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Pastor commits suicide in front of pleading son one year after wife’s death

‘Bill of Rights’ created to stop racial profiling

NAACP, John Legend join fight to restore Voting Rights Act

MC Hammer sued, owes $800,000 in back taxes

NYPD charges unarmed man, blames him for making them shoot innocent bystanders

Woman falsely accuses 3 Black men of ‘Knockout’ game attack

Mom loses son, earns college degree in his honor

Report: ATF used ‘rogue tactics,’ supplied mentally ill minors with alcohol & drugs to execute sting operations

BP oil exec fired, told to save braids and ethnic wear for ‘culture day’

College student uses internet in hopes of renting a family for the holidays

Teen beat to death by two white men

For Black students in California, achievement gap remains

Offensive? Artist creates ‘food stamp table,’ sells it for $12K

African American girl told to cut, shape hair will not be expelled

Princeton University jazz composer inspires with ‘Ballad for Trayvon Martin’

Black police officer says she was racially profiled, falsely arrested by white cops while off duty

Black high school football player’s home spray-painted with racial slur, investigation yields strange findings

Nelson Mandela’s funeral scheduled for December 15

BREAKING: Nelson Mandela dead at 95

Morehouse makes GQ’s list of ’25 Douchiest Colleges’

Despite consistent injuries, Derrick Rose vows to never stop playing basketball

Heisman Trophy front-runner Jameis Winston cleared of sexual battery charges

CNN guest self defense instructor compares ‘Knockout’ game to animal kingdom

Report: higher education not paying off for black men

Poll: Young voter support for President Obama declines

Macy’s subpeonaed by Commission on Human Rights for failing to submit information for racial profiling case

Latest cartoon depicts President Obama as Ape

New report reveals that credit card debt is worse for African Americans

City of Miami Gardens hit with police abuse,racial profiling lawsuit

Fast food workers plan another round of strikes, demand higher wages

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