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Man raises $30,000 for non-profit while in prison

BYP100’s FM Supreme to be honored at 43rd Annual Rainbow PUSH convention

Duke dorm named after racist to be renamed

Chicago teen Taylor Townsend debuts at Wimbledon

Transgender woman burned to death, murder investigated as a hate crime

Not even FIFA is immune: fans show up in Blackface at Ghana game

Update: Nigeria ends #bringbackourgirls search, more than 200 girls remain missing

Student is the first black valedictorian in school’s history

Rising athlete’s career cut short after doctors discover heart condition

Video: study reveals just how much people don’t understand racism

Family of ‘hot felon’: this is not a joke

Dick Gregory honored with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Tona Brown makes history by becoming first transgender African-American woman to play at Carnegie Hall

In latest rant, Kanye West disses Obama

A victory for stop-and-frisk protesters

Update: Tracy Morgan released from hospital, transferred to rehab

People are talking about this felon for all of the wrong reasons

College student makes the most out of experience, travels world while learning

Event: ‘Free Her Rally’ seeks to call attention to women and girls in prison

City of New York reaches $40M settlement with Central Park Five

Lupita Nyong’o looks amazing on cover of ‘Vogue’

Texas reps accidentally support reparations for slavery

Lawsuit: woman says she was fired for her Afro

Study: Eviction rates for black women comparable to black male incarceration

Poll: drivers in Portland show racial bias towards pedestrians

149 years ago today, Juneteenth was born

Woman picks up second job to deliver food to homeless during lunch break

Tufts University kicks out student after she was raped

Video shows police in Texas fatally shooting handcuffed man

Here’s why 2014 should be another Freedom Summer

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