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Ebony's R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy says rappers like Chief Keef are merely symptoms of the greater problems for black men in cities like Chicago.
The GOP nominee's proposal would be twice as bad as Paul Ryan's for people of color and for the country, Imara Jones writes at Colorlines.
Zerlina Maxwell, blogging at the New York Daily News, says that the GOP candidate may be missing the required "sensitivity chip."
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Check out the re-release of an album that extended Michael Jackson's über-stardom beyond Thriller.
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The Right to Bear Arms
The NAACP and activists fight for the release of a black Georgia man who shot a man who was on his lawn.
The Importance of Big Brothers
At Rolling Out, Yvette Caslin makes a plea for African-American men to intervene to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
A Candidate's Troubling Past with LGBT Issues
Zerlina Maxwell, blogging at the New York Daily News, says that the GOP candidate may be missing the required "sensitivity chip."
A Realized Threat
Khaled A. Beydoun writes in a piece for Al-Jazeera that using color and culture to determine who is a terrorist puts us all at risk.
Measuring Up to the Beauty Standard
There's more to life than having a ''sugar bum bum.'' Body parts should never go in -- or out -- of style.
Angela Davis: The Documentary
Willow and Jaden Smith joined their parents at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of the new documentary on Angela Davis’s life, “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” which is being produced by Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jay-Z.
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