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Parents and community members attend a Loudoun County School Board meeting, just 40 minutes from Fairfax (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

Loudoun County mom says 6-year-old asked her if she was 'born evil' because she's White Monday, Nov. 8, 2021

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How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power? Just Look at Miami. Monday, Nov. 8, 2021

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The 4,000 square foot space at 3337 Cypress Creek Parkway in north Houston was previously home to District 1960, a nightclub. Now, the owner has transformed the space into a supermarket offering products from a number of Black-owned vendors. Screenshot / Google Maps

A new Black-owned supermarket is coming soon to a former Houston nightclub space Monday, Nov. 8, 2021

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Historians estimate that one in four cowboys in the US were black. Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

African American history you probably weren't taught in school Monday, Nov. 8, 2021

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Jerry Craft's graphic novel "New Kid."Quill Tree Books

Texas school district reinstates book by Black author amid critical race theory claims Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

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Courtesy Marlon Gayle Bobby Gayle, back left, is seen with his siblings in this undated photo.

Black construction worker shot 7 times in potential hate crime, police say Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

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Latosha Clemons, the Boynton Beach deputy fire-rescue chief who was depicted as white in a mural, tells her story in front of the office of her attorney, Nicole Hunt Jackson, Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Lawsuit filed in Florida over a mural showing city's first Black female firefighter depicted with a White face Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

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Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

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UNTITLED, FROM THE SERIES “CAPITALISM IS KILLING US/BLACK UTOPIAS” BY AISHA SHILLINGFORD/WWW.INTELLIGENTMISCHIEF.COM

The Art Worlds We Want: Solidarity Art Economies Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

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Colin Powell in October 1995, a month before he decided against running for president. Photograph: David Sillitoe/The Guardian

Colin Powell: the man who might have been America’s first Black president Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

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