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Turley attempted to use the Civil Rights Movement and King as an example of unfairness but instead showed his ignorance of repression experienced during the period. 

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Let’s keep the love train rolling with Instagram’s “Love at First Slide” campaign, which debuted yesterday on Valentine’s Day. In honor of Lover’s Day and Black History Month, the social media platform partnered with a few couples and friends to share their Black Love stories. Read more inside and view their photos.

In the new PBS documentary  “American Reckoning,” which airs Feb 15, directors Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen dive into the unsolved murder of Wharlest Jackson, a Natchez, Mississippi native who was killed by a car bomb.

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Twenty-nine laptops and pieces of sound equipment were stolen from Simmons College of Kentucky and officials have identified the culprits from surveillance footage, but the HBCU isn't going the legal route and instead offered to enroll them in exchange for the returned property.

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Another win for Black History Month! Snapchat launched its #CelebrateBlackVoices challenge on Spotlight in honor of Black History Month. The social media platform will give Snapchatters an opportunity to win a share of $10,000 by creating a video Snap showcasing how they celebrate Black voices. Learn more inside.

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“I’m ready to whip Texas back into shape,” Texas Senate candidate Bianca Gracia is heard saying while standing in front of men on horseback and repeatedly cracking a whip.

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Republican congressional candidate Vernon Jones wants his election into Congress to be an immediate pathway for Donald Trump to be president again.

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A school in Indianapolis, Indiana is under fire after a teacher assigned a Black History Month project that directed students to draw Black people picking cotton.

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Residents will have the opportunity to vote for different state and local representatives across various districts of government. Here is what you need to know about those elections. 

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The organization is leading a week of action to boost support for harm reduction as a viable public health strategy.  

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An NFT creator is profiting off of the murder of George Floyd through pixelated images that show Floyd in various uniformed and costumes, including a police uniform

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In the 1800s a Black man from Alabama named John Benson escaped the thumb of slavery, traveled across state lines to save his sister, then became a wealthy man who founded a Black community on the same land where he was once a slave.