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’12 Years A Slave’ actress Lupita Nyong’o nominated for Oscar

15-year-old abducted, escapes with help of stranger

Kwame Kilpatrick serving longest prison corruption sentence in history

Chicago high school seniors bring in $12.5 million in college scholarship offers in a single day

Announcement: Registration for the ‘Be Exceptional’ Spring Break College Tour open

Former inmate-turned-mentor challenges gang members to turn their lives around

Memphis kindergarten teacher allegedly locks 5-year-old in closet, goes home sick

Mostly white male students taking AP computer science course

Family left with more questions than answers to details surrounding Alfred Wright’s mysterious death

African pop singer debuts skin lightening cream, & it sells out

Cops beat deaf man for 7 minutes because he didn’t respond to them

Study: People remember educated black men as having lighter skin

Family of unarmed man shot 10 times by police files lawsuit

16-year-old says he suffered serious injuries during stop-and-frisk, arrest

Man wrongfully convicted of murder dies while waiting 46 minutes for ambulance

James Avery autopsy reveals star had a series of medical problems

Toddler in cursing video to remain with teenage mother judge rules

Juicy J awards $50,000 scholarship to biology student Zaire Holmes

Gaye family settles with Sony/ATV over ‘Blurred Lines’ lawsuit

New same-sex discrimination laws cause growing concern about LGBTQ safety in Nigeria

UPDATE: Case of cop who killed unarmed man shot 10 times goes to grand jury

Firefighter suspended for 12 hours after painting racist symbol on ax

MLK twerking flyers strike again: Bernice King responds

Kanye West under investigation for punching teen who hurled racial slurs at him

Report: Chicago Public School administrators faked data to pad school enrollment, gain additional resources

Kendrick Johnson honored one year after mysterious death, family still demands justice

After 19 months, Cece McDonald freed from men’s prison

Lawsuits claim private prison company covered up youth sexual abuse

In 2013, not one black artist had a no.1 single

Harry Belafonte inducted into Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, encourages black men to stand up against domestic violence

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