Multiple police officers in Brooklyn say they were told by a commander that white and Asian people should be left alone.
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Higher education remains the greatest engine for social mobility in American society. Perhaps this is most important for African American students.
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Classmates of five-year-old Michael Clark Jr sat in the courtroom holding paper hearts on sticks in support
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The news of the board’s denial comes just as Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that evidence collected in the child murders will be reexamined.
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As the legendary actor returns to Star Wars, he talks about his masculine and feminine sides, the legacy of Lando, and how after 82 years he’s never lost his style.
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My 2019 holiday guide has some great causes. And one is already promised $100,000 from a reader.
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FacebookTwitterMailThomas Morris Chester is a name little-known in most households. But Chester was a remarkable pioneer. The son of abolitionists George and Jane Marie Chester, he fought passionately – in the civil rights movement and in the Civil War – against slavery, and later became the first African American war correspondent to write for a major daily newspaper. This was […]
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FacebookTwitterMailHattie McDaniel is best known as the first African-American to receive an Academy Award. The actress and radio performer has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and her image is on a U.S. postage stamp. Still, most people aren’t aware that McDaniel was born here, in Wichita. Her birthplace and childhood home, at 925 N. Wichita, is a […]
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FacebookTwitterMailMegan Mottley, a mother, baker, and entrepreneur from Memphis, Tennessee, has recently debuted her line of Goodness Gracious Luxe Cookies frozen cookie dough at a grocery store in her hometown. The cookie dough, which is ready-to-bake, has no preservatives, and has the same taste as her delectable homemade, freshly-baked cookies! Mottley has always loved baking since she was a teenager. […]
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There is implicit bias — and then there is behavior like this.
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