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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Jane Fonda declared, “[W]e have to include race and class in everything we do as we go forward.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett

USA Today sports writer Lorenzo Reyes apparently cannot write about a quarterback without injecting into the story racism and racial motivations where they do not really belong.

“[W]e cannot deny the legacy of racism that continues to drive inequality in how the justice system is experienced by so many Americans,” Barack Obama writes in his 56 page essay.

Former Obama aides joined CNN’s discussion, asserting that racism absolutely had something to do with Republican opposition to his agenda.

Several men charged the man, cursing at him as they chased into a parking garage and kicked him repeatedly as they drug him around the floor and stripped his pants off.

TEL AVIV – The wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, a document discovered by a German historian in the Berlin archives shows.

A play on the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in the San Francisco Police Department’s union newsletter now has the SFPD under fire, ABC 7 reports. The controversial photo features two labs. The black one is wearing a sign that reads, “Black Labs Matter,”

Delegates who belong to various racial and ethnic “caucus” groups will gather separately to determine their joint interests and goals for the convention as a whole.

All times CDT. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will be addressing the assembled police officers, family members and dignitaries gathered to pay tribute to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Brent Thompson and Dallas Police Department Officers Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, Corporal Lorne Ahrens, and Sergeant Michael Smith.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian posted a pro-Black Lives Matter letter on her website Friday about how she does not want to have to warn her son to “watch his back” or be “scared of police,” after five police officers were shot and killed and seven more wounded at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, Texas.

Friday on ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike,” director Spike Lee discussed his movie “2 Fists Up,” which can be seen on ESPN’s The Undefeated. The movie goes in-depth on last November’s boycott by University of Missouri’s football players over the Concerned Student

A new study shows that life expectancy for white women in America has dropped slightly while the lifespan of black American men has risen.

A Texas Hispanic man was prosecuted and sentenced for making false statements in connection to a 2012 assault of a gay black man in Corpus Christi.

Actor Stephan James has been cast in Fox’s upcoming racially-charged “event” television series Shots Fired.

Wednesday’s episode of Black-ish confronts police brutality in America, the criminal justice system, and the difficult discussions and decisions every black parent must face in a country where “the system is rigged against us.”

Just when the world went back to ignoring Kanye West’s latest Twitter tantrum, the rapper continued his crass commentary by begging “white publications” to stop writing about “black music.”

Hillary Clinton’s “firewall,” they call it. They don’t even wink and nod anymore. But they all know what they mean by it.

The part-socialist, part-black nationalist Black Panther Party is headline news again, thanks to Beyonce’s Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance of her song “Formation,”–“a big wet kiss to Black Lives Matter” that pays tribute to the 1960s militant group.

The New Trier Township High School administration appears to be misleading local parents intentionally about the mandatory day of “racial identity” seminars held on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Civil rights veteran Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) compared Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump to segregationist George Wallace in an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.

The 43rd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision showcases what is arguably the greatest failure of black leadership over the past four decades: its unquestioning support for an institution responsible for decimating the black community, namely, abortion on

At least one thousand students skipped New Trier High School’s mandatory day of “racial identity” classes on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

New Trier High School, one of the country’s top public schools, is forcing students to attend seminars on racial identity on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “The goals for this day are to help New Trier students develop a

A coalition of Muslims in Cleveland gathered together at a press conference on Wednesday to protest against “profiling” of Muslims in the wake of multiple terror attacks in Paris and the United States. Their goal, they claimed, was to bring awareness to their faith. But they also attacked Donald Trump.

Police were called to an altercation at a New York City bus union Christmas party after a black man called a white man a “piece of s**t” and then punched him because he brought a black woman as a date to the event.

As a strike against its “racist” past, a city in Florida has renamed a stretch of Old Dixie Highway for Barack Obama.

President Obama says Black Lives Matter, the controversial protest movement currently stoking anti-cop hatred in America, is still a force for good.

Police are now searching for Euric Cain, a black gunman who allegedly attempted to kidnap a woman in New Orleans but was stopped by a heroic medical student. Before the suspect was identified by police, media had provided little help by avoiding the description of the suspect due to politically correct fears about race.

Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offer a possible theory as to why a number of protests inspired by alleged racial incidents have sprung up in recent months all over the country. According to Limbaugh,

President Obama says he is inspired by the fact that his presidency is helping the country right racial injustices that still existed, particularly in law enforcement.

UPDATE:  Earlier in the interview, President Obama discussed criminal justice reform in segments of the interview aired on “NBC Nightly News.” He stated that “Pretty much up and down the line, what we see is disparities in how white, black,

A student body-slammed the principal of Florin High School in Sacramento during a fight Monday that required police to arrest three students.

On the same day Torii Hunter retired, prompting a tweet from former teammate LaTroy Hawkins about the paucity of blacks in major league baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke of increasing black representation in MLB’s bureaucracy.

The city of Oakland has hired the director of Portland’s Office of Equity and Human Rights to head a new equity department in Oakland, the East Bay Citizen reports.

“Out there, there ain’t no black and white, there’s only fast and slow. Nothing matter – not color, not money, not even hate.”

As part of his campaign for president, Dr. Ben Carson visited Ferguson, Missouri, the site of some of the most destructive rioting in recent years. While touring the city, Carson insisted that the nation needs to “de-emphasize” race and accused Obama of dragging the nation backwards on the issue.