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A 19-year-old college student has received complaints after hanging a Confederate flag from his dorm room window. The student, who is black, says that he views the flag as a symbol of Southern pride, not racism.
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A 79-year-old from New York has become the first African American woman on record to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole.
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African-American seniors are twice as likely to be mistreated than elders of other races. They are five times more susceptible to being swindled, the first population-based survey on the psychological abuse of senior citizens in the US has found.
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Many American blacks were outraged when they opened their 2010 Census booklets and found the term “Negro” as one of their race options.
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"What is it that they want now?" is the question white people ask when African Americans complain. An episode now in Natchitoches, Louisiana gives lessons about what happens when problems remain unresolved for years.
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In Natchitoches, Louisiana history was made today. The Native American and African American communities were separate communities in the South by design of white oppression. Now, for the first time, they are sharing their histories.
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The ordination of Alysa Stanton, 45, America's first-ever female African-American rabbi, occurred on June 6. She considers herself honored but not exceptional, and focuses on being a rabbi first.
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There was protest when Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House, and there is protest, 108 years later, when Notre Dame's president invited President Barack Obama, to deliver Notre Dame's commencement address.
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Can hairstyles tell others about our political affiliations and cultural heritage? Ukraine's beautiful prime minister has exchanged her 'ethnic braids' for the classic hairstyle of Roman/Greco goddess, Aurora. What message is she sending to her people?
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A conference on May 1 at Temple University is addressing President Barack Obama’s first 100 days. It is being held by an African American group. But is there a black perspective on the Presidency?
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African American mothers share words they tell their kids.
The Smithsonian Institute began construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Feb. 22, 2012
Two men accused of a shooting rampage that terrorised an African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have their bail set at $9m each.
 Camilla Williams, the first African-American woman to sign a contract with a major U.S. opera company, has died in Bloomington, Indiana. She was 92.
 The Royal Bank of Canada is acquiring the Latin American, Caribbean and African private banking business of Coutts, the wealth division of Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
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