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March 22, 2016
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Less than a year after the North Carolina Republican Party’s first black chairman was elected over…
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March 22, 2016
STUART, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida have arrested a man they say stole a BMW after trying to buy…
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March 21, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A job interview was in progress when a thief grabbed cash from the till at a…
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March 21, 2016
HAVANA (AP) — Yolanda Mauri’s ancestors almost certainly came to Cuba in chains, laboring as slaves on an island of…
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March 21, 2016
HAVANA (AP) — Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at…
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March 14, 2016
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — One of two former Black Panthers convicted in the 1970 bombing death of an Omaha police…
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March 11, 2016
WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two gunmen working as a team fatally shot five people including a pregnant woman and critically…
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March 9, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — In “Underground Airlines,” an upcoming novel by Ben Winters, a black bounty hunter rides through a…
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March 9, 2016
FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer accused of making an inappropriate comment about a Black Lives Matter activist…
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March 9, 2016
LANSING, Michigan (AP) — Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his long-shot White House bid with a crucial win in…
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March 8, 2016
“I doubt that Americans will ever be able to face the fact that the word ‘homosexual’ is not a noun.…
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March 4, 2016
Mitt Romney socked it to Donald Trump in an uncharacteristically aggressive speech Thursday. After calling Trump a "phony" and a…
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March 4, 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If there was any doubt about how Nina Simone’s family and fans feel about the upcoming…
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March 1, 2016
The now former-MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has broken her silence on her firing since the network released a statement saying that…
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February 29, 2016
“Waaaaaake UP!” This was the challenge South Carolina voters got from Chiraq Director and newly minted Bernie Sanders supporter Spike…
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February 29, 2016
DAYTON, OHIO (AP) — An Ohio pastor with deep roots in the Dayton community was shot and killed in his…
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February 28, 2016
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Unrest broke out in a Salt Lake City neighborhood after what appeared to be a…
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February 28, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching a version of “take your child to work day” that’s focused on…
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February 27, 2016
Yesterday, many of us received another Black History Month surprise when we learned that Melissa Harris-Perry walked away from her…
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February 26, 2016
The Democratic Party is the overwhelming party of choice for minorities: blacks, LGBT, women, the disabled, the poor, the working…