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Failed federal policy and the Black-White housing gap

The speech that made President Barack Obama famous cast him as a post-racial figure offering a vision of America no longer divided along Black-and-white lines.

These fence line measurements will give surrounding communities – largely low-income communities of color – data on the level of pollution they are exposed to each day.

Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson called on President Barack Obama to use his influence and get more involved in the current situation occurring in Ferguson.

Twenty years after signing the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the United States continues to struggle with racial disparities in every major sector of American society.

Missouri shooting victim’s father calls for peace after riots

Jesse Jackson told The American he hopes that the U.S. Department of Justice sees the Ferguson Police shooting of Michael Brown on Saturday and resulting community violence as “systematic of a national crisis.”

A pregnant woman who protested the killing of Michael Brown says police pulled a gun on her, then maced and threw her to the ground.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and his administration to have the NC NAACP’s legal challenge to the massive voter suppression law dismissed. Instead, he ruled that the case will be set for a full trial in 2015.

South and Midwest slashed unemployment benefits after the Great Recession, claiming it was an effort to save money and boost the economy, they only succeeded in disproportionately hurting Black families already struggling to make ends meet.