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NC Wrongfully Sterilized Victims May Get $50,000 in Compensation - A task force announced on Nov. 10 that it is recommending to the state of North Carolina that women who were sterilized against their will between 1929 and 1974  be paid $50,000 each in reparations. (Photo: AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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New Orleans New Curfew Slammed by Residents - On Nov. 5, the New Orleans City Council approved a strict curfew for people 16 and younger in the French Quarter. Many critics of the law believed it was passed to keep low-income Blacks out of the presence of tourists. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Cleaning Company Settles Discrimination Lawsuit - On Jan. 6, one of the largest cleaning companies, Matrix, L.L.C. agreed to pay $450,000 to 15 former employees to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. According to the suit, Matrix officials ordered a white supervisor not to hire any more Black cleaners at a site in Concordville, Pennsylvania.   (Photo: Yves Herman/Landov)

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Georgia School Uses Slavery Examples on Math Worksheet - At Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross, Georgia, parents were up in arms because their children were given an arithmetic worksheet that used examples of slavery. “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?” one of the questions asked. (Photo: Courtesy ABC Action News)

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Dallas Teen Deported to Columbia Returns Homes - Jakadrien Turner, the 15-year-old teen who was mistakenly deported to Columbia last April, was back on a plane home on Jan. 6.(Photo: AP/File)

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Obama Administration Redefines “Rape” - On Jan. 6, the Obama Administration expanded the definition of rape to include men as victims for the first time, in addition to instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent. (Photo: REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye)

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More Lawsuits Filed Over Sex Abuse of Haitian Boys  - Seventeen Haitian men are suing Fairfield University in Connecticut, the Society of Jesus and others, alleging they failed to protect them from a man who sexually abused them when they were poor children or young adults attending a school he founded in Haiti, the Associated Press reported on Jan. 9. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Health Care Spending Nationally Remained Slight, Government Reports - According to a report by the Obama Administration, spending on health care nationally rose by a relatively modest 3.9 percent in 2010 for the second consecutive year, a reflection of Americans postponing visits to doctors and lower prescription drug purchases.(Photo: The Press-Register / Landov)