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Arrest at Walmart triggers charges of racism

Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute, she faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years. Full story

Noreen Hyslop / The Daily States

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Obama, China’s Hu open talks as world watches
Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President Barack Obama says that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but the world.

Panel: Wait until 50 for mammogram

NYT: Hunger in U.S. at 14-year high

Ill. townsfolk lobby for Gitmo inmates

'Unfriend' chosen as word of the year

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Meltdown over 'Chocolate Santa'
Nov. 13: A proposed visit by the "Chocolate Santa" to a New Orleans school is stirring up a holiday controversy. WDSU's Latonya Norton reports.

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Rep. Lewis' 1961 attacker apologizes

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Iverson and Grizzlies call it quits

Michelle Obama talks to girls in Denver about mentor program

Cleveland public calls for more police accountability

Blacks and Latinos more likely to face foreclosure than whites

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Breaking Barriers: U.S. minority leaders
From the first Hispanic governor (in 1853) to the first African-American to be elected president, learn about how ethnic barriers have been broken in the United States through the years.

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NAACP at 100
Click to view images of the people and events that helped to shape the NAACP.

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A look at the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.