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A shocking response to a black artist playing dead by a Philadelphia landmark

Floyd Mayweather’s inability to read is anything but funny

Ferguson schools prep for emotional first day back

Where’s the outrage for this 9-year-old’s execution?

What parents tell their black sons about the police

Transgender woman wins right to be herself

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It’s bigger than Ferguson, a white cop kills a black person nearly twice a week in America

Police kill black women too

Sybrina Fulton pins open letter to Michael Brown’s parents

The price of blackness in America

Op-ed: Michael Brown and Black Men

Report: white on white crime rate exceeds that of black on black crime

The demonization of a black, unarmed teen is well underway

Here’s how Anonymous changed the Ferguson protests

Steadiest gigs are on TV for female rappers

We Charge Genocide: From Gaza to The Bronx

‘Chicagoland’ student talks life after being shot

Just call me black American

A mother’s account of what it’s like to lose your child to gun violence

The black HIV epidemic: a health mystery in Atlanta’s gay community

Dropout Nation: poverty is the effect

College isn’t the answer, reparations are

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