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Dave Chappelle donates $50,000 from show to Flint

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs bill to ban out-of-school suspensions for young students

Bill Cosby jury begins deliberations for sexual assault trial

Black high school student Aina Adewunmi speaks out after seeing picture of herself being lynched

Innocent Kansas City man released from prison after 16 years due to mistaken identity

University of Chicago adult trauma center to open on city’s South Side in May 2018

Deputy and husband indicted on murder charges after killing man outside of Denny’s

White Starbucks customer calls Black customer ‘slave’ and punches pedestrian

More Than a Token: Parting reflections on being Black at the University of Chicago

The Case of Quilombo: Black Students Fight to Stay in Brazilian Universities

Amazon offers discounted Prime membership to food stamp, WIC users

Tippit Middle School in Texas calls racial harassment of student inappropriate, but not bullying

10th Trans Person of the Year, Kenne McFadden, Killed in San Antonio

Activist Marlon Peterson tells TED Talk audience ‘I am what garbage looks like’ [VIDEO]

Chokwe Lumumba wins Jackson mayoral race

Las Vegas police officer Kenneth Lopera arrested for choking unarmed Black man to death

Flint official Phil Stair resigns after being recorded saying “ni–ers don’t pay their bills”

Keshia Knight Pulliam walks Bill Cosby into court

Harvard retracts admissions of applicants who founded obscene group chat

New Yorkers try to stop ICE from arresting man, Hardat Sampat, on way to court

Michael Brown’s mother and sister get high school diplomas together

Micah Fletcher, survivor of Portland knife attack, calls out city’s “white savior complex”

Black church received $2,000 donation and apology letter from a reformed “terrible racist”

City of Oakland to pay $1M to teen sexually abused by multiple officers

Baltimore 7th grader wins individual chess championsip

Trump Pulls the US from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Noose found in National Museum of African American History

NJ Trooper suspended for repeatedly pulling women over to ask for their phone numbers

Officer who shot Tamir Rice fired for unrelated rule violations

Darius Smith, 15, killed by off-duty Border Patrol agent

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