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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Accountability and action during the COVID-19 pandemic

The racial disparity data for Pinellas County paints a bleak picture: Blacks are 3.85 times (2.37 times in Hillsborough County), more likely to be COVID-19 positive than

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

Social Media Criticize Democrats For Wearing Kente Cloth at Press Conference – Your Black World

In the process of announcing a new way to addressing police brutality, Democrats took a moment of silence, while wearing the kente cloth, to honor George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by

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Source: Your Black World

Henry Richardson: Key Figure in Amending the State Constitution to Integrate the National Guard

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Source: Black Then

The African-American Press Timeline: 1827 to 1895

The African-American Press has been a powerful vehicle in fighting social and racial injustice since its inception in

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Source: ThoughtCo

‘Morale Is Low’: Cops Wallow In Self-Pity As The Country Demands Better Policing That’s Not Racist

The movement to defund police combined with the overall sentiment that sweeping change is needed for all of law enforcement has apparently left cops with some issues of self-confidence and apparent self-pity over their uncertain

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Source: NewsOne

African-American Men and Women of the Progressive Era

Despite the presence of Jim Crow Era laws and politics, African-Americans attempted to reach achieve equality by creating organizations that would help them lobby few anti-lynching legislation and achieve prosperity. Here are several African-American men and women who worked to change life for

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Source: ThoughtCo

Attorney General Hill given 30-day suspension | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Attorney General Curtis Hill, who made history as the state’s first African-American Attorney General following his election in 2016, had been facing allegations of inappropriately touching multiple women at a party celebrating the end of the legislative session in March

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Antilynching Bill

67th Congress, 2nd Session, Report No. 837

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Source: Black Past

Fort Gadsen: Known as the "Negro Fort"

Fort Gadsen: Known as the “Negro

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Source: Black Then

Ellis: Mental Health, Police Brutality and Black People

A 2017 Pew poll asked police officers if the high-profile police killings of black people were isolated incidents or part of a more systemic

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Source: The Birmingham Times

'Candyman' Director Nia DaCosta Releases Chilling New Teaser

As if the forthcoming Candyman could get any scarier, director Nia DaCosta just shared a chilling new teaser that reveals the killer’s origin

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

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Pays Homage To Breonna Taylor On Her Birthday – Your Black World

On Friday, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunited to honor Breonna Taylor, one of the many blacks killed by police

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Source: Your Black World

EFF condemns George Floyd's 'ruthless murder and police violence against African-Americans' - Ghanamma.com

Cape Town – The Economic Freedom Fighters are saddened by the ruthless murder of George Floyd by racist police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the party said on

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Source: News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines - Ghanamma.com

In Search of Justice

The country is again at a racial boiling point, as the recent killing of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers have set off a firestorm of protests across the nation including New Orleans and the World where people are crying for

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

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

Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment | New York Carib News

Paul, who has been holding up popular bipartisan legislation to make lynching a federal crime, came to the Senate floor in Washington to add an amendment to the anti-lynching legislation and then pass

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Source: The New York Carib News

What lies in store for Raila, Kalonzo, Moi

With the 2018 truce between President Uhuru Kenyatta and rival Mr Raila Odinga providing a strong political foundation, talks to create a broader unity pact with various parties and leaders

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Juneteenth: Celebrating and Still Fighting | Afro

The celebration of Juneteenth comes during a revolutionary time in America, where hundreds of thousands protestors are emphasizing the importance of Black Lives and fighting for equity and tree

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove. Her parents were former slaves working as sharecroppers and both died when Sarah was a child. As a result, Sarah was forced to move from one household to another. At age seven, she

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Source: Black History Resources

Africa: America Is Better Than This - So Act As If It Is!

One hundred years ago or even later, a black man could be picked up by a group of white men in some states in the United States, accused on the spot with any crime that the white mob thought appropriate, and hanged to death on the nearest

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Source: allAfrica.com

America’s ugly history

On May 31, 1921, whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma utterly destroyed the black section of the city that was known as

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Source: The Bay State Banner

400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

Justice Ginsburg words are a rally call for African Americans today, “All I ask is that our brethren take their feet off our

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Source: The Florida Star

Video Shows NYPD Cop Choking Black Man Weeks After Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act Is Passed

Source: Twitter / Twitter

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Source: The Urban Daily

(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and

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Source: Black Past

HOSTS ROUND TABLE TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM •

For 75 years EBONY and JET have been the authoritative voice highlighting the injustices of Black Americans from featuring the open casket of the lynching of 14-year old Emmett Till, to the footage of the brutality against nonviolent protesters during the Civil Rights Movement to the need for bail

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Source: https://www.ebony.com

Mayor Of Kansas City, Mo., Wants To Eliminate Marijuana Offenses

Mayor Quinton Lucas talks to demonstrators during a rally in Kansas City, Mo., on June 5, to protest the death of George

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Source: Stories About Black History

Black Churches’ Census Sunday

These crises will be forever linked in the annals of history not just because they collided in time but also just as the cruel murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police finally tore open the gapping cruelty of police in this nation toward its African-American citizens, COVID-19 laid

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

Rand Paul’s Indifference to Lynching Seen In His Continued Delay of Vital Legislation

Statement of Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

10 Elected Officials Of Color Send Letter To Mayor Durkan And Chief Best

On Mon., U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and nine city, county and state elected officials of color who represent the Seattle community sent a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best that urged them to enact meaningful and transformative changes to the very nature of

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

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