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A 16 Year-old Black Girl, The Criminalization Of Students, And The Push For STEM Studies

Principal Fires Security Guards and Invests in Arts Programs; Transforms School!

FBI to Add Assata Shakur to Most Wanted Terrorist List; Double Reward for Her Capture

Mountain Dew Pulls Tyler, The Creator Ad After Accusations of Racism

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3 Dead, At Least 17 Wounded in Shootings Overnight in Chicago

Why Hasn’t Ce Ce Acoff Received the Respect She Deserves?

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NY Mayor Bloomberg: Critics of Stop and Frisk are Encouraging “Lawless Mayhem State”

Teen Girl Charged w/ Felony Over Ill-Advised Science Experiment

Danish Scientists Close to HIV Cure

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Shannon Matesky About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

15 Year-Old Saheela Ibraheem Accepted into Harvard…and 13 Other Colleges!

Stacey Ann-Gooden: My Biracial Daughter Thinks She’s White

George Zimmerman Will NOT Seek “Stand Your Ground” Immunity Hearing

Does Jason Collins Coming Out Change Anything for the Black Queer Community?

Jason Collins on Coming Out: “I’m the happiest that I’ve ever been in my life”

Police Investigate Racist Bullying at Philadelphia Catholic School

Recognizing Link Between Emotional Trauma and Youth Violence

Emmett Till’s Family Plan to Pressure Mountain Dew to End Endorsement Deal w/ Lil Wayne

Who You Calling A B*tch? MC Lyte Talks About Violence, and the Disrespect of Women in Rap Music

NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”

In 2012, Black Voters Surpassed White Turnout for First Time Ever

UC Irvine Frat Sparks Outrage with Blackface Video: “He was trying to be Jay-Z…”

Nobel Prize Winner Gary Becker Advocates Paying Parents for Student Performance

[T]here’s Daddy

Georgia’s Wilcox High School Set to Hold Its First Integrated Prom

Tales from a Black Filled Childhood: Who Will Lead My Black Generation…No One?

10 Rappers That Should Have Made The XXL Freshman List

The League of Young Voters Launch #NoGunsAllowed Campaign

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