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  From The Baltimore Sun, Huffington Post, The Hill   , ,   Former NAACP President Ben Jealous Backs Bernie Sanders By John Fritze The Baltimore Sun February 5, 2016…

Deray McKesson has been one of the most vocal activists since the Ferguson shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014. Photograph: Michael B Thomas/AFP/Getty Images Prominent Black Lives Matter…

By: Khyla D. Craine Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wait for him to sign items after a town hall Jan. 29, 2016, in Nashua, N.H. Monday is the day….

By Henry (Chip) Carey Haitians rioted violently in the capital Port-au-Prince and across the country on Monday to protest fraud in this past autumn’s elections and in this Sunday’s presidential vote. While the opposition…

By: Danielle C. Belton Demonstrators protest in front of the police station in Ferguson, Mo., March 12, 2015, in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.  No one…

By Cherri Senders /  AlterNet   Last speech of MLK By the time of his death at the hands of an assassin’s bullet in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had shifted much…

By: Charles D. Ellison President Barack Obama waves before giving last year’s State of the Union in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2015, in Washington, D.C.  …

  In response, the NAACP said they are planning to file a motion with the judge. An Ohio prosecutor has rebuffed a request by the Cleveland branch of the NAACP…

  The African Sun Times, Africa’s number one and largest newspaper in America, has announced its Persons-of-the-Year, as well as the Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year.   The…

By: Kirsten West Savali Tamir Rice Today, a grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio does what this system does. They put an exclamation point on the statement that black lives don’t matter….