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Haitian Lives Matter: Immigration is a Black issue

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eight minority corrections officers who work at the jail holding a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd allege that they were barred from guarding or having contact with the officer because of their

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Trump then tweeted an all-caps missive with many of the debunked claims he’s been pushing all year: “RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND

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Black Student Accepted into Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Launches Company to End Gun Violence – Free Press of Jacksonville

Nationwide — RuQuan “Ru” Brown, a 17-year old high school senior from Seattle who has excelled in his classes and sports, has been recently accepted into 24 colleges including Harvard, Yale, and

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After spending nearly a decade in prison, he has turned one of the darkest times in his life into purpose through the creation of his platform Flikshop, which is designed to keep families connected with their incarcerated loved

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Today, in a 29-page opinion, after years of federal court litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump Administration’s 2017 effort to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, protecting approximately 700,000 DACA recipients from deportation and allowing

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A viral video showed a Black woman being thrown into a dumpster on the night of June 15 by a group of Black men in Black Lives Matter attire — including two young DC rappers named Fat Rodney and Cruddy Murda — after spewing inappropriate comments at

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Black Student Accepted into Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Launches Company to End Gun Violence

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