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  • Chicago Police Search for Mom After 'Precious Baby Girl’ Found Abandoned

    Chicago police are searching for the mother of a baby found abandoned in the lobby of a South Side apartment building, NBC Chicago reports. Thomas Freeman told police he found the child wrapped in a purple blanket about 11:30 p.m. Friday at the building in the 8200 block of South Justine Street. The child was…

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  • Michelle Obama Emphasizes Freedom of Speech in Visit to China

    Freedom of speech and unrestricted access to information make countries stronger, Michelle Obama told students in China, the Associated Press reports. China has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on the Internet. The first lady spoke Saturday at Peking University in Beijing during a weeklong visit designed to advance educational exchanges between the United States…

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  • Black Students Expelled or Suspended at Higher Rates Than Whites

    Public school students of color face punishment more often and have less access to skilled and experienced educators than their white counterparts, the Huffington Post reports, citing surveys released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education. The surveys, which include data from every U.S. school district, shows that black students are suspended or expelled at…

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  • Virginia KKK Leader: ‘We Don’t Hate People Because of Their Race’

    The head of a Virginia Ku Klux Klan group says the organization has been unfairly depicted as racist, arguing that it is simply a nonviolent, Christian organization. Frank Ancona, imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, made the comment during an interview Thursday with NBC 12 in response to complaints…

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  • Teen Whose Dad Died Shielding Her: ‘I Am Going to Make Him Proud’

    “I am going to make him proud,” Masharah Tingling told the Chicago Tribune after her father, Michael Tingling, died Wednesday protecting her from an ex-convict during a sidewalk confrontation on the city’s North Side. Her father was looking forward to the eighth-grader’s graduation this spring from Chicago Math and Science Academy, said a friend, Carmen Preister.  Preister…

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  • University of Alabama Student Leaders Block Greek Integration Bill

    Six months after the campus newspaper reported on apparent racial discrimination in the University of Alabama pledging system, the student government on Thursday failed to pass a bill to support full integration of the school’s system of Greek fraternities and sororities, according to AL.com. The Senate of the Student Government Association (SGA) sent the measure…

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  • GOP Congressional Candidate Apologizes for Slavery Comments

    Arizona Republican congressional candidate Jim Brown, who was roundly criticized last week for comparing modern-day “entitlements” to slavery, has issued an apology, the Huffington Post reports. Brown, who is running in for a seat in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, said in the apology on Thursday that he cares “about every human being on this planet.”…

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  • Lupita Nyong’o: Her Father Says Family Suffered Torture and Brutality in Kenya

    The family of Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o reportedly experienced similar abuse as that depicted in 12 Years a Slave, her father told the Independent. The actress has garnered widespread praise for her performance in the film as Patsey, who was subjugated and dehumanized by her owners, earning her an Oscar for best supporting actress.…

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  • Watch: Chicago Youth Poetry Team Knocks Mayor ‘Wreck-It-Rahm’ 

    “Hide your schools. Hide your homes. Hide your children ’cause he’s wrecking it all,” TEAM Englewood, a Chicago youth-poetry group, warns in a poem directed at Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his policies. The youth-poetry group recited the poem earlier this month during the semifinals of the youth-poetry competition Louder Than a Bomb, the largest youth poetry…

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  • Chris Brown to Spend More Than 30 Days in Jail

    Chris Brown is likely singing the jailhouse blues instead of his usual hip-hop and R&B tunes. The embattled 24-year-old singer will spend more than one month behind bars, TMZ reported Saturday. He was arrested Friday on a warrant after he was kicked out of a rehabilitation center in Malibu, Calif., where he was being treated…

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