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Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders wondered during Thursday's Democratic debate whether a toxic water crisis like the one in Flint, Michigan, would happen to a town that's not...

The only thing I'm currently interested in being as a black lesbian is being free--free from police harassment, free from white supremacy and free from fear-- and yet...

A group ;of Confederate-flag-waving protesters gathered near ;the Oklahoma high school where President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak Wednesday afternoon, insisting that what they were doing was about heritage rather than racism. ; "We're not gonna stand down from our heritage. You know, this flag's not racist. And I know a lot of people think it is, but it's really not. It's just a southern thing, that's it," ;Trey Johnson, who drove three hours from Texas to join the protest, told KFOR. "It is about history. It's not about racism at all because both black men, as well as white men, stood side by side," said another protester, ...

Spike Lee was ;surprised to learn that he was being honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — a group he hadn't been afraid to criticize in the past for its lack of diversity. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

BERKELEY, Mo. -- Minutes before Christmas Day officially started, a few dozen activists stood outside the Cathedral Basilica in Berkeley, Missouri, with lit candles and posters in memory of Antonio Martin, a black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer Tuesday night. "The intent is to gather people in honor of him and other people who have been slain by police," Lydia Marie, 23, an intern for Amnesty International who coordinated the demonstration, told The Huffington Post. "This is another Christmas Eve a family is spending without their child who was lost to police violence." "As a black man, I’m trying to consistently deal with this, waking up and seeing slayings on the news," said Michael Anthony, 29, a cinematographer from St. ...

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Slate's Alvaro Bedoya published an article chronicling how the civil rights leader had been systematically surveilled, harassed and threatened by the United...

You can put your aspirations for winning rapper DLOW's "Bet You Can't Do It Like Me" challenge to rest because this math teacher and his students just slayed...