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Tufts Prof: Obama Needs To Invite Jesse Jackson to White House

Tufts University History professor Peniel Joseph declared that President Obama “has a lot of soul-searching to do” because he won’t allow Jesse Jackson into the White House on Thurday’s “HuffPost Live.” Joseph began by talking about Erin Burnett’s interview with Baltimore

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Dem Rep Thanks God for Charges in Gray Death

Friday, shortly after State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced six Baltimore police officers now face criminal charges for the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said, “I have come here today to thank God Marilyn

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Forget Prop 209–Use Race to Help Latinos, Says Study

According to The Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit organization, the paucity of Latinos in California with a college degree represents a problem that should be solved by allowing the state’s public universities to use race or ethnicity as a factor in weighing an applicant’s qualifications.

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Live Updates: Baltimore’s Curfew, Day Three

Breitbart News covers breaking updates from Thursday night’s protests over the death of Freddie Gray. After two nights of relative peace, demonstrators are still confronting police as the sun sets, but the city is hopeful for continued calm.

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Allen West: Dem Policies Destroying Inner Cities for 40 Years

Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,”  former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said poverty, lack of quality education, and the breakdown of the family are consequences of the Democrats’ inner-city policies that have created conditions which sparked riots all over

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Sharpton Scolds Media: ‘Quit Playing With Matches’

Reverend Al Sharpton told the media to “quit playing with matches in Baltimore” in a speech on Thursday. Sharpton referenced his confrontation with the Fox News Channel’s Leland Vittert, saying, “when we were just walking in here now, in the

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Jerusalem Mayor Meets ‘Baltimore’ Protestors in Street

In an echo of protests this week in Baltimore, demonstrators in Jerusalem, Israel have taken to the streets to oppose police brutality against Ethiopian Israelis. The immediate trigger for the protest, which drew hundreds of people to the streets near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence, was a surveillance video showing two policemen beating a black Israeli soldier in uniform. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat rushed to the scene to listen to the demonstrators’ concerns.

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7 Worst Media Reactions to the Baltimore Riots

The media make money off race riots. They gin them up; they promote them; then they react to them. Media reactions to the riots in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray have ranged from the egregious to the ridiculous.

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Hillary 1994: Lock Up Offenders Forever, Build More Prisons

On the heels of the social unrest caused by a string of law enforcement involved deaths of African-American males across the country, today Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for an end to mass incarceration. However, a little more than 20 years ago