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Former NASA employee launches diversity-filled emoji app

Justice for Renisha: Ted Wafer said he didn’t know the gun was loaded

Police arrest woman who left kids in hot car to get job application

Video: second incident of an NYPD officer choking a suspect emerges

14-year-old couldn’t find a job, now he’s the CEO of his own business

Report: blacks disproportionately fined for legal weed use in Seattle

Like other companies, Twitter also comes up short on diversity

Research from Temple University could lead to cure for AIDS

Report: for every $1 a white man makes, black women earn 62 cents

Doc Rivers to quit job as Clippers coach if Donald Sterling still owns team

NYPD report: ‘Eric Garner was not in great distress’

New details emerge as Renisha McBride trial begins

Mother who lost 11-year-old due to stray bullet speaks out

Update: Marissa Alexander denied new hearing, still faces 60 years in prison

19-year-old is on his way to curing colon cancer

NY cop who placed Eric Garner in chokehold has history of complaints

Giants condemned for hiring anti-gay director of team development

BYP100 makes list of ‘Leaders of the New School’

Isaiah Austin offered job with NBA

Mother arrested for letting child play while she worked loses job

Student who went to MIT at 14 still shines today

Tony Dungy on Michael Sam: ‘I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it’

Obama calls for an end to job bias against gays, signs executive order

New York approves segregation proposal in high-rises

Queen Like Me: new children’s book tells stories of powerful black women

All but three of America’s wealthiest families are white

Tuskegee Airmen statues vandalized in Chicago

President Obama adds to ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative

Justice for Renisha McBride: jury selection for Ted Wafer trial to begin

Residents in South Carolina find bags of candy from KKK on lawns

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