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Black males accounted for about 8,500 of the nearly 72,000 students enrolled in tMississippi's public universities last fall, which is less than 12 percent.


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The 52-year-old U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, historically a leading force for overturning racist policies and enacting civil rights laws against Jim Crow segregation, has become obsolete and must be replaced, say civil rights leaders who are moving to make it happen.


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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in oil-rich Angola to underscore America's presence in one of sub-Saharan Africa's largest energy producers where America is competing with China for resources.


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NEW YORK (NNPA) - One of the great undiscussed dilemmas plaguing this city is the number of runaways and abducted children. The numbers are staggering.


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Even after they announced her name and proclaimed Miss Pennsylvania as the new Miss Black USA, Shayna Rudd didn't realize that she had just won.


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A White electrician has been acquitted by an all-White jury of a federal charge of intimidating a Black co-worker by hanging a noose in a work space shared by both men.


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a spokeswoman for the office in Mobile, says she did not offer a specific reason for departing several years before she turned 57, the agency's mandatory retirement age.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to making North Carolina the second state in the country that allows statistical evidence to establish racial bias as behind prosecutors seeking or jurors rendering the death penalty.


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Police Chief William Bratton is stepping down after a seven-year tenure in which he instituted major reforms of the once-scandalized Police Department.


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 A 21-year-old man accused of obstructing justice in last November's killing of a would-be Ku Klux Klan recruit from Oklahoma will get another two months of tutoring to try to make him competent for trial.


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