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#ShoppingWhileBlack A family that wanted a basketball for their little boy wound up in a conflict with a Nike store employee who says they stole it — but was proven wrong
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A senior Chinese diplomat deleted a racist tweet about white residents who refuse to live in Black communities in Washington D.C.
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Chicago Urban Alliance interns going about their daily routine got a pleasant shocker when Barack Obama came to visit and gave them a motivational pep talk
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Refusing to be moved by the vicious cries of a rally of the president’s supporters, the freshman congresswoman simply used a familiar line from a favorite poet
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Those who feel that President Trump telling a group of Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from was asinine are not alone, in fact, they are in the majority
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The traditions of brass bands playing New Orleans’ French Quarter clashed with a local businessman who called police when one blocked his entrance, but resulted in a violent confrontation
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Jordin Sparks opens up about postpartum struggles and why she says her husband is the “greatest thing” to ever happened to her.