Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District

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Countless Industries Are Being Called Out For Their Racism And Adult Film Has Been No Exception - Blavity

Feature stories from Playboy, Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast are deep dives into the way racism affects Black women performers in the porn

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Olympia, Washington activists at George Floyd protest chant ‘All cops are bastards!’

OLYMPIA, Washington—Protesters who marched Tuesday in Olympia, Washington remained peaceful but made their feelings about law enforcement plain, chanting on the steps of the state capitol that Americans who wear law-enforcement badges are

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Source: South Florida Times

Protesters brutalized across the nation; slave trader statue...

A Dallas police oversight board reported that it has had over 100 calls from residents complaining about police brutalizing protesters and reporting injuries as a result of police firing non-lethal but obviously harmful

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Montclair ‘Permit Karen’ calls police on Black neighbor for assault

(Credit: screenshot) There is yet another white woman to add to the “Karens Gone Wild” saga as one in Montclair, New Jersey called the cops on her Black neighbor for assault. READ MORE: Washington Post editor says white women are ‘lucky’ they are just being called Karen Fareed Nasso

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Two Liberty University Football Players Leave School Over Race Issues Days After Female Basketball Player Exits

One week after Asia Todd said she was leaving Liberty University and its women’s basketball team over “racial insensitivities, a pair of Liberty football players is making a similar

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John McWhorter, “Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans”

It is a mantra among black Americans that we are insufficiently aware of our history, that our advancement will be hobbled until we are all rooted in a sense of continuity with the past. Yet, every year we are regaled with not just a Black History Day but a Black History Month. Over four weeks in

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Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama

In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, describes her ongoing research on the Birmingham (Alabama) World and its longtime editor, Emory O. Jackson. Mangun is writing a cultural biography of Jackson and the

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Man Seen Walking His Dog In KKK Hood and Robe – Your Black World

A man suspected to be a Klansman was spotted in rural Wisconsin walking with his dog dressed in a KKK hood and

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Source: Your Black World

Hugo Black

Hugo Black , in full Hugo La Fayette Black (born February 27, 1886, Harlan, Clay county, Alabama, U.S.—died September 25, 1971, Bethesda, Maryland), lawyer, politician, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937–71). Black’s legacy as a Supreme Court justice derives from

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A Demonstration Led by NAACP

NAACP led protest demonstrations against the showing of the movie Birth of

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The Original Karens: From Emmett Till’s Accuser To The White Woman Who Sparked The Tulsa Massacre

Over the weekend, #KarensGoneWild trended on social media with jaw-dropping videos of frantic white women attacking Black women, toddlers, teenagers and grown Black

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'They Threw Rocks at Us': Porsha Williams Reveals Terrifying Experience with the KKK

The 38-year-old reality star of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is the granddaughter of civil rights leader and activist Hosea

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Ku Klux Klan received charter from Fulton County,

Ku Klux Klan received charter from Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court. Modern Klan spread to Alabama and other Southern state and reached height of its influence in the twenties. By 1924 the organization was strong in Oklahoma, Indiana, California, Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio. At the height of its

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Dec

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1915

Mississippi Official: Black People 'Dependent' Since Slavery

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After rejecting a proposal to move a Confederate monument, a white elected official in Mississippi said this week that African Americans “became dependent” during slavery and as a result, have had a harder time “assimilating” into American life than other mistreated

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June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers Was Assassinated

In the early morning, just hours after President John F. Kennedy’s speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP

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Wisconsin man spotted walking his dog in KKK robe, hood

A distressing photo emerged online over the weekend showing a man wearing a KKK hood and robe while walking his dog in rural

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

Radio Talk Show Co-Host Ken Gordon Survived Heartbreak, Deception and Politics

Being called to provide leadership and a voice is nothing new for Ken Gordon, co-host of the “Commitments with Ken + Leslie” radio talk show, along with his

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Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence 155 years after rebellious Southern states lost a war to perpetuate

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

Known White Supremacist Stephen Miller Rumored To Be Writing Trump Speech On Race Relations

Stephen Miller is many things—Trump’s senior adviser, a far-right conservative, an anti-immigrationist and known White

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Black Women Launching Digital Green Book For Black Travelers | Afro

DENVER-AREA WOMEN LAUNCH DIGITAL GREEN BOOK CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT SAFE, WELCOMING BUSINESS AND TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK AMERICANS

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1960 to 1964

This civil rights movement timeline chronicles important dates during the struggles second chapter, the early 1960s. While the fight for racial equality began in the 1950s, the non-violent techniques the movement embraced began to pay off during the following decade. Civil rights activists and

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KKK member behind 1963 bombing of 16th St Baptist Church dies

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Charles Bolden

Charles Bolden , in full Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. (born August 19, 1946, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.), American astronaut who served as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from

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Virginia man who drove truck into protesters is a KKK leader

(Credit: Henrico County Division of

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Civil Rights Timeline

The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey , in full Marcus Moziah Garvey (born August 17, 1887, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica—died June 10, 1940, London, England), charismatic black leader who organized the first important American black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York

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Allen University [South Carolina] (1870 - )

Allen University, a Christian liberal arts institution located on a 20-acre campus in Columbia, South Carolina, is the oldest historically black college in the state. The school was founded in 1870 by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church of South Carolina, and was originally located in

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Detroit race riot of 1943

The Detroit race riot of 1943 took place in Detroit, Michigan, of the United States, from the evening of June 20 through the early morning of June 22. The race riot was ultimately suppressed by the use of 6,000 federal troops. It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social

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Ida B’s Pulitzer was late but right on time –

Exactly 136 to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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