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Police move in on a crowd throwing rocks at police in Milwaukee, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. Shots rang out during unrest after a police shooting that killed a man Saturday. Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim and take the person to a hospital, as tense skirmishes erupted for a second night following the police shooting of a black man. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) 

Wisconsin’s rates of Black unemployment, incarceration among highest in the nation

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This undated file photo provided by the Milwaukee County Sheriff shows Sylville K. Smith. Smith, who was killed in Milwaukee on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in a police shooting that sparked two nights of violence in Milwaukee, suffered from cognitive and mental health issues, and he carried a gun because he had been robbed and shot more than once in the past. Smith's grandfather says he had a lengthy criminal past, but was just trying to survive in the inner city. (Milwaukee County Sheriff via AP, File) 

Sylville K. Smith had a lengthy criminal past, but was just trying to survive in the inner city, his grandfather said 

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In this Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016 photo, probationary Los Angeles Police Officer Asia Hardy plays with her daughter, 4-year-old Mali Hudson outside her home in Altadena, Calif. Hardy says she wanted to become a police officer and patrol one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles to serve as an example to other black people. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) 

Renata Phillip was 11 years into a satisfying teaching career when made a drastic career change to become a police officer 

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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 

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Feds declare a major disaster in the state          

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

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

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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    

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Brilliant gymnast can leap twice her own height    

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Clintons gave more than $1 million to charity      

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