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Black Corrections Officer Sues Walmart after being Racially Profiled

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Black Tennessee Legislators Feel Ignored and Unheard on Issues of Racism

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Nina Turner Wants More Smoke With Shontel Brown

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Black Woman Records White Colleagues Saying ‘Black People Have a Smell’

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$850 Per Month for Black Women in Atlanta

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Page County Karen Violently Threatens School Over Mask Mandate

Alexandra Jane

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Japanese Americans Join The Struggle for Black Reparations

Alexandra Jane

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Karen Attacks a Black Man After He Was Allegedly Served First at a Hilton Hotel in Rio De Janeiro

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Urban Meyer Admits Ohio State Football Program Used Pictures of Trayvon Martin to Enforce 'No Hoodies' Policy

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My Two Job Offers: Goldman Sachs vs. Grindr

Wade Osei Pryor

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Stop Policing Black Women’s Tone

Sunn M'Cheaux

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Chance Lynch, One of Andrew Brown Jr.'s Lawyers, Says There's Only One Real Weapon to Fight Police Killing: End Qualified Immunity

Chance Lynch as told to Murjani Rawls

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Very Smart Brothas

Thank You for the World, Very Smart Brothas

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The National Interest

Nina Turner Wants More Smoke With Shontel Brown

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Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman says Jan 6 ‘Could’ve Easily Been a Bloodbath’

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Are Democrats Finally Sick of Kyrsten the Karen Sinema?

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Why Was Stacey Abrams Really Absent from Biden's Voting Rights Speech?

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Family of Pennsylvania Black Man Call His Death a Modern-Day ‘Lynching’

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Biden Has Chance To Put First Black Woman On Supreme Court With Justice Stephen Breyer's Retirement

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Kyle Rittenhouse's Pal Gets Sweetheart Plea Deal

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After Spending 37 Years in Prison, A Philadelphia Man is Free

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Black Corrections Officer Sues Walmart after being Racially Profiled

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Black Woman Records White Colleagues Saying ‘Black People Have a Smell’

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Lawmaker Says A Book didn't Make him Gay during Debate about LGBTQ Topics in School

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Family of Pennsylvania Black Man Call His Death a Modern-Day ‘Lynching’

Politics

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Black Tennessee Legislators Feel Ignored and Unheard on Issues of Racism

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Nina Turner Wants More Smoke With Shontel Brown

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Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman says Jan 6 ‘Could’ve Easily Been a Bloodbath’

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Are Democrats Finally Sick of Kyrsten the Karen Sinema?