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A demonstration held Wednesday night in Tel Aviv in favor of deporting Africans in Israel turned into a frenzied mob. Twelve people were arrested for committing acts of violence and vandalism against Africans. Israel has tens of thousands of African nationals from Darfur and Eritrea. Over the last month, reports have filled the Israeli papers of suspicions that the Africans are responsible for a string of violent crimes, and rapes, though actual evidence only incriminates them in a handful of circumstances.

Wes Anderson directs a 1960s-set fable of young love about two kids who run away into the New England wilderness. (Recommended)

Harold Jackson was a pioneer of black radio. He was the first major African American play-by-play sports announcer, hosted numerous radio shows in New York City and co-founded Inner City Broadcasting. Jackson died Wednesday at the age of 96.

West Philadelphia, a predominantly African-American section of the city is about as solidly a part of Obama country as Romney could visit. So you'd expect not to find many if any Romney supporters there. But not having heard of him at all. For political junkies, that's hard to fathom. Yet, there it is.

Host Jessica Harris speaks with Kevin Ryan, founder of Alley Corporation, a network of internet companies including Gilt Groupe, 10gen, and the Business Insider. Harris also speaks with Fred Swaniker, co-founder of the African Leadership Academy.

Paul Maassen and Dr. Ed Chervenak, Director of the UNO Survey Research Center, discuss the state of our vital civic institutions in the years since…

The Pentagon repudiated the smear campaign saying they are "intolerable."

Charges could be filed in the case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared from his New York neighborhood in 1979. Pedro Hernandez, who was a bodega clerk when Patz disappeared, has been arrested. Audie Cornish talks to Bob Hennelly of member station WNYC.

Dozens of federal mine safety inspectors descended into 43 coal mines in three Appalachian states Wednesday. The mines are now owned by Alpha Natural Resources, which absorbed Massey Energy after a 2010 mine disaster in West Virginia.

Would you watch a feline dating flick that's "Pretty Woman" meets "Cat-Women of the Moon"? In this game, host Ophira Eisenberg puts contestants in an imaginary Hollywood pitch meeting, where they have to figure out the titles for hybrid movie plots.