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Robert E. Lee’s descendant leaves church after supporting BLM

Spelman to admit transgender students starting in 2018

Chance the Rapper raises $2.2 for Chicago Public Schools

Fund named in honor of Philando Castile to make sure students get lunches

David Clarke resigns as Milwaukee County Sheriff

Cop could lose job after telling woman ‘We only kill Black people’

Teenager who was attacked by police dogs over mistaken identity files claim

Texas Best Buy apologizes for raising prices for water bottles

Los Angeles city council replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

Virginia church finds racist, antisemitic flyers that claim “day of rope is coming”

Black Louisiana teens charged after being hit by truck while the driver wasn’t

Man claims Black man stabbed him for his Neo-Nazi haircut, then admits he lied

Trump reportedly wants to give cops back their military gear

Beyoncé pledges to give aid to hometown of Houston following Harvey

Hurricane Harvey floods force Houston residents to evacuate, leaves others stranded in high waters

White supremacist charged with firing gun at Charlottesville rally while police did nothing

Black Girls Code turns down $125K donation from Uber

Erica DeValve, wife of Cleveland Brown’s player, reminds us not to make him a “white savior”

White South African farmers convicted for forcing Black man into a coffin

Car drives through crowd at vigil for Kiwi Herring, trans woman killed by police

Governor stays execution of Marcellus Williams, man convicted of a murder DNA evidence suggests he didn’t commit

Bill Cosby retrial pushed back to 2018

Baltimore prosecutors throw out more cases following third fake body-camera video

Secret Service can’t pay agents anymore for guarding Trump

Woman breaks silence to accuse R. Kelly of underage sexual abuse

Death toll nears 500 following landslide in Sierra Leone

Duke and University of Texas remove Confederate statues from campus

Teen charged after killing mother’s abusive boyfriend

I Will Tell If You Don’t: HBCUs, Gender, and Sexual Violence

12-year-old Black boy arrested for riding on the back of a bike in Evanston, IL

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