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Unemployment Spreading - According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute on Tuesday, Oct. 4, southern sunbelt states where African-Americans sought economic refuge in the past are no longer beacons of opportunity. By 2010, southern bastions such as Charlotte, Miami and Tampa  all posted unemployment rates not only above the national Black jobless rate, but also some of the highest rates overall.(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Racial Intimidation on the Rise at MSU - The normal pressures of college life — exams and term papers, part-time jobs and extracurricular commitments — can be stressful enough. At Michigan State University, Black students say they face another worry: incidents of blatant bigotry and racial intimidation. According to the experiences of African-American students reported on Tuesday, racial intimidation is on the rise at their school.(Photo: Staten Island Advance/Landov)

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More Minorities Suspended - Black and Latino students in public schools are suspended at rates much higher than their white counterparts — a practice that has no positive effect on student behavior or high school graduation rates, says a new report by the National Education Policy Center released Wednesday, Oct. 5.(Photo: Tami Chappell/Reuters)

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Civil Rights Icon Dies - Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights icon and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died Wednesday, Oct. 5. He was 82.(Photo: REUTERS/Tami Chappell)

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Former Apple CEO and Founder Dies - Apple announced Wednesday evening that co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away. He was 56.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Legal Activist Dies - Law professor, legal scholar and racial justice advocate Derrick Bell died Wednesday from carcinoid cancer at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. He was 80 years old.(Photo: David Shankbone)

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FDNY Hiring Practices to Be Monitored - An independent monitor must be appointed to ensure that the Fire Department of New York fairly hires in an effort to become more diverse, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Black Unemployment Drops - Announced on Friday, Black unemployment dropped from 16.7 to 16 percent last month. Black teen unemployment also showed improvement, dipping from 46.5 to 44.2 percent. The national unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent.(Photo: AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Black Leaders Receive Nobel Peace Prize - The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was jointly awarded to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Muslim activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work, as announced on Friday, Oct. 7.  (Photo: AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

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NBA Cancels First Two Weeks of Season - The National Basketball Association announced Monday, Oct. 10, that the first two weeks of the season have been canceled. Owners and players weren’t able to reach a deal during Monday’s seven-hour negotiating session.(Photo: Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

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African- Americans Occupy Wall Street - Recent Occupy Wall Street minority protesters say that African-Americans need help more than anyone, and that Blacks should be attending the protests in record numbers.(Photo: Raymond Haddad/BET.com)

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Supreme Court Rejects Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal - Philadelphia prosecutors had requested to re-impose a death sentence on Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther convicted of killing white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner thirty years ago, but the Supreme Court rejected the request on Tuesday, Oct. 11.(Photo: REUTERS/Tim Shaffer)