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GOP Senator flames Attorney General Jeff Sessions as fight for overhauling drug sentences continues

Israel’s nativist right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces calls for corruption charges from state police

After theater buyouts for kids to see ‘Black Panther,’ group organizes one for Black girls to see ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

Trump proposes budget that would cut NPR, PBS and NEA, among other public works programs

Aetna medical director admits to denying coverage without looking at patients’ records

Last year’s disasters have uprooted Black people from middle class status in the Virgin Islands

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward signs new two book deal

Cape Town officials push back projected timeline to run out of water

Reading proficiency in Flint down to a startling 10% years after water crisis began

Scholars for Social Justice launches with Twitter chat addressing violence against marginalized communities

Dodge bastardizes Dr. King sermon to try and sell cars in Super Bowl ad

FBI is in the process of prosecuting its first ‘Black Identity Extremist’

White supremacists are targeting colleges for racist proliferation and footholds

Fidel Castro’s eldest son, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, died by suicide

Cape Town’s severe drought could leave residents without water by April

FEMA doesn’t want that smoke, does about-face after announcing end to Puerto Rican recovery efforts

Baltimore Police hid toy guns in case ‘of a jam,’ in addition to other crimes

MSU alum Magic Johnson calls for accountability at the school following Nassar sex scandal fallout

Jemele Hill is finally out of SportsCenter after a year of controversies, joins The Undisputed

NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues Homeland Security over ending Haitian protected status

Remains of ship found in Gulf Coast could be the last known U.S. slave ship

Yance Ford becomes first trans director to receive an Oscar nomination

Dems fold on immigration, temporarily averting government shutdown

Chile admits Haitian migrants in record numbers as U.S. closes its borders to those fleeing violence

Most of the Trump inauguration protesters freed by Justice Department, 59 still facing felony charges

Lupita Nyong’o is writing a children’s book tackling colorism & self-love for little Black girls

Pre-NOI Malcolm X and Redd Foxx’s misadventures to be explored in new comedic cartoon, ‘Little Red’

Border Patrol agents ‘systematically destroy food and water aid for migrants’

Local governments still haven’t done much about toxic wastelands in communities of color

Simone Biles says she’s one of scores of girls molested by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar

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