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Court blocks stop-and-frisk ruling

Lawmaker who said he would vote for slavery retracts statement

Student offends staff at school by dressing like Jesus for Halloween

Morehouse College releases ‘Body Issue’ to highlight abuse, black sexuality

Job well done: Connecticut teen is the epitome of good sportsmanship

Department of Justice to investigate death of Kendrick Johnson

Texas’ tough abortion restrictions reinstated by court

Juror B-29: ‘the Zimmerman trial ruined my life’

Woman plans to hand out fat letters in place of candy this Halloween

Perry “Pebbles” Reid responds to portrayal in TLC biopic, threatens lawsuit

White teen who dressed as a “n***er” for Halloween to critics: ‘worry about finding your dad’

Community members hold funeral to “bury violence in Newark”

Bail hearing scheduled for Marissa Alexander

Famous but underage: Miley Cyrus drinking, Earvin Johnson III spotted in nightclub

White woman who posted racist Halloween picture fired

Man captured, held for murdering 5 people in small Texas town

Marvin Gaye’s children respond to Robin Thicke, Pharrell with lawsuit

17 years later: a black woman recalls protecting a white klansman

Are new security measures to blame for racial profiling?

NBA star Jason Collins made history, but is his career history because of it?

‘Scandal’ star Kerry Washington expecting her first child

#Stopblackgirls2013: the latest offensive hashtag demeaning black women

Chris Brown enters rehab after recent domestic dispute, faces possible prison time

Pastor tells congregation that $1.6 million home is ‘a gift from God’

Food stamps to be cut by $5 billion this week

Music teacher on leave after racist Facebook post about black students

Darrell Wallace Jr. becomes first black to win NASCAR in 50 years

Jim Wheeler says comments about reinstating slavery out of context

Jesse Jackson Jr. reports to prison early

Sybrina Fulton: ‘make Stand Your Ground clearer’

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