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Donald Trump--the vocal and divisive current frontrunner in the GOP presidential field--is attacking Jeb Bush by borrowing from the playbook…
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Let’s just cut to the chase with these Republicans and ask some blunt questions: Is being Mexican or Mexican-American the new black?…
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Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kanye West stunned TV producers and people across the country when he…
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On the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans does not have a reason to celebrate, as the black community…
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The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina comes at a time when we must remind ourselves that #BlackLivesMatter, but black lives…
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The civil rights community has lost one of its greatest champions and elder statesmen with the passing of Julian Bond...
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OPINION - President Obama just completed an historic trip to Kenya, his ancestral home and the land of his father’s…
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OPINION - In the area of criminal justice, this was quite a week for President Obama. Articulating a vision for…
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The Confederate flag has taken center stage in the media as South Carolina is expected to finally remove it from…
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The recent rash of black church burnings have many African-Americans wondering if this marks a resurgence of the nation’s original terrorists — white…
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President Obama — or Reverend President — has captured America’s attention on racial inequality. He must make the issue his…
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OPINION - Was the President’s eulogy at Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s homegoing service an example of a truly liberated Obama who…
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The Confederate flag and Dylann Storm Roof are perhaps the most potent and virulent symbols of racial hatred these days,…
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theGrio REPORT - Rachel Dolezal had quite a week, perhaps unlike anyone you know, as her parents revealed that the…
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Rachel Dolezal, 37, the head of the Spokane, Washington, branch of the NAACP, has represented herself as an African-American woman…
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Swimming while black is a crime? Or having a black pool party? Maybe the police in Texas have lost their…
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What happens when the police are the criminals? The city of Chicago settled with the family of LaQuan McDonald for…