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WASHINGTON — Vincent Wigfall served four tours of duty in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. Like thousands of veterans who served in that divisive war and others most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, he came back a changed man.

“That’s bad history. That’s the kind of history that in an extreme form leads to Dylann Storm Roofs,” he said, referencing the man accused of killing nine Black South Carolina church members in June.

Bledsoe, who gained national attention for creating a thriving Internet design company, could not fathom the youth’s position…at first.

When a new inmate steps behind the walls of a prison in Georgia, the entirety of his or her criminal record and mental state is fed into a complex algorithm called the Next Generation Assessment.

More than 16,000 Tuskegee Airmen made history, but now only about 250 remain. They see each other mostly at funerals these days.

On Wednesday October 21, 2015 at the University of Akron’s James A. Rhodes (JAR) Arena, LeBron James and the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama addressed this announcement to over one thousand students at a special event focused on education.

“It’s something the families talk about while waiting to visit our loved ones,” he added. “People don’t realize the burden paying so much of a phone bill is.”

For the nation’s automakers, diversity is measured in colors and it’s better to be a solid green than a token yellow or a non-existent red.

The most surprising element of Saturday’s Million Man March was its women. The 20th anniversary celebration of 1995’s landmark gathering included women of all racial origins, religions, creeds and cultures.

On Saturday, October 10, thousands descended on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, organized by the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrahkhan, demanding justice for Black victims of police brutality.

Doing something concrete about the longstanding dilemma of domestic violence calls for a new approach to searching out solutions. Male awareness is an important place to focus for obvious reasons. After all, this crime is most often committed by men.
The MSR sat with associates Sam Simmons (SAFE Families), Charisma Smith of From PRostitution to Independence, Dignity & Equality (PRIDE), Charles Dixon and Donald Collier (BeMore Campaign) at Family Partnership’s South Minneapolis offices to discuss domestic abuse

The Minneapolis City Council last week approved funding for a study to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour as well as a proposed ordinance to help protect minimum-wage workers, including “predictability pay” for employees if their work schedule changes, cancels or shortens with less than 24 hours’ notice. The council’s actions may have been influenced by labor unrest at the downtown Twins stadium.

Black women were murdered at more than double the rate of White women in 2012 and almost all (92 percent) of these women knew their assailant, according a report titled, “When Men Murder Women” by the Violence Policy Center.

During his speech at the 45th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) Phoenix Awards Dinner, President Barack Obama celebrated the critical role that Black women have played in “every great movement in American history” and pledged to address challenges they face in the workplace and in the criminal justice system.