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Black Women Cannot Be All Things To All People At All Times - Blavity

A viral video showed a Black woman being thrown into a dumpster on the night of June 15 by a group of Black men in Black Lives Matter attire — including two young DC rappers named Fat Rodney and Cruddy Murda — after spewing inappropriate comments at

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Peter Blair Henry

Peter Blair Henry is the youngest person to hold his current position and, to date, has raised over $200 million, more than any dean in the School’s history. Henry has focused fundraising on creating greater access to higher education by providing full scholarships for high-achieving, low-income

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Black market

Black Market and Black money redirect here. Market socialist

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Black Belt (U.S. region)

The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States. The term originally described the prairies and dark fertile soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi.[1] Because this area in the 19th century was historically developed for cotton plantations based on enslaved African-American

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Hampton Inn employee fired after calling police on Black family at pool

(Credit: Hampton by

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Racist Cop Says Public Scrutiny Caused Him To Say Police Are Going To ‘Slaughter’ Black People | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The cops were identified as Michael Kevin Piner, Jesse E. Moore II and James

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PRESS ROOM: TRU Conversations — A Blueprint to Be a Catalyst for Change by Promoting Truth, Understanding and Unity

TRU Colors, based in Wilmington, North Carolina, is providing a national platform for dialogue between the African American community and local law enforcement to change the narrative and promote understanding and

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Celebrating Juneteenth: A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation

Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images

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Convincing win in Virginia shows strength of Black vote | The Atlanta Voice

With the country gripped by a pandemic and racial unrest, Webb is a Black doctor and lawyer from Charlottesville who is the director of health policy and equity at the University of

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University of California Regents v. Bakke, 1978

? Argued October 12, 1977 Decided June 28, 1978 The Medical School of the University of California at Davis (hereinafter Davis) had two admissions programs for the entering class of 100 students - the regular admissions program and the special admissions program. Under the regular procedure, c

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Source: Black Past

Isaac Burrell: One of Roanoke, Virginia’s First Black Doctors

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Browder v. Gayle (1956)

June 5, 1956

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Zeta Phi Beta Just Awarded A $100,000 Scholarship To A Young Woman in North Carolina

The sorority sisters of Zeta Phi Beta do not play games when it comes to supporting the

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Kappa Alpha Psi Brothers at North Carolina A&T Just Donated $3,300 to Help Bail Out Activists in Greensboro - Watch The Yard

The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. at North Carolina AT are using their resources to help those speaking up about injustices in America. On Friday, the Alpha Nu Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi took to social media to announce that they were donating $3,300 to the Greensboro Bail Fund for

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(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I’m going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every

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Source: Black Past

Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History

In the following account University of Pittsburgh historian George Reid Andrews provides an introduction to the history of the population of African ancestry in

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Source: Black Past

1 In 10 HBCUs Were Financially Fragile Before COVID-19 Endangered All Colleges And Universities - Blavity

The Department of Education tracks which colleges and universities are most at risk of closure in its heightened cash monitoring

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North Carolina Central University (1910- )

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is a public, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Durham, North Carolina. The small urban campus is located 23 miles from Raleigh, North

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WSSU cancels Homecoming 2020 - WS Chronicle

Based on guidance from public health officials, feedback from alumni, and the university’s overriding concern for the health and wellbeing of the Ram Family, Winston-Salem State University has made the difficult decision to cancel its 2020 Homecoming

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Juneteenth celebration turns deadly as 2 killed, 12 injured in Charlotte

READ MORE: NYPD officer in ‘chokehold’ video had prior brutality case

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Andrea Harris, Black Economic Development Leader, Dies

The death of activist and Black economic development leader Andrea Lynette Harris, 72, last week, co-founder of the nonprofit N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development (aka “The Institute”) came as a shock to those who knew, loved and respected

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Eleven Years in the U.S. Navy: The Strange Saga of Robert Shorter

In the account below historian Lorraine McConaghy uses the story of black sailor Robert Shorter to indicate that while the Civil War freed nearly four million slaves, it also set in motion the status decline of antebellum African American

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(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity

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Three N.C. Police Officers Fired After Recordings of Racist Rants Found

Three police officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, were fired after a supervisor found recorded conversations including one officer saying he “can’t wait” to start “slaughtering” African

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin (/ˈ b aɪ ər d/; March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, where his family was involved in civil rights work. In 1936, he moved to Harlem, New York

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One-on-One with Jonathan Majors on Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods •

In February 2019, Majors received rave reviews for his performance in Joe Talbot’s THE LAST BLACK MAN STANDING following its premiere at the Sundance Film

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54th Massachusetts Infantry (1863-1865)

The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry was the first Northern black volunteer regiment enlisted to fight in the Civil War. Its accomplished combat record led to the general recruitment of African-Americans as soldiers. They ultimately comprised ten percent of Union Army and Navy. The

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Poor People's Campaign stages massive online demonstration

(Religion News Service) — With COVID-19 restrictions preventing an intended in-person rally in Washington D.C., at least a million supporters of the Poor People’s Campaign reportedly tuned in Saturday (June 20) to watch a mix of live speeches and pre-recorded clips of liberal religious leaders

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What to wear: Feds' mixed messages on masks sow confusion | The Atlanta Voice

But the messaging disconnect from Washington was evident as recently as Friday, when Vice President Mike Pence defended Trump’s decision to stage two big mask-scarce gatherings in the past week in states with big surges in infections and, in one case, local rules requiring

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COVID-19 Sees New Surge Among Young People

Health officials are taking note of a concerning new trend among coronavirus

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