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Half a century after the violent civil rights movement - known as the "Bloody Sunday" - - shocked the United States into awareness and provoked changes in equal rights for African-Americans, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the racial history still casts its shadow on the nation.

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President Barack Obama said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wariness flows from significant racial disparities in the administration of justice.

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Half a century after the violent civil rights movement - known as the "Bloody Sunday" - - shocked the United States into awareness and provoked changes in equal rights for African-Americans, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the racial history still casts its shadow on the nation.

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A U.S. Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department — with officers routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force, issuing petty citations and making baseless traffic stops, according to law enforcement officials familiar with the report.

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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on whether same-sex couples have a right to marry everywhere in America sets the stage for a potentially historic ruling on one of the country's most sweeping social issues.

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The two New York City police officers who were ambushed and shot to death in their vehicle were "quite simply, assassinated," and the suspect had made Instagram posts that were very anti-police, the police commissioner said.

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President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters Tuesday night for racially charged violence in Missouri, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property after a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot a black teenager.

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President Barack Obama said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wariness flows from significant racial disparities in the administration of justice.

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