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In 2012, Black Voters Surpassed White Turnout for First Time Ever

UC Irvine Frat Sparks Outrage with Blackface Video: “He was trying to be Jay-Z…”

Nobel Prize Winner Gary Becker Advocates Paying Parents for Student Performance

[T]here’s Daddy

Georgia’s Wilcox High School Set to Hold Its First Integrated Prom

Tales from a Black Filled Childhood: Who Will Lead My Black Generation…No One?

10 Rappers That Should Have Made The XXL Freshman List

The League of Young Voters Launch #NoGunsAllowed Campaign

Chicago Students Boycott Standardized Test to Protest School Closings

Poor Police-Community Relations Present Major Obstacle to Stemming Tide of Violence in Chicago

Mothers of Young Men Slain by NYPD Call on Artists to Submit Songs for Justice

GENERATION JOBLESS: 300M Youth Around the World are Out of Work

House Honors Four Little Girls Killed in Birmingham Church Bombing

LZ Granderson: Treat Chicago Gangs as Terrorists

Wisconsin Incarcerates More of Its Black Male Population Than Any Other State

Black Scientists and Engineers Host Field Trip to Inspire Black Youth

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Asad Jafri About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed His Life

Detroit Party Store Mocks Black Customers; Posts Racist Images on Social Media

Obama Administration Announce New Drug Policy Emphasizing Treatment Over Incarceration

Rush Limbaugh Compares Boston Bombing Supsect to Trayvon Martin

The (Un)Suprising Racism at Elite Universities

Graduation Rates Increase at HBCUs

NYPD Claims Man Killed Himself by Running into Stopped Police Car, Contradicting Earlier Report

Two Harper High School Students Awarded Gates Millennium Scholarships!

Word to Antoine Dodson: ‘Hide Yo Kids’ from Police in Schools!

Mississippi Mayoral Candidate Admits to Past Life as a Prostitute

If You’re Not Actively Working for Peace, You Ain’t Hip-Hop

African Students Awarded $25,000 for Inventing Soap That Stops Spread of Malaria

Chicago Violence: 3 Dead, 13 Wounded Over the Weekend

Golf Prodigy Ginger Howard is Youngest Member of LPGA

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