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Rachel Jeantel, The Last Person to Talk to Trayvon Martin, Testifies at George Zimmerman Trial

Ohio School Apologizes; Lifts Ban on Afro Puffs and Braids

Ohio School Bans Afro Puffs and Braids

Mistrial Declared in Trial of Detroit Cop In Death of 7-Year Old Aiyana Stanley-Jones

OWN Network Premieres “Dark Girls” Documentary This Sunday

Teenage Sisters Launch Their Own Line of Beauty Products

11 Year-Old Girl Saves 3 Year-Old Brother’s Life by Tossing Him from Broken Fire Escape

11 Year-Old Tayloni Mazyck Paralyzed After Being Struck with Stray Bullet

Koman Willis Charged w/ 1st Degree Murder of 6-Month Old Jonylah Watkins

Kiera Wilmot Speaks Out On Science Experiment Arrest, Aftermath

Chelesa Fearce Overcomes Homelessness; Will Start College as a Junior at Spelman

Gabby Douglas is Back in the Gym!

14 Year-Old D’Asia Robinson Killed by Stray Bullet While Riding City Bus

Former NASA Engineer Awards Kiera Wilmot Scholarship to Space Academy

Charges Dropped Against 16 Year-Old Kiera Wilmot for Science Experiment Gone Wrong

After 17 Years, Long Lost Sisters Reunited at Track Meet

A 16 Year-old Black Girl, The Criminalization Of Students, And The Push For STEM Studies

Missing Six Year-Old Jashayla Markiaya Hopson Has Been Found

15 Year-Old Saheela Ibraheem Accepted into Harvard…and 13 Other Colleges!

Stacey Ann-Gooden: My Biracial Daughter Thinks She’s White

House Honors Four Little Girls Killed in Birmingham Church Bombing

Golf Prodigy Ginger Howard is Youngest Member of LPGA

Teacher Accused of Molestation Claims She’s Racist; Wouldn’t Feel Comfortable Touching a Black Child

13 Year-Old Shardae Simmonds Uses CPR to Save Her Father’s Life

Chicago Youth on Gun Violence: “It Feels Like We’re in a World War”

Editorial Asks “Where Are Ordinary Black Youth in Popular Culture?”

Mystery of Abandoned Toddler’s Identity Solved Thanks to Social Media

Father Indicted After Beating His Daughters Over “Twerking” Video

Moms Start Petition Demanding Mattel Make Barbie Accessories for People of Color

College Student Returns Lost Wallet Containing $1,000

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