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Video: Hammond family sues police for excessive force after being tased during routine traffic stop

Report: teachers expect less from students of color

Eric Garner’s family files $75 million civil suit against NYC, NYPD

Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan succumbs to virus

Involuntary manslaughter charge dropped against cop who killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones

Gay marriage legal in five more states as Supreme Court continues to clear way for equality

Famed entertainer Geoffrey Holder dead at 84

Video: Cheerios releases well-received ad featuring white same-sex couple with black child

Video: Demonstrators in Ferguson interrupt STL symphony with harmonious protest

Family of woman who died in Missouri jail cell demands answers

Report: U.S. high school dropout rate reaches new low, driven by improvements by blacks, Hispanics

Symptoms of Ebola present in patient at Howard University Hospital

Heisman candidate Todd Gurley falsely accused of assault, video shows white male committed crime

After Mike Brown killing, voter registration surges in Ferguson

Officials: civil rights charges against George Zimmerman unlikely

Teacher fired for defending 9-year-old who was called n-word by bullies

California equalizes state’s drug sentencing

Transgender activist CeCe McDonald to speak at the University of Chicago this month

Residents in St. Louis call for Young Thug to be banned from performing in city

South Carolina trooper who shot man reaching for wallet claims he feared for his life

Black youth told to leave Park Slope by NYPD

Boston Herald cartoonist says sorry, calls Obama watermelon cartoon an innocent mistake

Video: police shoots 62-year-old woman with taser

Ferguson grand jury under investigation for misconduct

Update: family of brain-dead teen wants her declared ‘alive’

Justice for Jordan Davis: jury finds Michael Dunn guilty of first-degree murder

Walmart blames Tracy Morgan for deadly car accident, says he should’ve wore seatbelt

Cop fatally shoots man in own driveway, charges filed against officer

Boston Herald cartoon mocks Obama intruder situation, has him asking president for watermelon

Georgia man shot dead by police while handcuffed

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