"My life is forever destroyed," said Dillman, who was 24 at the time of her fiancé's death. "My family is forever destroyed." Crystal Dillman says she will never understand why a group of teenage boys beat her fiancé to death.

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DUMMERSTON -- Last year, when Dummerston resident Beverly Kenna heard about The Pinwheels for Peace Project, she thought it would be a great tradition to start in her town. With the war in Iraq raging, the U.S.

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The roiling debate over the arrest of prominent black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has focused on what he and Sgt. James Crowley, the white police officer, said to each other. Their accounts differ, but at least we have their perspectives.

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Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command fears the extreme right will stage a deadly terrorist attack in Britain to try to stoke racial tensions, the Guardian has learned.

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A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate black people from a Southern California city through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday.

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For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe led a life in this northern Louisiana town as peaceful as they come — five kids with his wife of five decades, all raised in the same house, supported by the same job.

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The speech Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday morning has been viewed more than 1.6 million times on YouTube and is being widely e-mailed. While commentators and politicians debated its political success Wednesday, some around the country were responding to Mr.

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...A white separatist group planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena is suing the town, claiming officials are violating the Constitution by asking participants not to bring firearms, changing the parade route by one block and requiring the posting of a bond.....

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....Last December six black teenagers in Louisiana beat up a white classmate. The victim was treated and released from a hospital the same day.

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...A judge ordered a black teenager back to jail, deciding the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

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The tree that started all the trouble was one of those beautiful old Southern oaks with thick outspread boughs offering a haven of cool shade in the noon heat. It stood outside the high school in rural Jena, La., where it was known as the White Tree.

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Students from Howard University in Washington, DC are making the 24 hour trip to Jena to take part in the rally. The students say this is about equal treatment for all and they're proud to be a part of making history.

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Racial Profiling, Racism and Desensitization

An article I read by Chello prompted my writing of this article as I believe we have turned into a nation of buying the fact we're racist when the term has been misused and abused.

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