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Legal weed’s race problem: White men get rich, black men stay in prison
Ever since Colorado and Washington made the unprecedented move to legalize recreational pot last year, excitement and stories of unfettered success have billowed into the air. Colorado’s marijuana tax revenue far exceeded expectations, bringing a whopping $185 million to the state and tourists are lining up to taste the budding culture (pun intended). Several other states are now looking to follow suit and legalize.
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Black Man Brings White Girlfriend Into Harlem Barbershop. Watch What Happens Next.
What would you do?
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The New Racism
This is how the civil rights movement ends.
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America Is Not For Black People
The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., something like that happened: An unarmed 18-year-old black man was executed by police in broad daylight.
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Exactly how often do police shoot unarmed black men?
Mike Brown's death was "just the tip of the iceberg." Here's what the data reveals.
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KKK raising money for Ferguson police officer
A Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is planning a fundraiser this weekend for the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen. "All money will go to the cop who did his job against the Negro criminal," according to New Empire Knights of the KKK.
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Zimbabwe: Go Back to England, Mugabe Tells Whites
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe said Friday that whites who are still in the country should go back to England as he vowed that those removed from land redistributed to black Zimbabweans would never be allowed to return. Mugabe was speaking during the installation of a chief at Murombedzi Growth Point in his rural Zvimba home area.
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High school suspends student editor for refusing to print the word 'redskins'
A year-long standoff between a Pennsylvania high school administration and its student body newspaper has resulted in suspensions, a $1200 fine, and an IndieGoGo campaign in protest—all because the student editorial staff of the paper is refusing to print the word "Redskins."
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The Society of Fugitives
How does aggressive police surveillance transform an urban neighborhood? A sociologist reports from the inside.
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The Forgotten Story Of Classic Hollywood's First Asian-American Star
Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong was a trailblazer despite the openly racist industry in which she worked. Remembering her story and contemplating how much things have changed.
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Horror Of Horrors: Is H.P. Lovecraft's Legacy Tainted?
Lovecraft, the author who famously invented Cthulhu, was also known for his highly racist opinions. This has created some controversy around the World Fantasy Award statue that bears his likeness.
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Racism Insurance: Coverage for White Privilege
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Charts: The Major Demographic Shift That's Upending How We Think About Race
And you'll never guess where the rate of people claiming more than one race is growing fastest
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Chris Rock Talks to Frank Rich About Ferguson, Cosby, and What ‘Racial Progress’ Really Means
As Rock prepares for the release of Top Five, a bittersweet film comedy in which he does triple duty as director, screenwriter, and star.
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The father of DNA is selling his Nobel prize because everyone thinks he’s racist
James Watson, known to many as one of the "fathers of DNA" for his scientific discoveries, is putting his Nobel prize on the auction block this Thursday with a reserve price of $2.5 million. Why part with the prestigious award now, over 50 years after winning it? After all, no living recipient of the award has ever sold it before.
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Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There’s only one fix.
As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason. I hated the way cops treated me. But I knew police weren’t all bad. One of my father’s closest friends was a cop. He became a mentor to me and encouraged me to join the force. He told me that I could use the police’s power and resources to help my community.
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Retired NYPD detective believes he was racially profiled during attack by fellow officers
An NYPD detective believes he was racially profiled when he was attacked by three officers outside a Washington Heights night club two years ago. In an exclusive interview with PIX11 News, Harold Thomas said he was attacked by fellow officers after a night of partying at La Marina night club in Manhattan with his son and friends. The detective said the night took a terrible turn when he walked back to his SUV...
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Former KKK Leader Threatens To Expose Other Politicians With White Supremacist Ties
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke issued a warning to Republicans who have criticized House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) for speaking to a white nationalist group in 2002, saying they "better be looking over their shoulders."
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A cop in Ukraine said he was detaining me because I was black. I appreciated it.
I was already homeless – unknowingly a victim of housing discrimination – when my plane touched down in Kiev, Ukraine in the summer of 2009. I was traveling on a Fulbright grant to research the lives of biracial Ukrainians, and was eager to explore how the Slavic country could produce native people who looked like me, a young black man from Detroit. A local real estate agent had promised several months earlier to secure an apartment for me before my arrival. I took a taxi from the airport...
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Millennials Are Less Racially Tolerant Than You Think
However frustrating the current state of race relations in the U.S., there is, according to various pundits and prognosticators, hope for the future: Millennials, they say, are the most tolerant, race-blind generation in human history. And when they grow up and constitute the bulk of the adult U.S. population, many of the problems that have plagued U.S. race-relations for centuries will simply melt away, relics of a less-enlightened past.
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