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Nov

15

1897

Georgia sandwich shop workers fired after making noose out of dough and mimicking a hanging - Face2Face Africa

Sandwich restaurant chain, Jimmy John’s, has fired four of its employees in Georgia after they filmed themselves with a noose made out of dough and mimicking a hanging. The video in question was first shared on Snapchat, CNN reports. In the video which was subsequently shared across other social

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

The class of 2020 marks Roosevelt’s last graduation | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The one-hour ceremony included comments from Roosevelt alumni who graduated from the school in various

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

House passes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Bill creates grants to fund community-based strategies proven to be successful at improving public safety, reducing violence

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

Lynching

Sixty-nine Blacks reported lynched in 1888.

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Nov

6

1888

Youth scream out, ‘We are not our ancestors!’

Did the little sister just accuse the ancestors of being cowards and wimps, fading and withering before

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

Barack Obama and Joe Biden Calls The George Floyd Family

Former President Barack Obama called Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, and offered his support and condolences shortly before Floyd’s memorial

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Source: The Black Chronicle

2020 Pulitzer Prize winners include many writers of color

There were a couple of firsts in this year’s announcement of the winners of the Pulitzer

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Yung Miami of the City Girls Says People Should Stop Bringing Up Black-on-Black Crime When Talking About Police Brutality

Black-on-black crime is often brought up when someone talks about a Black person dying at the hands of a police

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Lynchings

Twenty-nine Blacks were reported lynched in 1923.

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Jan

17

1923

(1900) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”

Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States. What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January

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Source: Black Past

‘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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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”

On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina. Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial

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Source: Black Past

Oct

20

1946

Ten Takeaways from the Anti-Police Brutality Protests.

About the Obama Department of Justice, in 2014, the left-of-center Politico wrote a piece called “A Lame Civil Rights Record”: “Indeed, a comprehensive review of all available records shows that the nature of the cases brought by the (civil rights) division has not differed much from the Bush

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Source: ThyBlackMan

FLOORED BY THE GEORGE FLOYD PHENOMENON | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Such was the case with George Floyd, a resident of Minneapolis, MN who, on Monday, May 25th, 2020, lost his life at the hands of a police officer in a manner that has ignited outrage across the

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Police reform was never going to be easy — but now is the time

Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the “qualified immunity” of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements and finally making lynching a hate

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

California’s Black Lawmakers Call for Converting Protest Momentum into Change

Ebone Monet, California Black Media

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

(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

The True Plight of African-Americans.

Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Ahmaud Arbery's death was 'lynching' and White House rhetoric emboldening racism, mayor says

Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has said that the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a “lynching” and that the White House’s rhetoric is emboldening racists in the

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Source: The Independent

Why is it so hard for America to outlaw lynching? - The Bay State Banner

The cast of Democratic and Republican Presidents stretching back over more than half-a-century all at one point in their administration were asked to throw White House weight behind a federal anti-lynching bill in Congress. All either flatly refused or

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Source: The Bay State Banner

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

Cage the ‘wolves’ Mr President

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent admission that there are ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ within the top echelons of his beleaguered government simply calls for an operation of caging them in order to abate further battering of our

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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

Curfew Lifted in Atlanta as Thousands Protest Across Georgia | Afro

ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of people across Georgia joined in dozens of protests for racial justice Saturday, from sometimes-festive events in downtown Atlanta, to a protest that drew hundreds in a once all-White north Georgia

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Lesotho: Lerotholi Student Raped, Murdered

While we condemn such barbaric deeds of rape and murder, we are also against mob justice and appeal to communities to report to the police instead of taking the law into their own

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Source: allAfrica.com

On Juneteenth: A Call for Tech to Act to Combat Racial Inequality

6:19-8:46: Jesse Jackson’s PUSHTech2020 and the UK-based Colorintech launches a call for the tech Industry to make transparent, measurable commitments to fighting systemic racial injustice”Jesse Jackson’s PUSHTech2020 and the UK-based Colorintech launches a call for the tech Industry to make

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

Schooled By Youtube: In Memory of Malcolm X….Unapologetic & Uncompromising

Schooled By Youtube: In Memory of Malcolm

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Source: Black Then

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil

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White people kneeling and praying for forgiveness in George Floyd's hometown is alright but we risk being hoodwinked

There have been videos of police killings involving unarmed blacks spanning males, females and even children but the brutal snuffing of life out of Floyd over an alleged counterfeit $20 bill ignited anger in the American people of various ethnic backgrounds not seen since the brutal

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