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A restaurant owner posted a demeaning Facebook message on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, playing into the racially charged stereotype of African Americans liking fried chicken and waffles with watermelon. The move sparked complaints about "outright" racism.

A 45-year-old unidentified man set himself on fire outside Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

The CNN political pundit and Columbia University professor didn't mince words about the African-Americans that the President-elect has recently met with.

The Talladega College Marching Tornadoes have raised more than $500,000 on their GoFundMe page to cover inauguration expenses after the band from the small and historically Black institution in Alabama took major heat for agreeing to perform at Donald Trump's inaugural parade.

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Bishop Eddie Long has passed away and he will soon be funeralized. However, Black church communities cannot bury his troubled past with him. The church—New Birth et al.—must reckon with the Goliath of child sexual abuse and rescue the true Davids, our children, from the perverse and death-dealing realities of molestation, incest and rape.

Rapper Clifford "T.I." Harris pens a open letter to Donald Trump urging for understanding and transparency ahead of inauguration.