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Scene of Friday night's deadly shooting, in which Mark Carson was killed. (Courtesy NBC New York)

Anti-gay crimes spike in NYC, rally planned to denounce violence

NBC New York
NBC New York - Gay activists and supporters shaken by a series of violent attacks, including a fatal shooting in the West Village on Friday, plan to rally Monday as statistics show anti-gay crimes have nearly doubled this year...
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Former high school football star Brian Banks is helping out those who helped him prove that he was wrongly convicted of rape. He's joining the California Innocence Project's Innocence March. (Courtesy NBC Southern California)

Brian Banks marches to protest wrongful convictions

Christina Cocca, NBC Southern California
NBC Southern California - Brians Banks joined the “Innocence March” in Malibu Saturday as part of a 660-mile walk to support the California Innocence Project...
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Students march through the Loop protesting the city's plan to close more than 50 elementary schools on March 25, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Last week the city announced the plan claiming it was necessary to rein in a looming $1 billion budget deficit. The closings would shift about 30,000 students to new schools and leave more than 1,000 teachers with uncertain futures. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Chicago Teachers Union, supporters gear up for rally on school closings

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - As students of the third-largest school district in the nation enter their second day of spring break, many of them are spending their vacation protesting the proposed closing of 54 Chicago public schools...
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Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a march after a vigil held for Kimani "Kiki" Gray in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in New York. The 16-year-old was shot to death on a Brooklyn street last Saturday night by plainclothes police officers who claim the youth pointed a .38-caliber revolver at them. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Kimani Gray's family to speak out

Jake Pearson, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - The family of a New York City teenager shot to death by police said they would speak out Thursday about the case after a candlelight vigil resulted in 46 arrests...
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Protest in East Brooklyn for slain teen Kimani Gray.

46 arrested in 3rd day of protests for Brooklyn teen slain by police

NBC New York
NEW YORK - Nearly four dozen people were arrested as scores of demonstrators gathered in Brooklyn for a third consecutive day to protest the NYPD department following the police-involved shooting of a 16-year-old boy over the weekend, authorities said...
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Lisa Hogue wears pins as she and others gather near the U.S. Capitol building on the National Mall for the Inauguration ceremony on January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Barack Obama will be ceremonially sworn in for his second term today. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Small group of protesters urges jobs not war at inauguration

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - A few dozen protesters were gathered along the Inauguration Day parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue invoking the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King's legacy and urging jobs, not war...
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo a worker pulls a line of shopping carts toward a Walmart store in North Kingstown, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Wal-Mart, Target employees' plight saps fun out of Black Friday

Shartia Brantley
theGRIO REPORT - The holiday shopping creep may delight some bargain shoppers who are on the hunt for a great deal, but some employees of retail giants such as Target and Wal-Mart are not happy...
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In this Oct. 2, 1962 photo provided by the University of Mississippi, James Meredith, left, attends class for the first time in Peabody Hall on The University of Mississippi campus, in Oxford, Miss. Meredith, the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi after integration, says he doesn't plan to participate in the university's commemoration of his history-making enrollment 50 years ago, which prompted a state-federal standoff, sparked deadly mob violence and ultimately ended the university's official policy of racial segregation. (AP Photo/University of Mississippi Public Relations, Ed Meek, File)

Man who integrated Ole Miss troubled by protest

Associated Press
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The man who integrated the University of Mississippi says he's troubled and confused by the protest there against President Barack Obama's re-election...
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, holds up hands with Richard Montgomery of Freeport, Ill., after they and about a dozen others were arrested on criminal trespass to property charges by Freeport, Ill., police Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/The Journal-Standard, Joe Tamborello)

Rev. Jesse Jackson jailed and freed after Ill. workers' protest

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FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he joined workers at a northern Illinois plant that’s slated to close because their fight to save t

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Code Pink protester Medea Benjamin (2nd R) demonstrates in front of the Stratz Center for the Performing Arts on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

RNC protesters try to arrest Condi Rice

Mike Schneider, Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Police in Tampa stopped a dozen anti-war protesters from entering an event attended by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the group said it intended to arrest her for war crimes...
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