The black community in Greenwood, Miss., is on edge and angry after the death of Frederick Jermaine Carter (pictured) who was 26 years old and found hanging from a tree in what authorities have labeled to be a suicide.

The theory that minorities exaggerate the hardships they face in the modern world has become a rather prevalent one in recent years, and it stems from people not understanding the full impact that racism has had on our society through the decades and centuries.

For millions of Americans, racism is still undeniably a serious social dilemma in the United States. It has been slowly suppressed in the past few decades, but not vanquished; racism still exists in this country and abroad, and its impacts are felt by people each and every day.

"People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare – an honest politician. Sagbo last month became the first black to be elected to office in Russia.

Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.