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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.

A stabbing captured on video has been the unlikely spark for a fiery debate on race and class in Chicago’s premier gay neighborhood.The video captured a large group of black youth getting into an altercation with a 25-year-old victim.  The scuffle in the late hours of Sunday, July 3rd, re

One of every five residents of San Francisco is Chinese-American. And many don't read English, which means city election ballots have to be translated into Chinese.That presents an opportunity for the politicians doing the translating.Take last November's ballot from one if the city's districts.

Manning Marable, one of the leading scholars of African-American history in the United States, has died at age 60. He had been hospitalized with pneumonia last month, according to reports."