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Black voters aren’t feeling the Bern: Sanders’ problem is bigger than #BlackLivesMatter

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The under-reported truth behind most mass shootings

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8 stats that reveal just how badly the police state hurts black women

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5 black women have been found dead in jail in the last month

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America is the world leader in treating working mothers like absolute garbage

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Trooper Brian Encinia arrests Sandra Bland in Waller County, Texas, July 10, 2015. (AP/Andy Alfaro)

Texas trooper had no right to ask Sandra Bland to put out her cigarette

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Bill de Blasio (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

New York City is reforming its bail system — but it doesn’t go nearly far enough

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Stop the unnecessary killing of the mentally ill: A quarter of those killed by police this year were in a mental health crisis

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23 cents an hour: The perfectly legal slavery happening in modern-day America

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A demonstrator confronts police near Camden Yards, Baltimore, April 25, 2015. (Reuters/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

“You’re giving me a f***ing ticket for what?” It’s totally legal (though maybe not smart) to curse the police

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Wal-Mart could not care less: Capitalism, the Confederate flag and the steep cost of racism

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8 big retailers that have banned the sale of the Confederate flag

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Protester, Baltimore, April 25, 2015. (Reuters/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

6 ways white supremacy takes its toll on Black people’s mental health

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8 chilling new revelations about policing in Baltimore

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5 ways it’s a crime to be poor in America

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10 things black people fear that white people simply don’t

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Charles Barkley (Associated Press)

The 10 most outrageous reactions to police killings this year

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David Koch (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

7 disturbing facts about the Koch brothers’ civil rights history

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David Koch (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

8 disturbing ways the Kochs have amassed their fortune

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Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

“We always have to be so stoic”: How one Michael Brown protester defied respectability politics

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Florida voters at a polling place in Boca Raton (Reuters/Joe Skipper)

5 human rights abuses America commits at home

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