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An investigative look into China's "black jails" and how petitioners, breaking no Chinese laws, are being imprisoned, beaten or just plainly ignored when they bring their problems to Beijing.

Bar owners near the Workers' Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises.

An innovative approach to education for this Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Shandong Province where the female school uniforms consists of white shirt, miniskirt and black stockings.

From the story...

“Living here takes a decade off our lives,” sighs our taxi driver, looking into the black smog ahead. We are in the town of Gongwusu, where Ningxia province meets Inner Mongolia. The driver often takes motorway 108 or 109 to destinations on either side of the border. “Everywhere the sky is full of black fumes, like storm clouds. You can’t see the sun; even in the daytime you need to put your headlights on.”

Chinese petitioners trying to go to the Beijing central government to complain or seek help against local problems are kidnapped and locked away in mental hospitals and asylums by local governments who do not want to get in trouble.

The police cracked down on anyone who looked black on a popular bar street in Beijing over the weekend. Was this racism or incompetence?

One woman's battle with breast cancer in the Pearl River Delta

If you ever wondered what those guys riding around in black tinted VWs and Hondas did..now you know.

Here's a story from photojournalist Ryan Pyle in Shandong..

I wanted to see for myself what, if any protests were going to take place at my neighborhood Carrefour in Beijing. I noticed the added security, with uniformed police officers at each entrance. I also noticed in the parking lot, two officers in black with German Shepherds in tow (pictured).