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The University of Wisconsin student government proposes free tuition for Blacks. They get push-back from school administration.

Leaders at more than 100 historically Black colleges are planning a meeting with President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers to discuss overcoming funding and enrollment challenges facing schools on Feb. 28.

The Trump administration fired Shermichael Singleton, who was one of a few black conservatives and a top aide to Ben Carson, from his post as a senior advisor this week after Trump's advisors found public writings of Singleton criticizing POTUS.

President Donald Trump awkwardly pressed April Ryan about having friends within the Congressional Black Caucus after the Black journalist questioned him about improving inner cities during a contentious press conference Thursday.

Cartoonist Glenn McCoy who caught heat Tuesday for depicting U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as Ruby Bridges -- the African-American girl in Norman Rockwell's southern school desegregation painting "The Problem We All Live With" -- explained his controversial decision Wednesday.

Louisiana state district court judge Mike Erwin denied this week that he used a derogatory racial slur and referred to a Black woman visiting a bar as the N-word.

Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary, withdrew his nomination Wednesday afternoon amid controversy surrounding domestic abuse allegations and inappropriate business practices.

Comedian and nationally syndicated radio host D.L. Hughley joins Cedric The Entertainer, Charlie Murphy, George Lopez and Eddie Griffin on The Comedy Get Down Tour. Hughley talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about Beyonce‘s performance at the Grammys, Donald Trump and Michael Flynn. On Flynn’s resignation: “That’s high treason. Can you imagine if President […]

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What would Republicans have said if President Barack Obama had spent an inordinate amount of time tweeting or on social media?

The Tallahatchie County Courthouse, where Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were tried and acquitted in Emmett Till’s death in 1955 is being converted into a museum.

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Kellyanne Conway retweeted Lib Hyprocrisy, whose profile includes the words #WhiteIdentity, #Nationalist and the icon of Pepe the Frog — an emoji associated with the alt-right movement. Conway, who said “Love you back” to the alt-right racist, also wished a happy Valentine’s day to her “Hapless Haters.”

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Detroit businessman Mike Ilitch offered to pay Parks' housing for as long as necessary after a 1994 burglary.