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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

These famous black celebrities are carriers and advocates for Sickle Cell Disease

June 19 has been earmarked as World Sickle Cell Day to create awareness, generate public understanding, and inform the society about the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Seven Things To Know About Juneteenth

UPDATED: 3:03 a.m. ET, June 19, 2020

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Source: NewsOne

The signs say Black Lives Matter. Yet the very people who are supposed to protect us too often, in too many places, don't seem to agree

Three police officers stood and watched as a fourth, Derek Chauvin, knelt on

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

‘More police officers are shot and killed by blacks than police officers kill African-Americans,’ claims former New York Mayor Giuliani

That’s former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani offering his perspective to Fox News on rising concerns that police disproportionately kill black

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

‘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: The Urban Daily

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

Lynching

Sixty Blacks were reported lynched in 1918.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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28

1918

Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)

James Weldon Johnson, composer, diplomat, social critic, and civil rights activist, was born of Bahamian immigrant parents in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17, 1871. Instilled with the value of education by his father, James, a waiter, and teacher-mother, Helen, Johnson excelled at the Stanton

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Source: Black Past

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17

1871

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

Lynchings

One hundred and thirteen Blacks were reported lynched in 1891.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

2

1891

COVID: The Unknown gives rise to ‘all kinds of fear and anxiety’

But Blacks are least likely seek mental health help

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Show Me The Money

They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida north of the St. John’s River and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families and other Blacks

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Source: The Florida Star

Floyd Murder Unleashes Black Parents’ Worst Fears

Her tears, she said, are for the senseless, callous murder of another innocent unarmed Black person, for the constant terror that African-Americans live under because of police brutality and extra-judicial murders; and a deep and persistent anxiety about her

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

New York Draft Riots

On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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13

1863

Trump expected to discuss race relations and police at Dallas church

President Donald Trump will participate in a roundtable discussion Thursday with faith leaders, law enforcement officials and small-business owners to discuss race relations and policing during a trip to Dallas, where he’ll later host a high-dollar fundraising

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

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

8 Of The Deadliest Race Riots Involving African Americans In U.S. History

The riot began with a fistfight between a white sailor and a black man who was thought to have insulted the

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Source: Black Then

PART 3: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

The tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional, and systemic racism, sparked a spontaneous bon fire of protesting in Atlanta with the killing of Rayshard

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Source: The Florida Star

Black Caucus teams with state to hold Juneteenth weekend COVID-19 testing

COVID-19 testing will be available at six Memphis sites on Saturday (June 20) in conjunction with the Juneteenth weekend and sponsored by the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators (TBCSL), the state Department of Health’s Office of Minority Health and Disparities

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

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

Lynchings in massive numbers

One hundred and one Blacks reported lynched in 1898.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

10

1898

Malcolm X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz says Donald Trump's reaction to BLM protests | New York Carib News

Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of civil rights activist, Malcolm X has said she believes President Donald Trump’s reaction to the Black Lives Matter protests has helped to shine a light on the racism that black people have had to endure for

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Source: The New York Carib News

(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

George Floyd’s Family Was Plagued With Racial Injustice For Decades – Your Black World

Angela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt, isn’t new

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Source: Your Black World

Christian Talk; Religious, Selfishness And Delusion.

So I had a choice – I could either follow the word of man and live my life honoring Mother Goose and trying to lie to God about believing in perfect nonsense in order to try to con my way into Heaven, or I could listen to the mind bestowed upon me by God himself, and walk away from the

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Source: ThyBlackMan

“Slavery Was A White Blessing” Says Atlanta Pastor

A pastor of a Megachurch in Atlanta is facing massive criticism from online users after referring to slavery as a divine gift for white

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Source: Your Black World

Lynching

Sixty-nine Blacks reported lynched in 1888.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

6

1888

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

Back to Terror of Lynchings Past?

Author and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a staunch crusader against lynching at the turn of the last century, would likely have been included among the hundreds of thousands of people calling for a thorough investigation into recent hanging deaths of two Black men in California and

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

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