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GOP's Only Black Senator Now Leads on Race
Initially reluctant to focus on race, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is now a leading Republican voice, teaching his party what it’s like to be a Black man in America when the police lights are flashing in the rearview
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Mother of Louisville Police Shooting Victim Calls For Peace
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Looking to defuse tensions in Louisville over the fatal shooting of a black woman by police who broke down her door, the victim’s mother on Friday called on protesters to continue demanding justice but to do it in “the right way without hurting each
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Four Minneapolis Officers Fired After Death of Black Man
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was
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Black supremacy
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12-year-old “I Just Wanna Live” singer Keedron Bryant signs record deal with Warner
Now, he’s landed a record deal with Warner Records and released his song as a single, according to The Associated
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Expanded Rooney Rule to require more interviews
The NFL is amending the Rooney Rule to require more interviews of minority candidates for head coaching and coordinator positions, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated
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NASA astronauts go back to the future with capsule launch
SpaceX’s Dragon crew capsule outshines NASA’s old Apollo spacecraft in virtually every
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Black Americans four times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19: Medicare data
Black Americans were nearly four times more likely than white Americans to be hospitalized with COVID-19 among people with Medicare, according to data released by the
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Will charges be brought in Rayshard Brooks homicide? [VIDEO]
Maybe the grilling was due diligence, maybe the cops were giving Rayshard Brooks an opportunity to get it together, but in the end, one officer’s decision to shoot the 27-year-old husband and father twice in the back as he fled on foot is another law enforcement
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Headline-Making Missteps Put Focus on Newsroom Diversity
Nobody anticipated it would lead to a staff revolt and become a national story, part of an extraordinary week where the news media’s sluggishness in building diverse newsrooms became part of the national
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Drumming Legend Jimmy Cobb Passes Away At 91
Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died
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Juneteenth: A Day of Joy and Pain – and Now National Action | Afro
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2 Republicans Opposed By Trump Win In N. Carolina, Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Voters rebuffed President Donald Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky on
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Gilead's $2,340 Price For Coronavirus Drug Draws Criticism
The maker of a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill COVID-19 patients says it will charge $2,340 for a typical treatment course for people covered by government health programs in the United States and other developed
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Biden says he was too 'cavalier' about black Trump backers
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden declared he “should not have been so cavalier” on Friday when he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump
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Pennsylvania Man Saves Police Officer from Burning Cruiser Despite Pending Lawsuit for Wrongful Arrest
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Will charges be brought in Rayshard Brooks homicide? [VIDEO]
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Congress weighs choice: 'Go big' on virus aid or hit 'pause'
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Missouri officers accused of assaulting black woman, son
Andrew M. Stroth of the Chicago-based Action Injury Law Group said Marvia Gray was especially traumatized by how her son was treated given other high-profile incidents involving white officers and black men, including the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, another St. Louis
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'We're sick of it': Anger over police killings shatters US
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Americans awoke Sunday to charred and glass-strewn streets in dozens of cities after another night of unrest fueled by rage over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of police, who responded to the violence with tear gas and rubber
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Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns From Board, Urges Black Replacement
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