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Twitter is littered with adorable photos of black children today under the hashtag #dangerousblackkids, which pokes fun at and defies the rampant criminalization of black children. In response to the Michael Dunn trial, in which Jordan Davis was characterized as a dangerous, weapon-brandishing thug, Twitter user @thewayoftheid shared this photo: More images of black children…

A Florida jury found Michael Dunn guilty today on four of five counts, including three for attempted second-degree murder. But jurors could not come to consensus on one—the first-degree murder charge in the death of Jordan Davis, which the judge declared mistried. In a post-verdict press conference, Florida prosecutor Erin Wolfson said that Dunn faces…

For Valentine’s Day, Google partnered with Ira Glass and NPR’s This American Life for its celebratory home page doodle. The animated illustration features six adorable love stories from “real people,” but the last one, “Blind Date,” is our favorite. Click on the candy heart of the same name, and you’ll learn how a man from…

The East Coast is currently getting slammed with copious amounts of snow. Bad weather beat up the South earlier this week, too, which means that for large swaths of the country, it’s really white outside.   How white? According to Twitter: It’s #sowhiteoutside that outside missed the beat: It’s so white that outside is all up in…

There are 1,100 students currently enrolled in UCLA’s School of Law. Only 33 of those students are black, representing a dismal 3 percent of the student body. To express their feelings of isolation and the frustrations that come with the burden of “representing the race,” UCLA’s black law students created a video called “33,” Buzzfeed…

It’s Black History Month, and there’s a solution for those of you who want to devote some time to celebrating black history without sacrificing your workout regimen. (This gets good.) The Legacy Workout, posted to Tumbler by creators Andia Winslow and Monique Walton, allows you to do both at the same time. Set to African…

Yesterday, Amber Rose posted footage of her adorable son, Sebastian “The Bash” Taylor Thomaz, to Instagram. And, well, just watch. Is it normal for children to know numbers before the age of 1? Someone call Mensa. He’s a curious fellow, too. Also, he has expensive taste. And those cheeks. Shouts to Bash for winning the…

In a rare appearance, Kanye West took to Twitter today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his debut album, The College Dropout. His 2004 album, which gave us “Slow Jams,” “All Falls Down” and Jesus Walks,” became a classic. It won three of the 10 Grammy nominations it received in 2005, and has gone on…

The task of lighting the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony—and marking the official start of the Games—is one typically reserved for the most celebrated, honorable athletes of the host country. Former Russian figure skater Irina Rodnina and former hockey goalie Vladislav Tretiak, who have six gold medals between them, did so at the opening…

Racial slurs appear in more than 10,000 tweets per day, according to a recent study conducted by Demos. The think tank mined more than 125,000 English-language tweets and discovered that close to one in every 15,000 contained racial epithets. The most common slurs are pretty gross. They include “Paki,” “nigga,” “spic,” “crow” and “squinty.” Oh,…