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Why Little Black Children Will Spend Yet Another Generation Dealing With Private Companies to Access Healthcare

Chicago Public Schools Announce 54 School Closures, Nearly 30,000 Students Affected

Black Masculinity in the Age of Barack Obama & Chief Keef

Chicago Nightclub Shooting: What Was 13 Year-old Rapper Lil’ Mouse Doing There?

President Obama to Designate Harriet Tubman Park a National Monument

‘Things Fall Apart’ Author Chinua Achebe Dead at 82

Sorry Jada, the Short Answer is “No”

REPORT: Half of People Shot by Police are Mentally Ill

NYPD Whistleblowers Say Stop and Frisk Abuse Was Propelled by Quota System; Called ‘Rats’ by Fellow Officers

Detroit Students Organize March to Protest School-to-Prison Pipeline

Chicago Public Schools Reportedly Closing Over 50 Schools

Massachusetts Sheriff Refuses to Apologize for Obama Assassination Joke

Jada Pinkett Smith: Black Magazines Should Put White Women on Covers, and Vice Versa

Fordham Student Sandra Arnold Creates Database to Protect Slave Burial Sites

Common Discusses His Efforts to Give Back to His Hometown

15 Year-Old Pakistani Activist Malala Yousafzai is Back in School After Being Shot by Taliban

Reality Superstar Uses Platform to Motivate Young America

Lessons in Hate: Is it Okay to Invite Nazis, KKK Members to Speak at High Schools?

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Yoli Zapata About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

Mourners Pack South Side Church for Jonylah Watkins Funeral

16 Year-Old Arrell Monegan Gunned Down in Gage Park in Case of Mistaken Identity

REPORT: Top Universities Failing to Attract High-Achieving, Low-Income Students

Officers Who Killed Kimani Gray Have Been Sued Multiple Times for Civil Rights Violations

NYPD Will Now Run Criminal Background Checks on Victims of Domestic Violence

Jesus is White and Obama is the Devil in The History Channel Bible

‘White Student Union’ Members Defend Slavery and Segregation at CPAC

RNC To Spend $10 Million to Reach Out to Minorities

Stop-and-Frisk Trial Begins Today

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