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'East Los High' Serves Up Sex Ed With Its Teen Drama

7:08pm October 26, 2015

by Maanvi Singh

For three seasons, fans have flocked to Hulu for East Los High. The teen soap follows its characters through the tumult of adolescence and uses a secret weapon to deliver life lessons along the way.

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Daily News

Greensboro Police React To Racial Bias Accusations

5:45pm October 26, 2015

Greensboro police are reacting after an article in the New York Times highlighted the racial disparity in how the department deals with traffic stops.

National

FBI Director Connects Heightened Police Scrutiny To Violent Crime Spike

4:27pm October 26, 2015

by Martin Kaste

FBI Director James Comey told a meeting of police chiefs Monday that increased scrutiny is having an impact on law enforcement. He said he believes police have become more reluctant to aggressively pursue crime since the uproar over the death of Michael Brown and other high-profile cases.

In 2001, voters in Mississippi decisively rejected changing the state flag.

National

University Of Mississippi Orders State Flag Removed

4:04pm October 26, 2015

by Alexandra Starr

Students and faculty had called for removal of the banner, which displays the Confederate battle emblem.

A newspaper advertisement for The Birth of a Race, in its finished form. Much of the initial footage for the film was thrown out; what was finally released was an awkward mishmash of a Bible epic.

Arts

'Birth Of A Race': The Obscure Demise Of A Would-Be Rebuttal To Racism

6:05pm October 25, 2015

by R.H. Greene

The Birth of a Nation, a Ku Klux Klan-glorifying epic, was America's first blockbuster film. It was also the spark for Emmett J. Scott, a black filmmaker who hoped to answer with a vision of his own.

Jeffrey Okonye (left) and Oviea Akpotaire are fourth-year medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern.

There Were Fewer Black Men In Medical School In 2014 Than In 1978

8:24pm October 24, 2015

by Lauren Silverman

Medical school applications have gone way up in the past few decades. But one group of applicants has not grown: black men.

In a lesson on the patterns of immigration, a caption refers to slaves as "workers," prompting mom and educator Roni Dean-Burren to protest the caption on social media.

Why Calling Slaves 'Workers' Is More Than An Editing Error

4:43pm October 23, 2015

by Laura Isensee

This high school geography textbook calls slaves "workers" and "immigrants." The publisher is working to correct the error, but what does it tell us about teaching history?

African-American patients with chronic kidney disease were half as likely to use an electronic health portal than were non-black patients.

Online Health Tools Might Not Help The People Who Need It Most

1:18pm October 23, 2015

by Lynne Shallcross

An online portal to manage chronic kidney disease sounds great, but poor, older or black people were less likely to use it. That means the shift to e-health could make health disparities worse.

Plenty of fashions adopted by young people get under the skin of adults, but the opposition to sagging often has the feel of a moral panic.

Where Does The 'Pull Up Your Pants' School Of Black Politics Come From?

5:48pm October 22, 2015

by Leah Donnella

The origins of "respectability politics" are more complicated than you might think.

Kerry, Netanyahu Discuss Recent Violence In Israel

4:29pm October 22, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State John Kerry meets Israel's prime minister Thursday in a bid to calm Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Kerry also huddles with major players on Syria, a day after Russia hosted Bashar al-Assad.