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NYC Mayor-Elect Agrees to Settle Central Park Five Suit - Jamie Foxx throws fund-raising party for Trayvon Martin at his house; Rev. Al Sharpton calls for a boycott against Kanye West’s confederate clothing line; plus more.— Natelege Whaley New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has agreed to settle the case of the Central Park Five, who were wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 1989. Ken Burns directed the documentary about the kids who spent more than a decade in prison, and were released after another man confessed. The men filed a lawsuit in 2003 against the city that has yet to be acknowledged. (Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images)

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Jamie Foxx Throws Fundraiser for Trayvon Martin - Jamie Foxx invited some of his famous friends over to his house this weekend for a good cause. The gathering was held to raise money for the family of Trayvon Martin, whose parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, and his brother, Jahvaris Martin, were in attendance. Both Russell Simmons and Harry Belafonte spoke during the event. (Photo: Tyrese via Instagram)

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Rev. Al Sharpton Leads Boycott Against Kanye’s Confederacy - Kanye West’s new confederate flag merchandise has been bad for business. The latest naysayer of the gear is Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. The Los Angeles chapter of the organization is calling for a national boycott of the line. “Kanye West selling jackets with the Confederate flag on them is a disgrace and embarrassment,” said Rev. K.W. Tulloss, the NAN Los Angeles president. (Photos from left: RevPix/All Access / Splash News, Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

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White Supremacist Denies African Blood Ties on Talk Show - Craig Cobb, a proud white supremacist who is planning to open an all-white Caucasian community in North Dakota, was not amused to find out he has some African in him. As a guest on the Trisha Show, he agreed to take a DNA test and the results came back that he was 14 percent Sub Saharan African. Cobb refused to acknowledge any of his Blackness and called it “statistical noise.” (Photo: The Trisha Show via NBC Universal)

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Black UCLA Student Calls Out Lack of Diversity at University - Sy Stokes is tired of not seeing faces like his on campus. He released a video to spark discussion about the lack of diversity before the university’s application to give potential students the truth. “Now you tell me I should be proud to be at UCLA, when only 35 of us are predicted to walk across that stage,” Stokes says in a spoken word piece he performs in the video. (Photo: Sy Stokes via YouTube)

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Louisiana Family Rescues Kidnap Victim - Brittney Arceneaux, 29, was rescued by her family almost three days after she went missing. In a chilling photo, her uncle carries Arceneaux, who was covered in blood, to a vehicle soon after they bust down a door of an abandoned house where they found her. Arceneaux’s ex-boyfriend Scott Thomas, who has been abusive to her in the past, was shot dead by an armed member of Arceneaux’s family. (Photo: AP Photo/The Lafayette Daily Advertiser, Leslie Westbrook)

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George Stinney, Black Teen Executed in 1944, May Get New Trial - Supporters of George Stinney, a 14-year-old who was executed in 1944 for killing two white girls in South Carolina, are asking for a new trial in his case. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of Stinney that is asking for his name to be exonerated instead of pardoned. Much of the evidence that the deputies used to convict Stinney has disappeared. (Photo: AP Photo/South Carolina Department of Archives and History)

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President Honors Nation’s Oldest Veteran - This was a special Veterans Day for Richard Overton, the nation’s oldest living veteran, who is 107 years old. Overton, who fought in World War II, was honored by President Obama on Monday at a ceremony held at Arlington National Cemetery. "If man had it, I'd have been dead, but God's got it, and he's keeping me well," said Overton, according to CNN.  (Photo: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Two Men Charged in Killing of Mississippi Family - Cedric Mason was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and kidnapping in connection with the deaths of Altira Hughes-Smith, 30, her son Jaidon, 7, and her husband, Laterry Smith, 34. Timothy Burns, 42, was also arrested and charged with two counts of murder in the incident. The family of three vanished after a car accident Nov. 2 in Hermanville, Mississippi. (Photo: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Florida School Board Votes to Change Name of HS Named After KKK Member - A predominantly Black high school in Florida that was named after Confederate Army General Nathan Bedford Forrest, also known as the “grand wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, will be receiving a new name. The school board voted unanimously to move forward. Omotayo Richmond, a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, launched a Change.org petition calling for the change. (Photo: Courtesy of The Library of Congress)

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Program Looks to Save Black Agriculture - The U.S. Agriculture Department is praising a pilot project launched by the Roanoke Electrical Cooperative-Roanoke Center in Ahoskie, North Carolina, that will help Black landowners of the South maintain their property. Of the 229 million acres of privately owned southern forest, about 16 million are owned by Blacks and minorities.  (Photo: AP Photo/Bruce Smith)