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29 Shot, 6 Fatally in Memorial Day Weekend Violence in Chicago

Rhymes and Reasons Interviews Vic Spencer About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed His Life

Minneapolis Program Helps Teens Make Hip Hop in Exchange for Good Grades

Congressional Medal of Honor Awarded to Four Little Girls Killed in 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

Judge Rules That Trayvon Martin’s Alleged Drug Use, Texts, and Fighting Will Not Be Allowed in Trial

Where Are The Voices? Do Black Celebrities Have A Duty To Speak Out?

Kendrick Lamar Blasts Hip Hop’s Obsession with “Molly”

How Will We Fund the Next Generation of Non-profit Work?

Spotlighting Women of Color on Forbes’ “Most Powerful Women” List

Kiera Wilmot Speaks Out On Science Experiment Arrest, Aftermath

Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

Bronx “Ghetto” Bus Tour Shut Down After Outrage

Spelman Parents Outraged After Being Locked Out of Graduation for Tardiness

Shay-la Taylor Was in Labor While Oklahoma Tornado Destroyed Hospital

WATCH: 9 Year-Old Asean Johnson Captivates School Closing Protesters w/ Passionate Speech

REPORT: 400,000 Innocent Black and Latino New Yorkers ‘Stopped and Frisked’ in 2012

George Zimmerman’s Attorney Wants to Reference Trayvon Martin’s Drug Use in Court

Chicago School Board Votes to Close 50 Schools; Largest School Closure in City’s History

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Kimeco “Allegra” Roberson about the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

WATCH: Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) Releases PSA Condemning NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy

Dillard U. President: Why Did Dr. Dre Donate $35 Million to USC, and Not a Black College?

Chelesa Fearce Overcomes Homelessness; Will Start College as a Junior at Spelman

Lose Scholarship or Complete Racist Assignment: Which Would You Choose?

To All Afraid of the ‘Ghetto’ Continued

18 Year-Old Eesha Khare Invents Device that Charges Cell Phones in 30 Seconds

Does Obama Unfairly Hold African Americans to a Different Standard?

Dear Thurgood Marshall Jr, Why Are You On The Board Of Directors For CCA?

Nat. Science Foundation Awards Clemson $5 Mill Grant to Advance Blacks in Computer Science

Bronx Bus Tour Shows NYC Tourists What a “Real Ghetto” Looks Like

Dozens Arrested in Chicago School Closing Protests

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