Republicans and House Representatives announced the imminent agreement on a consensus Tax Reform bill, consolidating the Senate and House versions of the Tax Bill that were voted through earlier this month. Congress is expected to move the Bill to the floor for a vote next week ahead of the Christmas Holiday. The Tax Bill would be the

On December 14th the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will decide whether or not we will keep our free and fair internet. What is Net Neutrality? In 2015, the FCC passed net neutrality regulations classifying Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T as common carriers. Common carriers are similar to utility companies or water companies; the internet is a public good. Currently, carriers are prohibited from speeding up, slowing down or blocki

“For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson – that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings…Black or not.” – Audre Lorde, Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Sister Outsider (1984) Black Women’s Blueprint unequivocally stands with the survivor who is going by Anna Chambers, as she speaks her truth and as she fights for justice and accountability from the two NYPD Police Officers