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Brennan Center Report details 15 different executive actions to reduce mass incarceration

Report: minority students get less effective, less experienced teachers

Creator seeks to educate urban community on investing through film project

In online experiment, white man experiences difficulty of being black

Aunt of mother arrested for leaving kids in car during interview says ‘she was too proud to ask for help’

Man who tried to hire KKK to kill neighbor gets lenient sentence

Update: Trans activist Monica Jones convicted of ‘manifesting prostitution’

Tommy Smith statue vandalized on San Jose State University Campus for third time

Chicago native Allison Semmes shines in role as Diana Ross

Scholarship Alert: Tom Joyner launches scholarship for art students

North Carolina Supreme Court hears appeals to reinstate death sentences for inmates

Kanye West, Common create more than 20,000 jobs for Chicago Youth

New York man suing state for $25 million after wrongful conviction

Lawsuit: man sues NYPD over pepper-spray attack

‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant says he did his best

Fourth grader denied right to play on school basketball team

Report: Florida charges more kids as adults than any other state, black youth disproportionately affected

Record number of African Americans accepted to Harvard

Mother who was jailed for enrolling kids in school writes book

Playwright takes reality of black men, prisons to main stage

Petition calls for exoneration of Michael Cornelius Anderson

Florida House passes bill that would allow owners to conceal weapons at public events

Lawsuit: NYPD accused of excessive force that left dead teen quadriplegic

Registration for the ‘Freedom Dreams…Freedom Now!’ conference now open!

UCLA to get African American studies department

Couple forced into strip-search over $3 earrings

Update: Colin Kaepernick responds to allegations of sexual assault

Report: in response to minority growth, whites becoming more conservative

For Brown Girls Founder Karyn Washington dead at 22

Who Will Keep My Sister?: A Dialogue & Discussion on the Criminalization of Black Women & Girls

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