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Tim Scott Knows Iowa Could Be The End of The Road
The South Carolina Republican is currently fourth place in polls in Iowa, but he says he expects to finish in the top two.
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Black Students Forced to the Back of the School Bus
Their punishment was the result of a heated exchange with a parent volunteer.
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Black Iowa Teen Who Killed Alleged Rapist Escaped Custody, According To Authorities [UPDATED]
Pieper Lewis could face up to 20 years for violating her probation.
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Black Teen Ordered to Pay Her Rapist’s Estate Receives $150K in Donations [Update]
The bill created to protect trafficking victims in cases like this did not get passed in the state.
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Iowa Man Sentenced to Life For Killing Black Man Whose Body Was Found Burning in a Ditch Last Year
Steven Vogel was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Michael Williams
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1st Black Iowa Mayor Reelected, Defeats Pro-Police Opponent
Waterloo’s first Black mayor, Quentin Hart, won his fourth reelection, and the city council is now majority Black for the first time in history.
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An Iowa County Once Named for a Slave-Owning Vice President is Now Named After a Trailblazing Black Woman
Lulu Merle Johnson was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Iowa.
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Iowa Woman Who Hit Black 12-Year-Old and Latina Teen With Her SUV Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Nicole Poole Franklin, the white supremacist from Des Moines, Iowa, who on Dec. 9, 2019, hit a Black 12-year-old boy with her SUV and, on the same day, ran over a 14-year-old girl and admitted she did it because she thought the girl “was a Mexican,” has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after…