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Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid of the San Francisco 49ers kneel during the national anthem. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla/Thearon W. Henderson)

NFL tells players patriotism is more important than protesting

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Silent Protest parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City, July 28, 1917, in response to the East St. Louis race riot. In front row are James Weldon Johnson (far right), W. E. B. DuBois (2nd from right), Rev. Hutchens Chew Bishop, rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Harlem) and realtor John E. Nail. (New York Public Library (public domain))

100 years ago African-Americans marched down 5th Avenue to declare that black lives matter

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Donald Trump; Hillary Clinton at the presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (Getty/Drew Angerer)

“A fundamental misunderstanding of accounting”: Scholars give Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton the fact-check treatment

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Dallas and Baton Rouge tragedies: A reminder of the troubled history of black veterans in America

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