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For IPAD/IPHONE users: Shopping while black, let’s talk about that. Every time it hits the news, every time it happens; even when it’s someone famous,…

Reverend Al Sharpton talks with the Tom Joyner Morning Show crew about racial profiling at high profile stores.

This is a meeting that must happen. Rev. Al Sharpton plans to meet with Mark Lee, CEO of Barney’s New York, on Tuesday to discuss…

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Rob Brown, 29 (pictured above), a Brooklyn-based actor who starred in Finding Forrester with Sean Connery and in HBO’s Treme, says he was handcuffed in Macy’s…

Have you ever had that sinking feeling that you were about to be pulled over by the police car that just pulled up behind you?  You must be a person of color.   For the last 10 years, NYPD has been walking up on people of color and checking their pockets.  So much for “innocent […]

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It has been almost two weeks since a jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter.  It has been…

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told members of the NAACP Tuesday that Trayvon Martin’s death was “unnecessary” and “tragic” and questioned the wisdom of stand-your-ground…

When rapper Lil Wayne used offensive lyrics that included the name of Emmett Till, it sparked a conversation about whether or not much of this…

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The city of Sanford, Florida will forever go down in history as the place where Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. But the city is…

Mark O’Mara, the no-nonsense attorney for George Zimmerman, took his defense of Zimmerman out of the courtroom this week and deliberately infused race in a…

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Five white women and one Latina. They comprise the jury that will determine whether Trayvon Martin gets justice. I predict that he won’t. I guarantee…