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Details: Written by Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor); Published: 16 August 2016

Ashley D. Bell speaks with The Associated Press Aug. 9 in Washington. Bell, who was one of the 18 black delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, has been hired as an RNC senior strategist and national director of African-American engagement. (AP Photo/Paul Holston)

Strategy focuses on outreach at HBCUs, stressing economic empowerment and criminal justice reform

Details: Written by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN,  MAX BECHERER, Associated Press; Published: 15 August 2016

Feds declare a major disaster in the state

Details: Written by DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press; Published: 15 August 2016

GOP-led Congress has opposed President's efforts to close prison

Details: Written by TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press; Published: 14 August 2016

One person shot Sunday as tension persists over death of 23-year-old

Details: Written by BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press; Published: 14 August 2016

Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces raise their flag in the center of the town of Manbij after driving Islamic State militants out of the area, in Aleppo province, Syria. Syrian Kurdish officials and an activist group say U.S.-backed fighters have seized a key Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria after two months of heavy fighting and freed hundreds of civilians the extremists had used as human shields. (ANHA via AP)

Women celebrate by burning black robes; men shave their beards

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 14 August 2016

Brilliant gymnast can leap twice her own height

Details: Written by LISA LERER, KEN THOMAS, Associated Press; Published: 14 August 2016

Clintons gave more than $1 million to charity

Details: Written by STEVE PEOPLES, JILL COLVIN, JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press; Published: 13 August 2016

Trump's trash talk is "like an addiction he can't stop"

Details: Written by LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press; Published: 13 August 2016

The Marine Corps is looking for a few good women

Details: Written by MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press; Published: 12 August 2016

Aryan Guard rally in Calgary in October 2007. Photo by Robert Thivierge (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Sixty-two percent of young African-Americans surveyed said they were very concerned about the threat of violence from white extremists

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