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In a Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 file photo,Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Snyder has released some, but not all, of his government emails related to Flint’s water emergency. The 274 pages cover 2014 and 2015. That includes the 18-month period during which the city switched its water source while under state financial management until it reconnected to Detroit’s system because of lead contamination blamed on state regulatory failures. Snyder has withheld the emails of others in the executive office along with his own emails from earlier. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File) 

Advisor Mike Gadola expressed concerns about Flint's water in October 2014 

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Data will be used to study ways to minimize racial profiling 

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Republicans opposed the increase and voted against the proposal  

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In this Feb 12, 2015 file photo made from video and released by WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge, Albert Woodfox walks into a courthouse in Louisiana. Woodfox, the last inmate of a group known as the "Angola Three" has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and a lesser offense in the 1972 death of a prison guard and is expected to be released Friday after more than four decades in prison. (WBRZ-TV via AP, File) 

Albert Woodfox consistently maintained his innocence in the killing of guard Brent Miller 

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Mary Peveto, founder of Neighbors for Clean Air, says arsenic and chromium discharged into the air are among an array of cancer-causing poisons in the air that have been watched in North Portland for more than a decade without any meaningful action by state regulators. Photo courtesy of Intel Free Press (CC BY-SA2.0) via Flickr. 

Mary Peveto, founder of Neighbors for Clean Air, says communities of color disproportionately affected 

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National activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi spoke at Portland State Tuesday. Photo by Christen McCurdy.  

Scheduled Black Lives Matter speakers give stage to student activist to address campus issues 

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Tyrone Poole, creator of NoAppFee 

The service seeks to streamline the housing application process

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SPLC Founder Morris Dees. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.  

Year in Hate report tallies number of active hate groups at 892, up from 784 in 2014 

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