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Video: C-SPAN callers use Civil Rights show to complain about white oppression

BYP100: ‘violence in Chicago is very personal’

Former inmate creates million dollar company

Residents in Minneapolis slam Bar Louie dress code

Report: more than 73% of homeowners are white, compared to 43% of blacks

Award-winning director Alton Glass makes history, wins in all nominated categories at Black Film Festival

Columbus Short: ‘the last three months have been the most trying times of my life’

Report: more than 55% of black households are ‘underbanked’ or ‘unbanked’

Newspaper headline refers to Obama as ‘The n***er in the White House’

Vandals deface MLK bridge in Indiana

The National Association of Black Storytellers is now accepting entries

Video: Ad showing black boy being fed like a dog sparks outrage

Video: Family demands that cop who beat woman face charges

Update: more than 60 Nigerian girls and women escape kidnappers

More than 60 shot, at least 9 dead over holiday weekend in Chicago

14-year-old boy risks life to save disabled man, dog from deadly fire

Video: man arrested for sleeping on train

Report: 1 in 5 black kids view race as an obstacle

Here’s how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could protect LGBT workers

Video: ‘urban music is destroying black youth’

After amazing performance at World Cup, Tim Howard ‘randomly’ drug tested

Senior citizen jailed over $500 debt

Vice Admiral makes history, becomes first 4-star female admiral

Chicago Film festival tells stories of black LGBTQ community

Ruling: officer who killed Oscar Grant cleared of lawsuit

Residents, city officials celebrate Whole Foods ground breaking ceremony in Englewood

A list of empowering books for little black girls

Louis Vuitton sued over manager’s slave comment about African employees

Fast food worker says she was forced to clean floors, bathrooms with toothbrush

50 years ago today: In memory of the Civil Rights movement

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