Protests continued Tuesday in Portland, Kenosha and Los Angeles after several high profile police shootings in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
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Dictionary.com capitalizes ‘Black,’ adds 650 words on race, gender, mental health and more
Dictionary.com added hundreds of words and updated thousands of entries on race, gender and mental health. The updated also included new slang words.
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Americans’ confidence in police falls to historic low, Gallup poll shows
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Air Force general Charles ‘CQ’ Brown makes history as first African American service chief
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The Voting Rights Act was signed 55 years ago. Black women led the movement behind it
Long before Dr. King came to Selma, Black women like Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster registered, and educated Black voters.
USDA identifies some of the mysterious, unsolicited seeds after all 50 states issue warnings
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Court convicts 93-year-old concentration camp guard in one of the last Nazi trials in history
Bruno Dey was given a two-year suspended prison sentence for more than 5,230 counts of accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp.
Greta Thunberg won a $1.15M humanitarian prize. She’s donating it all to environmental groups.
Some of Greta Thunberg’s $1.15 million in prize money from the