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NYC Art Exhibit Allows Strangers to Touch Various Textures of Black Hair

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

Bullet Intended for Alleged Gang Member Strikes 9 Year-Old

White Supremacist Sentenced to 10 Years for Arson Attack on African American Home

Jordan Davis Receives Honorary HS Diploma

Philadelphia to Close 23 Public Schools While Building $400 Million Prison

Complaint Filed Against Texas Federal Judge Alleging Racial Bias

REPORT: 75 Percent of Students Arrested in Chicago Public Schools Are Black

New Report Sheds Light on Police Harassment of Transgender Women of Color

Rhymes and Reasons Interviews Jacinda Bullie About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

Alicia Keys WILL Perform in Israel Despite Objections from Alice Walker and Others

Community Members, Union Leaders, Gang Members Unite to Protest Closing of South Side Hospital

STUDY: Blacks Are Nearly 4 Times As Likely As Whites of Being Arrested for Pot Possession

140 People Arrested in Latest North Carolina NAACP Protests

18 Year-Old Dionte Maxwell Shot and Killed When Strangers Crashed Family BDay Party

Dwyane Wade Backs ‘This Is Fatherhood’ Campaign

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

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George Zimmerman’s Attorneys Apologize for Mischaracterizing Evidence

Chicago School Closings, Linked-Fate, and the Power of a Shared Experience

9 Year-Old Activist Asean Johnson Continues Fight Against Chicago School Closings

Cheerios Commercial Featuring Interracial Family Ignites Racist Backlash

St. Louis Police Under Fire After Shooting Black Honor Student 25 Times

22 Year-Old Cortlan Wickliff is Youngest African American to Graduate from Harvard Law

Ohio Health Program Lets Teens Teach Their Peers About Sex

Bobby Rush Calls IL Sen. Kirk’s Chicago Gang Plan “Upper-Middle Class, Elitist White Boy Solution”

Cultivating Black Male Complexity: Lessons Learned from Working with Black Male Youth

Black 14 Year-Old Carrying a Puppy Attacked by Police for Giving Them a “Dehumanizing Stare”

VA Gov. Bob McDonnell Commits to Expediting Restoration of Voting Rights for Non-Violent Felons

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