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Homeless Crisis in Los Angeles Highlights the Fall of the Black Middle Class

Blacks make up just 9 percent of Los Angeles County’s population overall, but comprise 40 percent of the area’s homeless, pushed to the margins by decades of redlining, layoffs, mass incarceration and gentrification

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Signs Marking 'Negro Mountain’ Removed From Maryland Highways

The State Highway Administration took down a total of four signs after complaints that the Negro Mountain signage was racially insensitive.

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Colorado Cop Who Killed Unarmed De’Von Bailey Has Past of Brutality, Still Honored

The Colorado Springs police sergeant involved in the August killing of 19-year-old unarmed De’Von Bailey has once before gunned down a fleeing suspect and roughed up another person while enforcing a protection order, of all things.

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Pyer Moss Is Collaborating With A Painter Who Spent 45 Years Incarcerated For 'Collection 3'

While every fashion darling anticipates the Pyer Moss show this Sunday, the brand has been rolling out promotional videos.

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Police in Alabama planted drugs and guns on over 1,000 innocent Black men

Black men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least 12 White police officers involved. The officers were a part of a narcotics team and were supervised by Lt. Steve Parrish, who is now…

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Rihanna, Ludacris Among Celebs to Pledge Support to Victims of Hurricane Dorian: 'You Are In Our Prayers'

The unspeakable destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian has destroyed far more than just property in the Bahamas. Thankfully, pop princess Rihanna has pledged to help restore what was lost.

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PayPal Suspends KKK Account Amid Criticism for Not Doing It Sooner

Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records once had a female rapper who released an album titled A.M.I.L. — an acronym for All Money Is Legal.

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Galveston Asks Texas AG to Block Release of Officers’ Body Cam Footage From Day Mentally Ill Black Man Paraded Through Streets

In the latest development in the deeply disturbing incident where Donald Neely was arrested on Aug. 3 for misdemeanor trespassing, the city of Galveston has asked the Texas attorney general’s office if it can stop the release of the officers’ body camera recordings. Also, the so-called “mounted patrol policy” that the city said the two officers used on Neely never existed, according to KHOU.

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Why It’s OK for Black People, but Not White People, to Use the N-Word, Explained (Again)

What’s up? It’s been a while.

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Virginia couples challenge state law requiring marriage applicants to disclose race

Three Virginia couples have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that requires marriage applicants to disclose their race.

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America Loves Black Culture But Not Black People

Since America's inception America has always shown admiration for Black culture, but no so much Black people. America has shown us over and over again they could less about Black people as a collective. “Cultural appropriation

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Black children are being killed in St. Louis. Their deaths are going unsolved.

At least a dozen black children have been shot and killed in the city since April. Their deaths are part of a larger problem.

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5 Years Later, Jena 6 Move On

Residents of Jena, La., say that life is almost back to normal five years after the town became the epicenter of controversy when a racial episode etched its name in history books, according to the Associated Press.

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A noose was found hanging in a University of Illinois elevator. A student has been arrested.

A college student put up a noose in a residence hall elevator. Hate-crime charges followed.

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The Phrase "Go Back Where You Came From" Has a Long, Violent History

In 1935, the U.S. told Filipino immigrants to "go back where they came from" with the Filipino Repatriation Act.

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How To Deal With White Suprmacists Propaganda on Social Media - Brother Saye

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Setting the Historical Record Straight for the Critics of The New York Times Project on Slavery in America | Black Voice News

Kelley Fanto Deetz | University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619 at