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Mizzou Protesters Stay Silent on Attacks Against Black Conservatives

On the heels of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s resignation, the Mizzou campus has ignited in controversy over alleged racial tensions on campus. But in all of this uproar, the media has forgotten one key detail—just a month ago when a black student was the target of a documented use of a racial slur, the protesters were silent.

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MSNBC’s Reid: Sanders Has Been Clumsy on Issues of Race

Friday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” while discussing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) not getting support from African-American Democrats, MSNBC corespondent Joy Reid described Sanders as “clumsy” on issues of race.” Reid said, “At the risk of getting a hostile

Artist: Ben Davis

It’s All About Race: ‘Huck and Jim’ Sculpture Rejected

Jerry Saltz, an art critic who writes for New York Magazine, says the new Whitney Museum of American Art “will be marked by an invisible original sin that can’t be lifted. That sin? An aesthetic one that perfectly mirrors America’s hysteria and mania around race …”

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Ben Carson Campaign Looks to Woo Black Voters with Rap Radio Ad

Within 24 hours of Republican presidential frontrunner Dr. Ben Carson’s business manager Armstrong Williams’ declaration to Breitbart News Daily that the retired neurosurgeon’s campaign is a “revolution,” a new Quinnipiac poll showed Carson holding a 10-point lead with women over Hillary Clinton, and Carson’s new rap radio ad was scheduled to hit the airwaves.