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Florida police sergeant fired for having Trayvon Martin shooting targets
Category: National Written by CNN
by Michael Martinez
(CNN) -- A Florida police sergeant was fired for possessing several so-called Trayvon Martin shooting targets, authorities said Saturday.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:08
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Can you really be an 'Accidental Racist'?
Category: National Written by Associated Press
ON THE SPOT-- This combination of file photos shows Brad Paisley, left, in Hollywood, Calif. on Nov. 1, 2011 and LL Cool J in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2013. (Photos by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
by JESSE WASHINGTON
(AP)--Southern White men don't usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution.
Last Updated on Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:13
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright's daughter indicted in US probe
Category: National Written by Associated Press
JERI L. WRIGHT (AP Photo/File)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A widening federal investigation into the alleged misuse of a $1.25 million state grant led Wednesday to the indictment of the daughter the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the contentious former pastor of President Barack Obama.
Last Updated on Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:50
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SC man who apologized for racist past dies
Category: National Written by Associated Press
MADE AMENDS-- In this March 4, 2009, file photo, Elwin Hope Wilson holds a framed photo he kept showing a mob he participated in during one of local civil rights "sit-ins" that took place in the early 1960s, in Rock Hill, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Raleigh, N.C. (AP) --Elwin Wilson, the former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologized for years of violent racism, including the beating of John Lewis, a Black Freedom Rider who went on to become a Georgia congressman, has died. He was 76.
Last Updated on Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:43
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Rand Paul: GOP must reconnect with African Americans
Category: National Written by CNN
SEN. RAND PAUL, R-KY (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
by Ashley Killough
(CNN) -- Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who's considering a 2016 presidential bid, made a pitch for his party Wednesday at the historically Black Howard University, arguing why the GOP and African Americans should fall in the same column.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:36
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