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Get Away to These 4 Luxurious Black-Owned Hotels and B&Bs
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How Planting Trees Helped This Ex-Offender Turn His Life Around
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Everyone Is About To Know Ezra Edelman’s Name
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Detroit Youths Win National Chess Competition
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W. Kamau Bell Shares His Experience Meeting The Ku Klux Klan
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Harriet Tubman Gets Historical National Park In New York
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Obama Praises Black Lives Matter, But Says Activists Must Compromise
He said once elected officials are ready to meet with activists, organizers “can’t just keep on yelling at them.”...
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‘The Color Purple’ Cast’s Powerful Prince Rendition Will Choke You Up
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How Rio’s Olympics Destroyed a Favela, but Not the Spirit of a Candomblé Priestess
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Earth Day 2016: 5 Black Communities That Are Fighting Environmental Threats
As the world celebrates efforts to preserve the planet, these communities are simply battling for the right to live in toxic-free neighborhoods....
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