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Ferguson Is Having an Election, but Will Ferguson Vote?
A city plagued by racial discrimination and low voter turnout hopes to turn over a new leaf on both after only 6 percent of eligible African-American voters cast a ballot in 2012.
Read MoreRonald ‘Ra Diggs’ Herron Gets Life Sentence After Rap Lyrics Used As Evidence
An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.
Read More85 years after infamous lynching, another noose stirs tension in Indiana town
Assistant fire chief Rick Backs has since been suspended by the Marion Fire Department; he released a statement apologizing for forming a noose during a knot-tying exercise at the station house Feb. 13.
Read MoreMichelle Obama Declares ‘Black Girls Rock!’
Obama got among the night’s loudest ovations as she came on stage and declared “Black girls rock!” – the slogan and name of the organization founded by Beverly Bond, which is designed to uplift young black girls, a group that often has difficulty finding positive and reaffirming images of themselves in the world.
Read MoreOle Miss Student Indicted For Hanging Noose Around Statue Honoring School’s First Black Enrollee
A federal grand jury indicted Graeme Phillip Harris, a student at the University of Mississippi on two separate civil rights charges on Friday for hanging a noose and a flag depicting a Confederate symbol around a campus statue honoring James Meredith, the first African-American student to attend the university.
Read MoreGeorge Zimmerman Says God and Justice Are on His Side
In a new video released by his law firm, Trayvon Martin’s killer says he feels no survivor’s remorse because it was God’s plan for the teenager to die.
Read MoreConfronting Past, Mississippi Town Erects Emmett Till Museum 60 Years After His Killing
Six decades after the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, the small Mississippi Delta town where two white men were acquitted of his murder is dedicating a museum to the event credited with helping spark the U.S. civil rights movement.
Read MoreBlack Man Found Hanging From Tree in Miss. Reportedly Robbed and Murdered Woman in 1980: Report
The body of a black man believed to be Otis Byrd was found hanging from a tree. Byrd served 25 years in prison for reportedly robbing and killing a woman.
Read MoreJesse Jackson: Access to Technology Is the Goal of Our Next Big Movement
“Voting has its place, but the fastest-growing industry, I believe, is high tech, so we need to get in there,” Jackson said. “We must make access to technology and this new machinery a crusade for everybody, not just a campaign for the few.”
Read MoreWho Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
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