2013

Trey Songz, Harold ‘Noonie’ Ward hold ‘Christmas in the Hood’ annual toy drive for at-risk youth

Lawmakers in Oklahoma seek to reinstate prayer in schools with Christmas, Hanukah bills

Video of Sharkeisha assaulting innocent bystander leads to arrest of viral sensation

Beef: NBC commentator Touré calls CNN’s Don Lemon a ‘White leader’

Chief Keef says new mixtape will ‘raise the murder rate’

Ebenezer Baptist Church joins family of Kendrick Johnson, demands probe into teen’s mysterious death

All I Want for Christmas

Black teen pregnancy at historic low

UPDATE: Police officer who shot at minivan full of children fired, plans to appeal

Black man attacked, called gay slurs by Jewish men while walking home

Survey: Life of today’s millennial of color more complex than assumed

From tragedy to inspiration: woman who grew up in foster system defies odds

Man says he wasn’t a victim of ‘Knockout’ game because it’s just a media fabrication

UPDATE: Zimmerman’s girlfriend wants charges dropped so they can ‘talk and be together’

‘Sworn officers’ from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department face arrest amid abuse probe

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

New York Times article sheds light into life of homeless child

‘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

Why I Paid Tribute to the Great Nelson Mandela

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

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