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Byron Carter Jr.’s Family Sues Austin, Texas, in Shooting Death - The family of the Byron Carter Jr., the young Black man shot in May by a white police officer, announced Tuesday that they are suing the city of Austin in federal court for the death of their loved one.(Photo: Law Enforcement)

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Have You Seen Jahessye Shockley? - Five-year-old Jahessye Shockley disappeared Tuesday from her home in Glendale, which is a suburb of Phoenix in Arizona. She is described as Black with brown eyes. She is 3 feet 5 inches tall and was last seen wearing a plain white shirt, blue jean shorts and pink sandals. Police believe she may have been kidnapped and have established a 24-hour tip line. Anyone with information is asked to call 623-930-HELP (4357).

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Study Shows Minority Students Perform Better With Minority Instructors - Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American students were 2.9 percent more likely to pass courses when the instructor was of a similar racial or ethnic background as the students, according to a new report called A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom. (Photo by Matt McClain/For The Washington Post)

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Civil Rights Leaders Seek to Stop Credit Report Usage in Hiring - In a letter released Tuesday, more than 25 civil rights organizations, consumer advocates and labor unions called upon TransUnion, a credit report and credit score company, to immediately stop its sale of credit reports to employers.(Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn)

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Federal Report: L.A. Schools Provide Inferior Education to Minority Students - The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday Oct. 17 that, after a 19-month civil rights investigation, they found that the Los Angeles Unified School District was failing to provide equal education to English-learners and Black students. In turn, this systemic failure has resulted in widespread academic disparities in the nation’s second largest school district, they said.(Photo: AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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Occupy Atlanta Protesters Evicted From Park - Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed issued an executive order Wednesday, Oct.  12 requiring Occupy Atlanta protesters to vacate the six acres of Atlanta’s Woodruff Park by Monday.  As protesters readied themselves to go to jail on Monday, the mayor announced that they could remain camped out in the park until Nov. 7.(Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESSAP)

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Harvard Professor Settles With Cambridge Police Over Discrimination - Neuroscientist S. Allen Counter recently settled a federal discrimination claim against the Cambridge Police Department stemming from his 2006 arrest on a domestic violence charge, of which he was accused of pushing his 17-year-old daughter out of a moving car. Although the Harvard University professor was eventually cleared of the charges, he filed a lawsuit in 2009 over conduct he called "police abuse of power and discretion against minorities."(Photo: LA Unified Schoot District)

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Skirt Shutdown With Clean Up - Facing a temporary shutdown for routine cleaning of Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park Thursday, Oct. 13, Occupy Wall Street protesters were told by the city that they could remain in the park after about 600-700 protesters banded together and cleaned up the mess themselves.(Photo: AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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U.S. Postal Service Announces New Kwanzaa Stamp - The U.S. Postal Service issued a newly designed "Kwanzaa (Forever)" stamp commemorating the traditional African-American holiday on Friday, Oct. 14.  (Photo: US Post Office)

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Harry Belafonte Calls Cain a "Bad Apple" - During an appearance on the The Joy Behar Show on Friday, Oct. 14, entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte blasted Cain and the Republican Party for misrepresenting the concerns of Black Americans. When initially asked about Cain, Belafonte joked, "Who?"(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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March for Jobs and Justice in Washington D.C. - In an effort to reflect their disapproval of the lack of jobs, hundreds of people marched from the Washington monument to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Saturday in a rally and march headed by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and other civil rights organizations.(Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESSAP)

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Dedication - Thousands of people gathered on Sunday morning for the rescheduled dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. The ceremony featured speeches by President Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton, the King family and performances by Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder.(Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESSAP)

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Cornel West Arrested - Activist and professor Cornel West was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court building Sunday afternoon while taking part in the Occupy DC protests.  He was later released and no charges were filed.

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Anniversary of DJ Henry’s Death - On the one-year anniversary of the death of 20-year-old Danroy Henry Jr., who was shot to death "unreasonably" by a Pleasantville, N.Y., police officer , his friends and family gathered Monday to honor the college student and dedicate an athletic field in his name in Easton, Massachusetts.   (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESSAP)

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