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40,000 registered voters absent from Georgia preliminary voter rolls

Office of Civil Rights updates policy addressing racial disparities in American schools

Student pepper-sprayed for recording police officer in Texas

Study: when shown photos of black voters, whites have greater support for voter ID laws

Second medical worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola

U.S. Army ‘concerned about lack of officers of color,’ plans to expand recruiting efforts

C.D.C. to dispatch response teams to hospitals with Ebola diagnosis

Protestors in Ferguson shut down Walmart in solidarity with John Crawford

Woman sparks controversy by dressing in blackface as ‘Walking Dead’ character

Study: Charter schools have made segregation worse in Chicago

New project prompts whites to explore what it’s like to be white in America

Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia hold ‘die-in’ demonstration in protest of police mistreatment in Ferguson

Gymnast Simone Biles makes history at the World Gymnastics Championships

Ferguson October: police arrest Cornel West

Detroit cop suspended after being caught wearing murder victim’s watch

Report: people of color have tech degrees, they just don’t get hired

Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood to host first annual 5k this November

Report: black males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than whites

Video: St. Louis police pepper-spray peaceful protesters during Ferguson’s ‘Weekend of Resistance’

St. Louis now has five fatal police shootings under investigation

Judges strike down Wisconsin, Texas voter ID laws

Adrian Peterson facing jail time after pot admission

Video: Cops knock out teen for smoking cigarette

Spike Lee to make documentary on Mo’ne Davis and her Little League team

Relatives of Aunt Jemima hit brand with lawsuit

Inmate beaten to death at Florida jail after reporting threats by guard

2014 sees a record number of African Americans running for Congress

Another 18-year-old fatally shot by police in Ferguson, protests ensue

Supreme Court approves some of the worst voting restrictions in the country

Teen pepper-sprayed in own home after cops mistake him for intruder

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