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November 9, 2015
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Long-simmering protests at the University of Missouri over matters of race and discrimination got a boost…
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November 2, 2015
Afro-Brazilian actress Taís Araújo has endured a litany of racist attacks on her social media page during the weekend, prompting…
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November 1, 2015
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tiger Woods’ former caddie Steve Williams has described his anger and frustration at being “hung…
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November 1, 2015
The footage is, in short, cringe-worthy. As a 16-year-old Spring Valley High School student sits at her desk, former Columbia,…
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October 30, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is using a Southern campaign swing to outline criminal justice proposals…
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October 13, 2015
PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — Former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was hospitalized after he was found unconscious Tuesday…
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August 28, 2015
In a new episode of the soap opera that is Chris Brown’s life, the singer was caught battling it out…
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August 28, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of…
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August 11, 2015
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early Tuesday…
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July 13, 2015
Joseph C. Phillips, best known for his role on the Cosby Show as Martin Kendall, the husband of Denise Huxtable,…
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July 10, 2015
In March of 1982, two social scientists named James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, joined together to write an…
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July 6, 2015
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Steven Rebenstorf has numerous flags flying atop his canopy tent inside Daytona International Speedway. The…
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July 5, 2015
If you’re a black person living and working in North America, there’s a good chance that you’re not only very…
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July 4, 2015
The 4th of July is a day to celebrate our nation’s accomplishments, but it also needs to be a day…
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July 2, 2015
Dylann Roof’s delusion that black people systematically “rape [white] women” and are “taking over [the] country” is a racist narrative…
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July 1, 2015
GREELEYVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A fire that destroyed a black church that 20 years ago was a target of the…
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June 25, 2015
On the morning of Saturday the 6th  of August 2011, all was well in London. In a city that prides…
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June 24, 2015
OPINION - In its most basic and purest form, the Confederate flag is a representation of black enslavement and subjugation.…
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June 23, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A top Mississippi  lawmaker says the Confederate battle emblem is offensive and needs to be removed…
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June 22, 2015
On June 17, 1822, Denmark Vesey and five others were going to revolt to kill slaveholders and free the people…