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Donald Trump Claims 'Great Relationship With the Blacks' [VIDEO]

Signs Using Racial Slur for Obama Reported at Kentucky Campus

University of Kentucky police are investigating two incidents in which signs referring to President Obama with a racial epithet were posted on and near the campus. On Thursday morning, UK Law School student Ches Clark found a sign on a bus shelter that said "How Do You Spell N----r? OBAMA," the Lexington Herald-Leader...

Alabama Leaders Apologize for Mishandled 1944 Rape Case

ABBEVILLE, Ala. -- Nearly 70 years after she was raped by a gang of white men, Recy Taylor got an apology Monday from leaders of a rural southeast Alabama community who acknowledged that her attackers escaped prosecution because of racism and an investigation bungled by police. "It is apparent that the system failed you...

FBI Probes Racism Motive in Failed MLK Day Bombing

Authorities say a potentially lethal bomb hidden in a backpack planted along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., could have inflicted "multiple casualties," and the FBI is investigating whether the motive was racism. The bomb was defused at the scene before it could explode Monday, and no one was...

Shirley Sherrod, Ousted USDA Official: Where Is She Now?

Shirley Sherrod was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Shirley Sherrod Made News in 2010 When She: Was forced to...

Background on Racism

Racism is generally understood as either belief that different racial groups are characterized by intrinsic characteristics or abilities and that some such groups are therefore naturally superior to others, or as practices that discriminate against members of particular racial groups, for example by perpetuating unequal access to resources between groups.

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