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Written by By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent

Published: 16 February 2015

 

THIRD IN A SERIES: ‘The Word says faith without works is dead. There has to be fruit, there has to be action, there has to be community…there has to be active justice’   

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Written by By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent

Published: 12 February 2015

 

Researchers say prosecutors have increasingly taken a harder look at flawed cases, which contributed to a jump in prisoners freed after wrongful convictions 

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Published: 11 February 2015

 

Three young white men who beat, ran over and killed a car plant worker in Mississippi's capital city were sentenced to federal prison following a hate crimes investigation 

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Written by Michael Biesecker, Associated Press

Published: 11 February 2015

 

A long-running parking dispute between neighbors motivated a man to kill a woman, her newlywed husband and her sister at a quiet condominium complex near the University of North Carolina

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Written by By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent

Published: 09 February 2015

 

SECOND IN A SERIES: ‘My mom was awesome, she never talked down to me…. But I felt like…I owed it to her to be perfect so she doesn’t feel like keeping me was a mistake’

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Written by By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent

Published: 05 February 2015

 

This series by NNPA Washington Correspondent Jazelle Hunt examines rape in the Black community and the long path toward healing  

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Written by By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent

Published: 02 February 2015

 

Blacks live disproportionately in states that experienced the greatest income inequality

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Written by Howard Fendrich, AP Pro Football Writer

Published: 02 February 2015

 

A Super Bowl that got off to a slow start wound up with a 'Whoa!' finish, a lot like the New England Patriots' entire season

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Written by Arashi Young of The Skanner News

Published: 31 January 2015

 

American poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes has been commemorated in a Google Doodle  

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Written by Kimberly Hefling, AP Education Writer

Published: 26 January 2015

 

 Overdue updates in the works to Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' education law