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Bray School, oldest US schoolhouse for Black children, moving to museum

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Virginia mom gets keys to first 3D-printed home from Habitat for Humanity

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Halloween party at Brooklyn warehouse shut down by authorities

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Boycott planned after mother and daughter falsely accused of stealing and handcuffed by police

A boutique in Brooklyn, NY is accused of racially profiling a woman and accusing her of shoplifting while trying on clothes with her teenage daughter.
/ May 12, 2018
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Craig Spencer is first case of Ebola confirmed in New York City

NEW YORK (AP) — A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, according to preliminary test results, city officials said Thursday…
/ October 23, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Kara Walker’s new exhibit explores the politics of the black female body

The experience of Kara Walker’s latest work, ‘A Subtlety or The Marvelous Sugar Baby,’ staged in an abandoned Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, begins well before you enter its dilapidated, molasses-encrusted battlements.
/ May 15, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Emory: Colleges come to terms with slave-owning pasts

In 2009, the school acknowledged that it, “owned and exploited slave labor from its founding to the Civil War…”
/ May 24, 2011