The Skanner Breaking News July 20, 2015

President Obama: Close Equality Gap to Lower US Prison Rates

President Barack Obama told the NAACP national convention Tuesday that race has always played an outsized role in incarceration … Read more about it

How to Keep Our Black Boys Alive

Marian Wright Edelman addresses systematic racial profiling in her newest column … Read the whole story

Trumping the Donald on Immigration

Bill Fletcher Jr., exposes Trump's recent media blitz as racist and xenophobic … Read all about it

Clinton Eulogizes Promoter of National Civil Rights Museum

Former President Bill Clinton led the eulogies Saturday for D'Army Bailey, a lawyer and judge who helped preserve the Memphis hotel where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and turn it into the National Civil Rights Museum … Find out more

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