Sima Shakeri HuffPost Canada After 10-year-old Kheris Rogers was bullied by classmates for her darker skin and transferred to a new school to escape the taunting, her older sister Taylor Pollard stepped in to help boost the girl’s confidence. “She started to notice she was different,” Pollard said in an
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By Roxanne Jones, CNN Updated 2:24 PM ET, Sun July 30, 2017 Three weeks ago, my house was pelted with watermelon rinds. No other garbage. Just watermelons. As soon as I heard the noise, I ran outside. When I saw the mess, I was enraged. I wanted to confront the
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By Yagana Shah 01/26/2016 12:27 pm ET Charles “LaLa” Evans and his wife, Louise, had often spoken about creating a museum for the hundreds of photographs they’d amassed in their decades of marriage. But only when Louise passed away just one month before their 60th wedding anniversary did Evans know
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By Eric Bradner, CNN Updated 9:19 PM ET, Fri June 30, 2017 Washington (CNN) Sen. Kamala Harris is using her newfound progressive stardom to raise money for her Democratic colleagues — and amplifying buzz about the California freshman as a prospect for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination in the process.
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By Carla Herreria BLACK VOICES 06/07/2017 10:54 pm ET Black service members are “substantially more likely” than white service members to be punished in four out of the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, according to a new study published by military advocacy group Protect Our Defenders. Data obtained by
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By Zahara Hill BLACK VOICES 05/24/2017 As a kid, high school junior Jahmir Smith never had a dream college. But for a number of universities, he’s their dream student. The 17-year-old North Carolina native has already been accepted into all eight Ivy League schools and has received 33 full-ride scholarship
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By Zeba Blay BLACK VOICES 05/24/2017 03:15 pm ET A black farmer has the internet talking after posting a powerful message on social media about race relations in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chris Newman, owner of the Sylvanaqua Farms in Albemarle County, shared his thoughts on a recent “Love Trumps Hate” counter-protest
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By Lilly Workneh, BLACK VOICES 05/23/2017 05:43 pm ET The NAACP, one of the country’s longstanding racial justice and civil rights organizations, pledged to execute a vigorous “transformational, system-wide refresh” to help better position them to confront today’s urgent fight against injustice. The organization announced the new plan on May
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EURPublisher01 May 22, 2017 The Supreme Court struck down two congressional district maps in North Carolina Monday, holding that the state had engaged in an unconstitutional gerrymander, reports CNN. The court found that race was a factor in the way state lawmakers drew congressional maps after the 2010 Census in order to
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By Kate Abbey-Lambertz, 05/21/2017 10:31 am ET U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) received voicemails threatening to lynch him and calling him racial slurs after he called for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, he said Saturday. Congressman Green, who is black, played the recordings for about 100 attendees at a town hall in
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