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‘It’s Not Going To Close The Weather Gap’: Bob Johnson on the Removal of Confederate Landmarks

During his appearance, the media maven zeroed on the topic of people taking down Confederate statues and other racist monuments, calling them “borderline

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Summer Reading Contest Winner Week 1: On ‘I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.’

Winner

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Source: Unpublished Black History

'Thicka Than Peanut Buttah': Ashanti Busts Out in Green Two-Piece Fit, Fans Swoon Over Her Physique

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Second Great Migration (African American)

In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West. It began in 1940, through World War II, and lasted until 1970.[1] It was much larger and of

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Juneteenth, Not July 4th: Ways to Celebrate it this Year

I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass

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Source: Chicago Defender

Phi Beta Sigma

FoundedJanuary 9, 1914; 103 years ago

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Doley, Harold, Jr (1947- )

Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr is the founder of Doley Securities, LLC, the oldest African American owned investment banking firm in the nation. Doley is the only African American to have owned a seat on the New York Stock

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Source: Black Past

Nike Makes Juneteenth An Annual Paid Holiday

In an internal memo, Nike has revealed that it will be recognizing Juneteenth as an annual paid

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Source: The Urban Daily

Civil rights movements

Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations they have been characterized by nonviolent protests, or have taken the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change

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The Myth of the Buffalo Soldiers

Nineteenth Century African American soldiers who served in the Western United States have generally been known a “Buffalo Soldiers.” In this article, however, military historian Frank N. Schubert, challenges modern popular perceptions of the soldiers, among them the significance of

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Br'er Rabbit

Brer Rabbit /ˈ b r ɛər/ (Brother Rabbit), also spelled Brer Rabbit or Brer Rabbit or Bruh Rabbit, is a central figure as Uncle Remus tells stories of the Southern United States. Brer Rabbit is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social

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Africa: Protests Lead Brands to Speak Out Against Racism. but Will They Act?

Major brands taking to social media to condemn racial inequalities have been challenged to back up their words with action to tackle a lack of black leadership in many firms and entrenched racial pay gaps in the United

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Source: allAfrica.com

The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

One of the most terrifying examples erupted more than a century ago, when white supremacist soldiers and police helped hunt down and kill at least 60 Black men in Wilmington in

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Source: TIME

Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States

In the following article Dr. Clarence Spigner, Professor of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes the life of the first patient to die of Ebola on U.S. soil and the larger crisis of Ebola in West Africa. He views it as a consequence of a long history of

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Source: Black Past

#Election2020 – The South is red. It's also Black | The Atlanta Voice

His rally is a stick in the eye not only of people concerned about coronavirus, but also to Oklahoma’s Black

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Tulsa police major under review after controversial comments on 'shooting African-Americans'

Tulsa Police Department Maj. Travis Yates made the controversial remarks during an appearance earlier this week on “The Pat Campbell Show,” a local

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Floyd murder unleashes Black parents’ worst fears

Her tears, she said, are for the senseless, callous murder of another innocent unarmed Black person, for the constant terror that African-Americans live under because of police brutality and extra-judicial murders; and a deep and persistent anxiety about her

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'Too Many Black Families Don't Know How to Swim': Fans Praise Ciara for Daughter Sienna's Aquatic Skills

Continuing the Wilson tradition of breaking down stereotypes that surround Black families, Ciara took to social media to show off her daughter’s budding skills as a water

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

The Civil Rights Act of 1968, (Pub.L. 90–284, 82 Stat. 73, enacted April 11, 1968), also known as the Fair Housing Act, is a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin and made it a federal crime

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Tory Lanez Helps Make Father’s Day Extra Special for 100 Black Fathers

The rapper recently helped 100 Black former inmates celebrate their first Father’s Day with their families since being

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Black Characters Should Be Played By Black People: Jenny Slate And Kristen Bell Step Down From Voicing Black Girls On Their Respective Series

And that’s what actresses Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have done, stepping down from their voice over work for animated characters of

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TGR COMMENTARY: Every Department is a Police Department

Almost every day you turn on your radio or television set, local broadcast stations and national news will gather their hand-picked colored commentators to explain to angry protestors why a few bad apple officers are making other law enforcers look really

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

White, George Henry (1852-1918)

George H. White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901) from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District during what historian Rayford Logan has termed the nadir in race relations for the post-Reconstruction South. Born in

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Book Excerpt #2: "The Roots of Racism in American Policing" | Black Star News

The following is from the

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Black with a Capital “B”: Mainstream Media Join Black Press in Upper-casing Race

Last week, Norman Pearlstine, the editor of the LA Times, sent a memo to staffers announcing that the publication will begin capitalizing “B” in the word Black in its articles when referring to a race of

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

California Assembly voted to pass ACA 5

(CBM) – The California State Assembly HAS voted to pass ACA

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois

Throughout his career as a sociologist, historian, educator, and sociopolitical activist, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois argued for immediate racial equality for African-Americans. His emergence as an African-American leader paralleled the rise of Jim Crow laws of the South and the

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Dred Scott Timeline

In 1857, just a few years before the Emancipation Proclamation, a slave named Samuel Dred Scott lost a fight for his

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A Brief History of Ghana Since Independence

Date of Independence: March 6,1957

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Social Justice

This weekend took me back to December 2015, when my former student, Quintonio LeGrier, was killed on his front porch by a Chicago Police Officer who stated he reacted out of

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