Black Codes enacted

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(1841) Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice"

Frederick Douglass would eventually become one of the most skilled and powerful orators of his day. In 1841, three years after he escaped slavery and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34-year-old Douglass gave a brief speech on a situation he had not anticipated, racial prejudice in Northern

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Camille Cosby Speaks Out After Pennsylvania Court Grants Appeal For Bill Cosby (Video) | The Oklahoma Eagle

Mrs. Cosby slammed the Me Too movement, and defended her

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What I Just Learned About Black People In Early American History Blew My Mind

A friend just sent me a video that changed my view on American

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Free negro

In United States history, a free negro or free black was the legal status, in the geographic area of the United States, of blacks who were not

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Juneteenth 2020: In This Land of the Free, How Free Are We?

Even the very Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 had little meaning to many Blacks who were omitted from the order and left in bondage in the very states fighting on the side of the Union to supposedly free them, as only those in the slave holding

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Emagine Entertainment To Host Juneteenth Film Festival To Benefit UNCF

Emagine Entertainment, Inc., an innovator in luxury theatres, proudly announces the Juneteenth Film Festival to benefit the UNCF (United Negro College

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Opinion | I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.

The only colors that penetrate those dark memories are the blue and red lights of police vehicles parked on every other street corner, swirling all night

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Tomorrow Is National CROWN Day, AKA, Black Hair Independence Day

July 3 marks the one-year anniversary of The CROWN Act and as such, The CROWN Coalition, a national alliance founded by Dove, the National Urban League, the Western Center on Law & Poverty, and Color Of Change has declared July 3, 2020, National CROWN Day, also known as Black Hair

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The ‘Mis-education of the Negro’ remains in full effect today | Afram News

destroyed Blacks for generations. Enough is enough! And for anyone who is in favor of placing the Confederate statue in HMAAC, I feel you need to read the "Mis-Education of the Negro," by Carter G. Woodson. If you did, you would see just how many of us are still trapped in a slave mentality.

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African Americans Must Begin To Turn To Their Root – Prince Mackay - Ghanamma.com

will begin to respect African Americans.” He detailed that African Americans must realize and Africa is their home. “Until Black Americans begin to realise, appreciate, respect acknowledge the contributions of the Black American race to the development of

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Coronavirus, Which Already Hit African Americans The Hardest, Also Eliminated Black Job Gains

Recently released statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor now show that the pandemic has wiped out major employment gains and curtailed years of economic growth for Black people in America, The Wall Street Journal

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Hulus Removal Of A Golden Girls Episode With Blackface Gets Widely Panned

Black writers criticized the decision to scrap a 1988 show featuring two characters in mud masks as "counterproductive" and "stupid."

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‘What to the African American is the Fourth of July?’ Reflections on race and racism in America. - African American News Today - EIN News

similar question: What to the African American is the Fourth of July home. So what to the African American is the Fourth of July Minneapolis to stop? Stop killing black Americans. Radley Balko: There’s overwhelming

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Timeline 1800-1859: African American History and Women

[Previous] [Next] • Ohio Constitution adopted, outlawing slavery and prohibiting free blacks from voting • James Callendar accused Thomas Jefferson of keeping as his concubine, one of his own slaves -- Sally Hemings. The accusation was first published in the Richmond Recorder. • (February 11) Lydia

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'Unfortunate COVID-19 didn't wipe out blacks' – Louisiana cop fired for racist Facebook post

A white Louisiana police officer, who in a racist Facebook post, said it is “unfortunate” the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t wiped out black people in the United States has been

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Systemic racism exist even during a pandemic

Moreover, the majority of essential workers seems to be minorities working in the food service and delivery fields, warehouse workers, health care aides in nursing homes and assisted living centers, etc. many of the which didn’t necessarily choose to work, but had to work in order to take care of

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America must not fail black Americans again

The murder of George Floyd on the streets of Minnesota in 2020, is still the problem of the color

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Source: South Florida Times

More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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Black Americans Still Wary of Clinical Trials | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

Yet, studies show Black Americans continue to distrust medical research and clinical trials, apparently a lasting legacy of the infamous Tuskegee experiment which was shut down more than three decades

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#FIYAH! — LIVESTREAM 6.19.20 1PM ET — DEFENDING BLACK WALL STREET "THE MOVIE…"

Black businesses clustered on a strip of land that would become Greenwood in

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As U.S. Reckons With Racial Justice, Name Changes Planned for Uncle Ben’s Rice, Aunt Jemima Pancakes

Hours after PepsiCo announced that it would retire the name and logo of its Aunt Jemima pancake syrup and mix brand, acknowledging that it was based on a racial stereotype, Mars, Inc., the parent company for Uncle Ben’s rice, said it was “evolving” its visual identity in an effort to address racial

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White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher In Central Park Has Been Fired | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

A black man says he asked a white woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash. Then video shows her calling police and telling emergency operators that the man was threatening her and her dog. The woman, who has been identified as Amy Cooper, has apologized.

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Source: Florida Sentinel Bulletin

'Black Ink Crew: Chicago' Star Phor Brumfield Causes an Uproar After He Compares Black-on-Black Crime to BLM Movement

“Black Ink Crew: Chicago” actor Phor Brumfield is currently facing backlash for his recent remarks about the Black Lives Matter

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When Non-Black Minorities Adopt Black Style, Is It Still Appropriation? | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.huffpost.com By Bianca Lambert The answer is simple: Absolutely. We’ve seen a wealth of celebrities including Miley Cyrus and the Kardashians appropriating Black culture, plus countless fashion designers sending white models down their runways wearing locs, braids and baby hairs. But what

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

This is part six, the final section of the award winning documentary, When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

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PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

George Floyd’s death turned a tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional and systemic racism, into a bon fire of protest raging across America and the

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Source: The Florida Star

Black Lives Matter President: “If U.S. doesn’t give us what we want then we will burn down this system”

Black Lives Matter president of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, joined a discussion on The Story to discuss the direction of the movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police

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Black Blues Singer Responds To Lawsuit From Country Band Lady Antebellum: ‘I’ve Been Quiet For Two Weeks’ - Blavity

Update (July 10, 2020):

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Source: Blavity News

Black Lives Matter Founder Finds Hope in Global Protests Over George Floyd's Alleged Murder

For Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza the global outpouring of protests and activism following the alleged murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody has been heartening and makes her hopeful for the

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