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8 Influential Women of 2014

By Charlotte Alfred, HuffingtonPost.com 1. Afghanistan’s first female police chief showed the world what courage looks like. Col. Jamila Bayaz was appointed to run security in the Kabul’s District 1…

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ABHM Celebrates Dr. Cameron’s 100th Birthday with Racial Reconciliation Gathering

America’s Black Holocaust Museum’s celebration of founder Dr. James Cameron’s 100th birthday was an opportunity for racial repair.

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Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X

Hamden Rice writes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact his life has on Black Americans who lived in terror of white violence.

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A Hug That Earned a Student Suspension

By Rebecca Klein, HuffingtonPost.com A petition for Sam McNair, a Georgia teen suspended from school earlier this month after hugging a teacher, is gaining steam around the Internet. According to…

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White Supremacist Serial Killer Executed

By: Jim Salter, Bigstory.ap.org No one knows exactly how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed as he crossed the country more than three decades ago, fueled by hatred of blacks…

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George Zimmerman: Violent Past and Future

By Associated Press, HuffingtonPost.com George Zimmerman was arrested in Seminole County, Fla., at about 1:30 p.m. Monday and charged with assault, after a dispute at his girlfriend’s home, the Associated…

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Klansman Halloween Costume

By Cavan Sieczkowski, Huffingtonpost.com Jessica Black of Craigsville, Va., let her son, Jackson, dress as a Klansman with a floor-length white robe and full-faced white hood, according to local ABC…

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Do Racial Issues Still Push Some Over the Edge?

By Richard Prince, theRoot.com The suspect slain after a chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol Thursday wasn’t identified by race, unlike the Washington Navy Yard killer who…

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The Speech That Shocked Birmingham the Day After the Church Bombing

The day after four little girls were murdered in church, a young white family man gave a speech about racism at a meeting of his Birmingham men’s club. He was to be forever shunned. This is what he said.

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Service Seeks Reconciliation Over 1916 Lynching

Hundreds gathered in a small town church in Abbeville, South Carolina, known as the the birthplace of the Confederacy. Descendants of Anthony Crawford and descendants of his lynchers joined in a service of apology, forgiveness and reconciliation for that lynching and other racial injustices that took place there nearly a century ago.

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