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The Black Lives Matter movement is very real
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Meet the 11-year-old girl who scored $11 million deal with Whole Foods
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The African American Health Forum
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9 Facts About Macon Bolling Allen
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DAR honors Catherine Crumbs
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President Obama chooses Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, first African American woman
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Amendment 2: Florida’s smoking gun
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Why did Malcolm X go to Oxford?
Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 95: What did Malcolm X do at Oxford University? “It…
‘Are you fully black?’
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Plot for Peace: The story you didn’t know about the end of apartheid
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The ‘token’ black girl
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Black teen mistaken for burglar, pepper sprayed in his white foster parents’ home
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‘Gone With the Wind’ and its pernicious place in history
Well, fiddledeedee, as Scarlett O’Hara might exclaim: Gone With the Wind, the epic…
Who were the 1st black Federal Court judges?
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