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Two-star treatment for the west side

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By Emma Tolbert

Black Friday bargains and you

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By Samuetta Hill Drew

Alabama needs early voting

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Rep. Craig Ford

By Rep. Craig Ford

Protect your peace

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By Tijuana J. Williams

A community of journalists and politicians deliver an emotional goodbye to Gwen Ifill

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A community of journalists and politicians mourn the loss of veteran journalist Gwen Ifill. (Lauren Victoria Burke/NNPA)

By Lauren Victoria Burke

NNPA Newswire

Oldest surviving Tuskegee Airman, Willie Rogers, dies at 101

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St. Petersburg, Fla hosted the second annual Veterans Day Celebration on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 in Williams Park. Willie Rogers (center) was presented with the“2015 Honored Veteran” Award for his service as a Master Sergeant with the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. (The City of St. Petersburg/Flickr Creative Commons)

By The Associated Press 

Big-voiced Dap-Kings soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60

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In this March 19, 2010 file photo, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings perform at the SPIN Party at Stubb's during the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Jones, a big-voiced soul singer who performed with high energy onstage has died at age 60 in New York, after battling pancreatic cancer. Her representative Judy Miller Silverman says she died Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, at a Cooperstown hospital surrounded by her band, the Dap-Kings. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

By Jake Coyle

Associated Press

Geneva Reed-Veal, Mother of Sandra Bland, Is Fighting On

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Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland, received the Social Justice Award at the Sixth Annual WEEN Awards in New York City. Bland died while in police custody.

By Ricardo A. Hazell

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