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New York First State To Offer Free Public University Tuition For Middle Class
February 25, 2026

Hunter College professor placed on leave after hot-mic racist remarks spark backlash

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February 25, 2026

Lincoln University senior killed in stabbing off campus, girlfriend charged with murder

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February 24, 2026

Trump claims there’s almost no crime in DC, but numbers were dropping long before national guard deployment

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February 24, 2026

Happy and free: Joy Reid celebrates her one-year ‘fireversary’ from MS Now

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February 23, 2026

Judge Greg Mathis shares little-known story of how Rev. Jesse Jackson mentored him from jail

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New York First State To Offer Free Public University Tuition For Middle Class
February 23, 2026

Hunter College to review professor’s ‘abhorrent’ hot mic remarks about Black students during virtual meeting

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February 23, 2026

Fashion model arrested in connection with $1 million luxury clothing heist in NYC

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February 23, 2026

Jury rules Black mother and lawyer must pay millions to teen they accused of racial bullying

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February 23, 2026

Florida father sentenced to 37 years after allowing unlicensed teen to drive in deadly crash

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February 22, 2026

21-year-old man missing since Valentine’s Day found hanging in Atlanta park

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February 21, 2026

Nina Westbrook addresses death threat e-mail sent to her and her husband, NBA player Russell Westbrook: ‘Not an isolated incident’

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February 21, 2026

Joanne Bland, a noted Civil Rights activist who helped create Selma’s Foot Soldiers Park, dies at 72

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February 20, 2026

Idaho town votes to remove Juneteenth as official city holiday

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February 19, 2026

Philadelphia slavery exhibit taken down by Trump administration is being restored

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February 18, 2026

Florida woman accused of posing as child protective services worker in attempted kidnapping

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February 18, 2026

Avel Gordly, Oregon’s first Black woman state senator, dies at 79

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February 17, 2026

‘Immensely grateful’: Jesse Jackson’s daughters remember their late father with touching letters, tributes

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February 17, 2026

Black woman killed in car crash involving a man fleeing ICE in Savannah, GA

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February 17, 2026

Naomi Campbell speaks out as her name emerges in newly released Epstein documents: ‘Don’t come at me’

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February 17, 2026

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, is dead at 84

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