It was a much different scene than 11 months ago at 9420 W. Florissant Avenue in Ferguson....
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S.C. House Approves Bill To Remove Confederate Flag From Statehouse
More than 50 years after South Carolina raised a Confederate flag at its Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement, the state is getting ready to remove the rebel banner....
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Gary Younge: Farewell to America
After 12 years in the US, Gary Younge is preparing to depart – as the country’s racial frictions seem certain to spark another summer of conflict...
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Why We’re Launching ‘Black Health Matters’
The inequalities African Americans battle are plenty and severe — but the widening health gap is arguably among one of the most crucial and inadequately addressed concerns....
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Kids With Incarcerated Parents Find Support, Encouragement With This Brooklyn Program
The United States’ incarcerated population — the largest in the world — is at the heart of several national debates: People argue about the economic burden it places on the federal budget, how inmates...
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Secondhand Smoke Is Making Us and Our Children Sick
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows twice as many African-American adults and children are exposed to toxic smoke at our jobs, in our homes and our cars....
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“3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets” Doc Gives Life To Jordan Davis Tragedy
Jordan Davis was a real live American boy, with an open face, anchored by a dazzling smile. He lived with swag, vitality, and promise....
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Hillary Clinton engages in conversation on race at Christ The King
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a roaring applause from the majority black audience at Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant when she told them that the Confederate battle flag, “shouldn’t...
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David Oyelowo: I won’t play a ‘black best friend,’ other black stereotypes
When David Oyelowo’s parents told him that he had a royal background, he dismissed their claims as fairy tales – until he moved to Nigeria and lived on a street named after his family....
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Juneteenth Is for Everyone
As meaningful as Independence Day itself, Juneteenth completes the circle, reaffirming “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as the rights of all, not a select few....
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Charleston Church Shooter Is Arrested In North Carolina
Police have described the attack as a “hate crime” and the suspected shooter, Dylann Roof, 21, was arrested during a traffic stop in North Carolina....
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Why The Charleston Church Shooting Is An Act Of Terrorism
Why Recognizing The Charleston Church Shooting As An Act Of Racially Motivated Terrorism Is Only The First Step...
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Ferguson gets a Boys & Girls Club
U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay said he understands why Ferguson would welcome a new Boys & Girls Club....
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Civil Settlement Reached In Case Of Renisha McBride, Unarmed Black Woman Shot On Porch
A civil settlement has been reached in the case of a 19-year-old black woman who was killed by a white homeowner on his porch in 2013....
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We Must Make Police Brutality Against Black Women an Issue in 2016
Black women are victims of violence at higher rates than all other groups of women, yet in the debate over police brutality they are left out in the cold....
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Social justice art display pulled from high school lobby after complaints
Honors students at Oxon Hill High School were asked to create an art project depicting what social justice meant to them....
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Montel Williams Is Right: DeRay Mckesson Is ‘No MLK’ And That’s Just Fine
Montel Williams, the former talk-show host best known for a program that ended over seven years ago, tweeted on Wednesday criticizing DeRay Mckesson, who is among the most widely recognized and respected young black...
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Judge Supports Murder Charges Against Police Officers In Tamir Rice Case
A judge has supported murder charges against the police officers set to stand trial for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, NBC News reports....
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Black Union Soldier Finally Honored Almost 100 Years After Death
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle finally received recognition Sunday, nearly 100 years after he...
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Michael Slager, Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott In South Carolina, Indicted For Murder
A grand jury has indicted a former South Carolina police officer in the April shooting of an unarmed black man, the prosecutor announced on Monday....
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Ohio Man Posts Emotional Video After He Is Badly Beaten Trying to Help His Community
Ronald Moon Jr. quit his job to restore his family home in hopes of turning it into a community center....
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Regional leaders start loan fund for minority and women contractors
When Floyd Simms founded his contracting business in 2003, he took his life’s savings and “bet it all on Simms,” he said....
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Slaves Who Died in 1794 Cape Town Shipwreck are Remembered
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Against a backdrop of exclusive, sea-view apartments in Cape Town, South African and American researchers on Tuesday paid tribute at the spot where slaves died when the Portuguese...
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Whites are moving back into Detroit as blacks leave
DETROIT (AP) — Whites are moving back to the American city that came to epitomize white flight, even as blacks continue to leave for the suburbs and the city’s overall population shrinks....
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