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Menthol cigarette companies historically targeted Black communities, researchers say

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Democratic Sen. Whitehouse defends membership to alleged all-white beach club

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Protests in cities across the US – BLM activist arrested

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Mavis Staples to perform at Newport Folk Festival

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The Newport Folk Festival says gospel singer Mavis Staples will perform in this year’s line-up…
/ February 3, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Newport Historical Society buys letter of freed slave from 1821

He was the country’s first black music teacher, and led the Free African Union Society, believed to be the first association of African Americans in the country…
/ February 8, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Teen saves apartment building from fire

VIDEO – His family watched in shock as the teen fearlessly worked to put out the flames…
/ May 20, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Jury awards $71M in free cigarettes for blacks lawsuit

BOSTON (AP) – Willie Evans alleged the Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Tobacco Co. introduced his mother to smoking as a child in the 1950s by giving her free Newport cigarettes…
/ December 14, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

What’s Jay-Z’s state of mind over song spoof?

LONDON (AP) – An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York’s metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof said Wednesday…
/ July 28, 2010