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Racial Profiling
February 6, 2019

Alabama state legislator introduces bill to bring racial profiling to a full stop

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EJ Bradford
February 6, 2019

Protests erupt, flags burned after cop who killed Ala. man in mistaken shooting cleared

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Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
February 6, 2019

Virginia Attorney General says he dressed in blackface to portray rapper Kurtis Blow in college

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Tyra Banks thegrio.com
February 6, 2019

Tyra Banks announces her new theme-park business venture: Modelland

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Van Jones thegrio.com
February 6, 2019

Van Jones on Trump’s SOTU: It was a ‘psychotically incoherent,’ mix of ‘cookies and dog poop’

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O.J. Simpson thegrio.com
February 6, 2019

‘Man up!’: O.J. Simpson sends a message to his ‘buddy’ Donald Trump and Roger Stone

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nurse
February 6, 2019

TRUE CRIME: Nurse pleads not guilty of rape and impregnating woman in vegetative state

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Congo
February 6, 2019

Experts call for emergency declaration on Congo’s Ebola

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Jussie Smollett
February 6, 2019

Jussie Smollett is back on set filming ‘Empire’ after violent attack along with trauma counselors

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February 6, 2019

Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and former staffer Christine Beatty talk about their scandalous affair in podcast

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This image shows Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a picture, at right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of the governor. It's unclear who the people in the picture are, but the rest of the page is filled with pictures of Northam and lists his undergraduate alma mater and other information about him. (Eastern Virginia Medical School via AP) thegrio.com
February 6, 2019

Virginia yearbook staff disagree on whether governor’s racist photo was mix-up

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Booker
February 5, 2019

Cory Booker has ‘a boo,’ but who is she?

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In this pool image from video, Stacey Abrams delivers the Democratic party's response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 from Atlanta. Abrams narrowly lost her bid in November to become America's first black female governor, and party leaders are aggressively recruiting her to run for U.S. Senate from Georgia. Speaking from Atlanta, Abrams calls the shutdown a political stunt that "defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values." (Pool video image via AP) thegrio.com
February 5, 2019

Stacey Abrams calls Trump’s government shutdown a “disgrace” in SOTU response

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Jemel Roberson thegrio.com
February 5, 2019

Jemel Roberson: Police release dashcam footage of chaotic scene after fatal shooting

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February 5, 2019

Marine veteran alleges Bay Area cop assaulted him for recording arrest

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