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WASHINGTON — Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan…

LOS ANGELES — We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles Police officers who beat him after…

The story of pioneering Black scholar Richard T. Greener and his achievements have not been discussed as often as many of his historic contemporaries. As…

In New York, Westchester County’s police force has found themselves in yet another shooting that some are saying was motivated by racist and overzealous officers.…

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Detroit’s 3rd Circuit Judge Wade McCree, who specializes in trying sexual misconduct cases, was recently busted for texting a nearly nude photo (from the waist…

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company’s efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico…

The practice of capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is one of the most-heavily contended social issues in America and abroad.  There have…

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DURHAM, N.C. — LeRoy Walker (pictured), the first African-American to lead the U.S. Olympic Committee and the first black man to coach an American Olympic…

A new study reveals that African Americans are given sub-par treatment by more than a third of waiters at dining establishments because they are bad tippers,…

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On February 27 of this year, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was brutally murdered by self-styled neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman as he walked to his father’s home.  When…

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A Florida man waiting to order food at a local McDonald’s jumped over the counter and beat the manager with a baseball bat because he…

In an unanticipated turn of events, Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester unsealed files on Monday in the highly controversial George Zimmerman trial, reports The Grio.…