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Video: Harvard students attempt to take 1964 literacy test and fail

Prominent pastor Myles Munroe among 9 dead in plane crash

Lupita Nyong’o opens up about comments made about dark skin in Glamour interview

Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch seen as strong civil rights defender

Jackie Robinson West squad visits the White House

Loretta Lynch emerges as possible attorney general replacement

Vikings running back Adrian Peterson dropped from Nike

Report: black students 4 four times more likely to attend high-poverty schools

Activists in Chicago call for investigation into fatal police shootings

Chicago-area police kill man in hospital emergency room

Chicago police captain convicted of torturing blacks receives $4,000 monthly pension

‘Negro’ still an acceptable term to use when referencing blacks in U.S. Army

Update: Woman abducted safely returned to family, suspect in custody

7-year-old Blake Ansari makes Kohl’s Foundation Regional Philanthropist for 2014 list

Comedian Artie Lang fires off racist, sexist tweets about Cari Champion

$47,000 reward offered for return of missing Philadelphia woman

Police gearing up for riots ahead of grand jury decision in Ferguson

Lupita graces cover of Glamour’s ‘Women of the Year’ issue

Black Republicans Mia Love and Tim Scott make history

Charges brought against NYPD officers who assaulted teen

Report: poor black women evicted as much as black men are incarcerated

Wayne Brady reveals struggle with depression

Texas sees surge in number of disenfranchised voters

Philadelphia woman’s abduction captured on video

Activists in Ferguson protest St. Louis Post-Dispatch coverage

Boko Haram laughs off Nigeria’s ceasefire agreement, several girls married off

Survey Illuminates Impact of Discrimination on LGBT People in Nepal

Alabama school officials hire former FBI agent to spy on black students

Ferguson police say no-fly zone imposed due to media

Chicago Defender appoints Kai El’ Zabar as publication’s first female director

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