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How Ferguson Prepared DeRay Mckesson for Trump

Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the waning years of the Obama administration, a new generation of black activists emerged with a simple refrain for the streets and the tweets: Black lives matter. That rallying cry would go on to spark an international organization led by black women, several lists of policy…

Major League Baseball Wants Cindy Hyde-Smith to Return its $5,000 Donation

Cindy Hyde-Smith campaigns in Mississippi before the runoff election.Zach Roberts/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Almost two weeks after Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said that if she were invited to a public hanging she would be “in the front row,” Major League Baseball PAC donated $5,000, the legal maximum, to her campaign. Now…