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‘Things Fall Apart’ Author Chinua Achebe Dead at 82

Fordham Student Sandra Arnold Creates Database to Protect Slave Burial Sites

Mourners Pack South Side Church for Jonylah Watkins Funeral

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

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

Kimani Gray’s Mother: ‘He Was Slaughtered, And I Want to Know Why’

Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose Will Pay for Jonylah Watkins’ Funeral

According to Med Examiner, Kimani Gray Was Shot Seven Times; Hit Three Times in the Back

Vigil Held for 6 Month-Old Jonylah Watkins; $11,000 Reward Offered for Information on Shooter

Brooklyn Teens Take to The Streets After Shooting of 16 Year-Old Kimani Gray by NYPD

Family of Rekia Boyd Could Receive $4.5 Million Settlement w/ City of Chicago

Marco McMillian’s Family and Gay Rights Advocates Call for Hate Crime Investigation

BREAKING: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Has Died

George Zimmerman Will NOT Use ‘Stand Your Ground’ Defense at Trial

‘Smoking Gun’ Email Revealed in Michael Jackson Wrongful Death Suit

12 Charged with Manslaughter in Hazing Death of Robert Champion

Georgia Police Notify Mother of Son’s Death via FACEBOOK?!

Epic Records Responds to Lil Wayne Controversy, Will Pull Offensive Emmett Till Line

Murder-Suicide Leaves Three U. of Maryland Students Dead

2 Charged with Murder in Hadiya Pendleton Shooting

Chicago Police Set to File Charges Against Two Suspects in Hadiya Pendleton Shooting

One Year Later, Remembering Whitney Houston

Hundreds Gather to Attend Funeral for Hadiya Pendleton

Washington Post’s Rahiel Tesfamariam: Why won’t Obama stand up for Chicago’s slain youth?

First Lady Michelle Obama Will Attend Hadiya Pendleton’s Funeral

3 Year-Old Temorej Smith Kills Himself w/ Pink Gun He Thought Was A Toy

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Will Speak at Hadiya Pendleton’s Funeral

Rev. Jesse Jackson: COME HOME, MR. PRESIDENT

After Hadiya: A Plan for School Safety

CPS Students Organize March in Honor of Hadiya Pendelton

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