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Michael Jordan talks infamous comment ‘Republicans buy sneakers too’

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The radical histories of Mandela and MLK

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Why Jesse Helms won’t help Ted Cruz

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Obama on shoulders of men like Charlotte's Harvey Gantt

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – For all of his firsts — first black student admitted to an all-white South Carolina college, first African-American mayor of Charlotte — Harvey Gantt is perhaps best known for what he failed to achieve…
/ September 6, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

History of King holiday all but forgotten 25 years later

OPINION – The fight for a King national holiday has been bitter, contentious, and controversial from the first moment it was introduced…
/ January 15, 2011