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Justice Department to Monitor Tuesday’s Election in 28 states

November 7, 2016 Staff 0

By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Personnel from the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division will be deployed to polling sites in 28 states to monitor Tuesday’s election, five more than it monitored in the […]

Lifestyle

Woman Denied $43 Million Payout After Casino Says the Machine Malfunctioned

November 7, 2016 Staff 0

(NEW YORK) You can’t help but feel sorry for Katrina Bookman. She had the experience of being told she actually did NOT win $43 MILLION because the slot machine that said you won was malfunctioning. Or so […]

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Uber Is Quietly Terrible For Women And Black People: Study

November 7, 2016 Staff 0

By Damon Lavrinc, jalopnik.com People of color have been dealing with racist cabbies for decades, and according to a new study, that discrimination is alive and well in the world of ride-hailing apps. Not only are […]

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Black Face Ain’t the Same As Being Part of the Black Race

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

BLACK FACE AIN’T THE SAME AS BEING PART OF THE BLACK RACE Prairie View A&M (PVAMU) freshman student, Brooke Merino Here in recent years, several White people have chosen to make increasingly popular again, an […]

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Gunmen Shoot Up Sign Commemorating Where Emmett Till’s Body Was Found

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley, his mother. Gunmen recently fired bullets into a sign commemorating where Emmett Till’s beaten body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955 after Roy Bryant and his half […]

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Renowned White Racist Will Participate in U.S. Senate Debate at a Historically Black College

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

White supremacist David Duke has qualified for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate debate scheduled for November 2 at Dillard University, a Historically Black University based in New Orleans. Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, […]

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90 Minutes of Fire: Trump, Clinton Trade Charges, Insults

October 10, 2016 Staff 0

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate […]

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Meet Robert F. Smith — The Little-Known Black Billionaire Who Made a $20 Million Donation to the African American Smithsonian Museum

September 26, 2016 Staff 0

Back in 2013, when the founders of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture were seeking donors, they were encouraged to reach out to a man named Robert F. Smith. And that […]

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President Obama Opens Smithsonian’s African American Museum

September 26, 2016 Staff 0

President Barack Obama walks into the Grand Foyer with Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, and first lady Michelle Obama, to speak at a reception for the museum […]

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Robinson Takes the Helm as Interim President of FAMU

September 20, 2016 Staff 0

Tallahassee Fl—Renowned scientist and research scholar Larry Robinson, Ph.D. is now the Interim President of Florida A&M University. On September 15, the FAMU Board […]

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