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Chicago activist shot to death after leaving anti violence event

Columbus Short axed from ‘Scandal’

NBA Clippers owner to girlfriend: ‘don’t bring blacks to my games’

Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash cleared of all sex abuse allegations

Jem and the Holograms actress much lighter than cartoon

Southland College Prep sees 100 percent graduation rate

Man finds noose hanging in workplace twice in one week

Video: Cliven Bundy defends slavery comments with more racist banter

Emanuel aides, CNN producers script Chicagoland scenes according to emails

Study: faculty members more likely to respond to white males

Chicago school named after President Obama

Video: Cliven Bundy, ‘blacks better off as slaves’

Delivery man who thought he was being robbed shot by plain-clothes cops

Brooklyn District Attorney to end prosecutions of low-level pot arrests

Tyler Perry pays family of sick teen’s rent for a year

On television, more transgender, gender fluid characters in focus

Update: charges brought against 5 Hasidic men who beat black gay fashion student

Elderly woman tied up during wrongful police raid

Man breaks into National Civil Rights Museum, sleeps on bed at former motel

Video: Pharrell features diverse women in ‘Marilyn Monroe’ video

Meet Patrick Peoples, the latest teen to get accepted into several Ivy League schools

Study: if you’re black, reviewers will find more errors in your writing

#BYPGotSkills Series: Using Social Media for Activism Webinar

A fine debate: triplets argue over which Ivy League school to attend

KKK forms Neighborhood Watch Group

People Magazine names Lupita Nyong’o ‘Most Beautiful Person of 2014’

With #myNYPD hashtag, Black Twitter exposes police brutality

Racist Easter eggs left on lawns of Virginia community

After 8 years, inmates still waiting for trial

Federal Government offers assistance to Chicago police after weekend violence

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