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WATCH: Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) Releases PSA Condemning NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy

Dillard U. President: Why Did Dr. Dre Donate $35 Million to USC, and Not a Black College?

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

Lose Scholarship or Complete Racist Assignment: Which Would You Choose?

To All Afraid of the ‘Ghetto’ Continued

18 Year-Old Eesha Khare Invents Device that Charges Cell Phones in 30 Seconds

Does Obama Unfairly Hold African Americans to a Different Standard?

Dear Thurgood Marshall Jr, Why Are You On The Board Of Directors For CCA?

Nat. Science Foundation Awards Clemson $5 Mill Grant to Advance Blacks in Computer Science

Bronx Bus Tour Shows NYC Tourists What a “Real Ghetto” Looks Like

Dozens Arrested in Chicago School Closing Protests

If We the New Slaves, When Are We Gonna Get Free?

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

Michelle Obama at Bowie State: Too many young people “fantasize about being a baller or a rapper”

Kanye West’s “New Slaves” Rails Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

Murder of Mark Carson in NY’s Greenwich Village Being Investigated as Antigay Hate Crime

Pres. Obama’s Morehouse Commencement Speech Raises Eyebrows

Why Did You (Really) Get Married?

“I Make HIV Look Soo Good”: The Politics of Disease, Stigma, and Self-Worth

STUDY: Body Mass Index of Low-Income African Americans Linked to Proximity to Fast Food

Father and Son to Graduate from Morehouse Together This Sunday

Oakland Youth Speak Truth to Power at NAACP Leadership Conference

To All Afraid of the ‘Ghetto’

Former NASA Engineer Awards Kiera Wilmot Scholarship to Space Academy

Kindergartner Uses Knowledge of His ABCs to Save Dad’s Life

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

David Dennis: Why isn’t New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting a ‘national tragedy’?

Judge Throws Out Manslaughter Charges Against Cop Accused of Killing Ramarley Graham

Milwaukee Set to Become Fifth City Where Fast Food Workers Strike

L.A. Unified School District Votes to Ban Suspensions for “Willful Defiance”

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