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Death Reignites Hard Questions For Minnesota Black
For many leaders in Minnesota's black community, the dropping of a federal investigation and no charges being filed after a black man was killed by Minneapolis police in November was reason to question whether months of work to repair racial disparities and police-community relations had paid off.
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#OscarsSoWhite Debate Scores Big at the NAACP Image Awards
Director Spike Lee, who has said that he will not attend the Oscars, scheduled to be held on February 28, as part of a boycott to protest the lack of diversity in the major acting categories, was seen applauding singer John Legend for his emotional speech about racism. ""We don't have to ask for acceptance from anyone," said Taraji P Henson
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Florida Woman Dies After Being Kicked Out Of Hospital In Handcuffs
Barbara Dawson was just steps away from the entrance to Calhoun Liberty Hospital when she collapsed.
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US Black Rights Group Embarks on Alabama-to-Washington March
Activists from the NAACP, America's oldest and largest civil rights group, embarked this weekend on a month-and-a-half long march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, DC, to focus national attention on issues of racial injustice.
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'Black' Activist Rachel Donezal Resigns Helm of US Civil Rights Group
A US civil rights activist resigned today from the leadership of a leading African American advocacy group, amid a "firestorm" over allegations that she was a white person who masqueraded for years as black.
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Sister must donate kidney to get out of US jail
A Mississippi woman must donate her kidney to her sister as a condition for their early release from jail after serving 16 years for an armed robbery that netted 11 dollars.Jamie and Gladys Scott became symbols of the heavy-handed sentences handed to African Americans and the influential civil rights group NAACP engaged in a long-standing campaign ...
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Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama
Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...
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Death Reignites Hard Questions For Minnesota Black
For many leaders in Minnesota's black community, the dropping of a federal investigation and no charges being filed after a black man was killed by Minneapolis police in November was reason to question whether months of work to repair racial disparities and police-community relations had paid off.
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#OscarsSoWhite Debate Scores Big at the NAACP Image Awards
Director Spike Lee, who has said that he will not attend the Oscars, scheduled to be held on February 28, as part of a boycott to protest the lack of diversity in the major acting categories, was seen applauding singer John Legend for his emotional speech about racism. ""We don't have to ask for acceptance from anyone," said Taraji P Henson
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Florida Woman Dies After Being Kicked Out Of Hospital In Handcuffs
Barbara Dawson was just steps away from the entrance to Calhoun Liberty Hospital when she collapsed.
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US Black Rights Group Embarks on Alabama-to-Washington March
Activists from the NAACP, America's oldest and largest civil rights group, embarked this weekend on a month-and-a-half long march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, DC, to focus national attention on issues of racial injustice.
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'Black' Activist Rachel Donezal Resigns Helm of US Civil Rights Group
A US civil rights activist resigned today from the leadership of a leading African American advocacy group, amid a "firestorm" over allegations that she was a white person who masqueraded for years as black.
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Sister must donate kidney to get out of US jail
A Mississippi woman must donate her kidney to her sister as a condition for their early release from jail after serving 16 years for an armed robbery that netted 11 dollars.Jamie and Gladys Scott became symbols of the heavy-handed sentences handed to African Americans and the influential civil rights group NAACP engaged in a long-standing campaign ...
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Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama
Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...
