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    Assata Shakur is just the latest in a long list of black revolutionaries who have been among the FBI's most sought-after criminal suspects, Jamilah King writes at Colorlines.

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    Racism in 2013: Just Get Over It?

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    My Racist Experience at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

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    "It's the little indignities that slowly devastate your soul," the Huffington Post's Seema Jilani writes in a piece about what she says was "white privilege on display."

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    There are reports that Malcolm Shabazz was thrown off a building or shot as he was being robbed in Tijuana.

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