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by Lynette Holloway onOctober 29, 2012
Chicago's violent year hit a deadly milestone on Monday when the city saw its 435th homicide, matching last year's entire count.
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September 14, 2012
Ebony's R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy says rappers like Chief Keef are merely symptoms of the greater problems for black men in cities like Chicago.
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by Anita Powell onAugust 23, 2012
The police shooting of strikers reveals how money and power divide the country.
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by Mariame Kaba onJuly 16, 2012
Mariame Kaba, on her website Prison Culture, explores the concept of a "violence matrix."
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onFebruary 3, 2011
Journalists are rounded up, violence intensifies, Mubarak blames foreigners and video feeds are cut from Tahrir Square. Could this get any worse?
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November 29, 2010
Try to think of any other time that a white politician was so bracingly direct when speaking to his mostly-white constituency about racism.
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June 22, 2010
Black children are the real victims of violent crime in more ways than one.
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May 27, 2010
Ethnic strife in the north has forced some Ghanaians into Togo.
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May 26, 2010
The president is attempting to boost border protection along the U.S. southern border.
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May 25, 2010
Agostinho Chauque was killed on Sunday night in an exchange of gunfire between the police and a gang trying to steal a car.
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