Blacks In Armed Services

Ghana’s Minister of Tourism to Black Americans: Come home to Africa

Ghana’s Minister of Tourism Barbara Oteng-Gyasi capitalized on America’s poor race relations, specifically the treatment of Black people, to recruit and nationalize African

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Virtual Town Hall Will Discuss The State of Black Music Today

Source: Tuwisha Rogers / Abigail Bazile

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Source: NewsOne

Our Health Our Community: Why Black Women Can’t Breathe •

Systemic racism is a public health crisis that tears at our nation’s fabric, limiting white America’s ability to see black men as something other than

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Source: https://www.ebony.com

Bitcoin Is Financial Freedom for Black America Part 1 | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The PPP prioritized the applications of their wealthier clients, mostly white, at the expense of Black business owners who don’t have existing banking

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Shelby County officially ill with the pandemic of racism

The measure, written by Commissioner Tami Sawyer, spells out that the purpose of declaring race a pandemic is to “unequivocally defend minorities and enact polices that eradicate the effects of systemic racism affecting Black people, and other minorities, throughout Shelby

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

House Democrats pass sweeping ‘George Floyd’ policing act

The House approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats Thursday, a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Travel Company Offers 100 Free Getaways to Black Activists

Getaway, the lodging company known for its tiny cabins situated in nature, is making the statement that rest is a form of resistance and is vital to the

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Juneteenth honors the memory of those who have lost their lives to racial violence

—General Order No. 3 as read by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Voters In Louisville Are Forced To Cast Their Ballots At The Only Polling Site In The City Of 600,000 People - Blavity

All eyes are on Kentucky during Tuesday's primary election as voters are being forced to cast their ballots at the only polling site in some

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Source: Blavity News

Former Florida Police Officer Arrested After Video Reveals Him Placing Knee on Pregnant Black Woman’s Neck and Using Taser

A former Florida police officer has been charged with battery and misconduct after a video surfaced showing him putting his knee on a Black

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Global Star Amara La Negra Vows to Stand Firm in the Fight for Racial Equality

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Justice for Joshua Johnson: Family, community want answers

The rash of national killings of unarmed Blacks has overshadowed a local tragedy, the killing of 35-year-old Joshua Johnson around 6 am on April 22, 2020 at the hands of Harris County Deputy Tu Tran, who has killed

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

‘Hidden Figures’ No More: NASA To Rename Headquarters For Mary W. Jackson

Mary W. Jackson was part of the small group of Black women mathematicians whose groundbreaking contributions to NASA helped push space exploration

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Source: NewsOne

The Man Who Wrote the Much-Recited Poem “If” Also Wrote One of the Most Racist Poems of All Time

While all of this is great, it turns out that British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, the writer of “IF” and the Jungle Book also wrote the famous poem “The White Man’s Burden” that just so happens to be one of the most racist poems you will ever

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Source: Watch The Yard

Black Catholics: Words Not Enough as Church Decries Racism

NEW YORK (AP) — Black Roman Catholics are hearing their church’s leaders calling for racial justice once again after the killing of George Floyd, but this time they’re demanding not just words but

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Source: Black America Web

My Father’s Day Story: Adapting To New Challenges Of Fatherhood

Written by Written by Alphonso Reyes as told to M.S. Sheffield

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

FBI Shrugs At Noose In Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR Garage, Says It Wasn’t New

The FBI released preliminary findings from its investigation into a noose found in the garage of NASCAR‘s highest-ranked Black driver, and it came across as the equivalent of a shrug of

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Source: NewsOne

Sister Of Riah Milton Decries Deadnaming By Police: Using The Right Pronouns 'Cost You Nothing' - Blavity

The grieving sister of Riah Milton, a 25-year-old Black, transgender woman killed in Ohio earlier this month, is speaking out against the deadnaming of her

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Source: Blavity News

Noose found in garage of black race car driver

(Reuters) – NASCAR has stepped up security around Bubba Wallace for the rain-delayed Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway yesterday after a noose was found in the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Why The Revolution Needs To Include The Black LGBTQ+ Community - Blavity

If Black people reconfigured their belief systems after centuries of brainwashing and manipulation, there’s no reason that our community can’t come together and see that Black trans communities are just as worthy and beautiful as the rest of the Black

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Source: Blavity News

A Viral Black-owned Business Success And The Shortcomings Of Federal Pandemic Response

That it took a crowd-sourced campaign to save their livelihood — as trillions of dollars were coursing through the economy through federal relief efforts — underscored a reality faced by many Black-owned small businesses through the current

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Queen Latifah, Viola Davis And More Demand Hollywood Divest From Police And Invest In Anti-Racist Content

The organization known as BLD PWR, which was founded by “Insecure” actor Kendrick Sampson, released their demands as part of a Hollywood 4 Black Lives campaign, and everyone from Queen Latifah to Viola Davis has signed

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Source: NewsOne

Community Members Question Seattle Public Schools’ Commitment To Equity And Inclusion

The first letter, drafted by Clyde Merriwether, a prominent member of the African American community, questions the lack of African American males in senior leadership roles and directly asks Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau, “What you are going to do about the near complete

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Former NASCAR Driver On The Confederate Flag: 'I Had To ... Accept It'

Bill Lester prepares for the start of the Chevy Silverado HD 250 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach on February

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Source: Stories About Black History

Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

A Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap

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Source: Stories About Black History

Black workers more likely to face retaliation for raising virus concerns –

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the

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Source: Daytona Times

Black Lives Matter demands police to be defunded by nearly $10 million

(Photo by David Ryder/Getty

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Source: theGrio

First Black Woman Major in the Women's Army Corps

Harriet M. West was the first Black woman major in the Womens Army Corps (WAC).

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