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U.K. Police Arrest Over 160 in Weekend London Riots - Violence broke out in the north London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday night amid community anger over a fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four.(Photo: AP Photo/Lewis Whyld/PA Wire)

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Study Tells Why Black Students Perform Poorly on Standardized Tests - A study from Stanford University concluded that African-American students perform poorly on standardized tests because they fear incorrect answers will confirm negative stereotypes about their race, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education writes in an article published last week. When students aren't thinking about these stereotypes, they perform better on the test.(Photo: Commercial Appeal /Landov)

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South Africa to Open Nelson Mandela Museum - South African officials say they will build a dedicated museum honoring Nelson Mandela's struggle against apartheid, on the site where he was arrested 49 years ago. (Photo: REUTERS/Michael Kooren)

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New York's "Rent Is Too D*** High" Candidate Getting Evicted? - Jimmy McMillan, a New York man who hilariously ran for governor and mayor of the City of New York several times in the past representing the Rent Is Too D*** High party, says he is being evicted from his rent-controlled Manhattan apartment because his landlords want more than the $872.96 he pays in rent, the New York Post reports. But owners say the reason they want him out is because the apartment is not his primary residence. (Photo: Audrey C. Tiernan-Pool/Getty Images)

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Cornel West and Tavis Smiley Launch Nationwide Poverty Tour - Princeton professor Cornel West and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley, both vocal critics of President Obama, embarked on a "poverty tour" Sunday in Chicago that will take them to 16 poor communities across the nation. The tour seeks to highlight what they say is lack of effort by both the president and Congress to address the needs of the Americans who have been hardest hit by the recession, West says.(Photo: www.newsone.com)

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Five Officers Found Guilty in Post-Katrina Shootings - Almost six years after Hurricane Katrina and five weeks after the start of the trial, five of the officers involved in the deadly shooting on a New Orleans bridge after the storm were convicted by a federal grand jury Friday. (Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Landov)

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BET Networks Debuts "Michelle Obama on a Mission: Impact Africa" - Earlier this summer, BET News correspondent Lola Ogunnaike traveled with the first family, documenting their experiences in Botswana and South Africa. In the subsequent documentary, "Michelle Obama On a Mission: Impact Africa," which was previewed during the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Philadelphia on Aug. 5, viewers were given a rare, up-close-and-personal view of the first lady as she urged young adults to believe in their abilities and pursue their dreams, no matter their circumstances.

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New HIV Numbers Released: Bad News for African-Americans - According to numbers released last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black male homosexuals saw an alarming increase in their rates of infection between 2006 and 2009. Black male homosexuals were the only subgroup with a notable increase--48 percent during that time period, according to CDC estimates--in new infections during that time period. (Photo: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images)

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Obama Turns 50 - On Thursday, President Obama turned the big 5-0. He celebrated Wednesday night at a fundraiser for the Democratic Party in Chicago. Special guests included native Jennifer Hudson, who sang "Happy Birthday" to Obama, as well as jazz musician Herbie Hancock and rock band OK GO. (Photos from left:  Nam Y. Huh-Pool/Getty Images, photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Black Student Sues School for Celebrating "Wigger Day" - Minnesota student Quera Pruitt is suing Red Wing School ISD No. 256 in Red Wing, Minnesota, for supporting an annual "wigger day" celebration during the time she was enrolled in 2008 and 2009. The day, which stands for "white n*****" day, allowed students to wear clothes and "mimic Black culture," according to the complaint. Pruitt claims that she suffered extreme emotional distress including depression, loss of sleep, stress, crying, humiliation, anxiety and shame.(Photo: Matthew Staver /Landov)

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Contraception Coverage by Insurance Companies Now Mandatory - New standards require health insurance companies to cover government-approved contraception for women.(Photo: Kelsey Snell/MCT)

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Bubba Smith Dies - Former NFL defensive star Bubba Smith, who found a successful second career as an actor, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 66.(Photo: AP Photo/Michigan State University)

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Report: Wealthy Blacks Still Live in Poorer Neighborhoods - Researchers at Brown University's US2010 Project, which analyzes trends in American society, used research from the 2010 U.S. Census to find that Black and Latino households earning more than $75,000 a year tended to live in poorer communities than the average lower-income white household that makes less than $40,000 a year. This was especially true in large metro areas in the Northeast and Midwest, which has a history of segregation, and lowest in the South and Southwest regions of the country, according to the study.(Photo: REUTERS/Keith Bedford/Landov)

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FBI Probed in Racial Profiling Case - The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the FBI for allegedly using unconstitutional practices to gain information about certain racial and ethnic groups. Specifically, the ACLU is looking into the FBI's use of the Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide, which they believe may have been used to investigate people and businesses in Michigan considered "ethnic-oriented," writes a Michigan public radio station.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)