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In the heyday of America's Old West, roughly a fourth of the cowboys were black. But today, the world of professional bull riding, a sport rooted in ranching culture, is predominantly white.

Every year hundreds of thousands of people are dying from snakebites and there’s a global shortage of the one thing that could save them - anti-venom. While a single snakebite can turn most people into a corpse in less than 30 minutes, Steve Ludwin can survive due to 30 years of injecting snake venom.

In February 2018, a small church in Pennsylvania gained international attention when they held a blessing ceremony with AR-15's just two weeks after the Parkland School shooting triggered mass gun reform debates across the US.

Een paar jaar geleden verscheen de nieuwe synthetische drug 'flakka' in Florida. Het internet raakte al snel overspoeld door sensationalistische nieuwsberichten en YouTube-video's over dit fenomeen, waarin de effecten van flakka werden vergeleken met het gedrag van zombies.

In oktober 2018 kwamen honderden jonge republikeinen van kleur samen in Washington D.C. Ze gingen naar de allereerste Young Black Leadership Summit, een vierdaagse conferentie waarbij onder andere actrice Stacey Dash en politiek activist Candace Owens kwamen spreken.

Luke smuggled cocaine into the U.S. to pay off his student loans. He got caught when a cocaine pellet he swallowed broke in his stomach. We spoke to a doctor with experience in what happens when a cocaine pellet ruptures internally.

Along the Texas-Mexico border a group of citizens, with the help of grassroot organizations, WITNESS, and the ACLU, are given the tools and empowerment to film interactions and arrests by Border Patrol and ICE upon the residents of their community.

Quintin “Q Nhannaz” Walters is ready to stop running. As a young kid, growing up in the spotlight of his parents — the late Buffy the Human Beatbox from The Fat Boys and rapper Queen Pen, featured artist on the classic song “No Diggity” — he left his home in New York to start new roots in California.