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Portrait of Black Chicago

The captions are John Whites own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several images.

Black youths play basketball at Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project on Chicagos South Side. The complex has eight buildings with 1,633 two and three bedroom apartments housing 6,825 persons. They were built under the U.S. Housing Acts of 1949 and 1968. They are managed by the Chicago Housing Authority which is responsible for 41,500 public housing dwellings.

Black youths play basketball at Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project on Chicagos South Side. May 1973 (NWDNS-412-DA-13710)

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Byron R. White , in full Byron Raymond White (born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.—died April 15, 2002, Denver), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court

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Source: Brittanica

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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that's broadly condemned as

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Black Power movement

The Black Power movement was a political movement to achieve a form of Black Power and the many philosophies it contains. The movement saw various forms of activism some violent and some peaceful, all hoping to achieve black empowerment. The Black Power movement also represented socialist

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Source: ThoughtCo

Juneteenth 2020: In This Land of the Free, How Free Are We?

Even the very Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 had little meaning to many Blacks who were omitted from the order and left in bondage in the very states fighting on the side of the Union to supposedly free them, as only those in the slave holding

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

A tearful Lizzo speaks out about protests and the fight against racism

“There are people coming from the South, there are White supremacist terrorist groups coming from the South, patrolling the streets, shooting

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Source: The Florida Star

Will I Find Pride in 2020?

Health restrictions and violence against Black people has made it harder than ever to celebrate Pride this year

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Source: https://zora.medium.com

Bio of South African Leader Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

National Party Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination on 6 September 1966, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was the chief architect of Grand Apartheid, which called for the separation of races in South

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Source: ThoughtCo

White, Joseph Silvestre (1835–1918)

Composer and violinist Jose Silvestre White was born in Matansas, Cuba in 1835 to Don Carlos White and an Afro-Cuban mother. His father gave White his first instruction in violin, and he later studied with Jose Miguel Roman and Pedro Lecerff. In 1854, at eighteen, he gave his first concert

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Source: Black Past

Blood On The Leaves and Blood At The Roots | Afro

We should burn some incense, light some sage, and then do to White supremacy what White folks did to Black Wall Street and

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

The Black Crisis In The Midst Of The Coronavirus Crisis

Dr. Maulana Karenga, chair of the Department of Africana Studies at CSU Long Beach, wants the Black community to make sure that physical distancing during the pandemic does not interfere with relationships or establishing

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

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Capra, Frank The Negro Soldier 1943

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Source: Black Past

The Sword of The Black Press

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Source: The Florida Star

Single, childless and black

Society, especially African societies, are generally uneasy with the idea of adult men and women who, for whatever reason, never got married or have

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Floyd’s killers and people who share their beliefs don’t deserve benefit of the doubt –

The casual brutality of a White officer’s knee squeezing the life from a helpless Black man in handcuffs, caught on a gruesome video, underlies Amy Cooper’s smug tone as she announces her intention to lodge a false police complaint against a Black man who’d inconvenienced

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Source: Daytona Times

The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda

Instead, it was my discovery that many similar racists questions, posed by equally obnoxious White provocateurs could be found in the website’s dark alleys and

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

Let’s rename Army bases honoring Confederate officers –

As commander of the Army of the Mississippi, Braxton Bragg (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) was outmaneuvered in several campaigns; defeated Union forces at Chickamauga but was then routed by U.S. Grant in the battle of

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Source: Florida Courier

Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.[1] The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion

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D.C. protesters try to tear down Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Park

Protestors attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in

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Source: theGrio

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court

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Source: Black Past

'I’m Angry': Keri Hilson Claps Back at a Fan for Bashing Her Post About Racial Injustice

A serious topic that’s on the mind of many these days seemed to also be on Keri Hilson‘s mind on Wednesday, May 27, when Hilson posted a message to her Instagram

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

The Obama White House

West Wing Week 01/19/17 or, Obama, Farewell - Duration: 6 minutes, 12

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Source: Black Inventors

Vanessa Williams is Making a Difference with Thousands of Black Mayors

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Rayshard Brooks’ ‘Girlfriend’ Is Arrested As Suspect In Wendy’s Fire

Source: Twitter / Atlanta Fire Rescue

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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”

In the following article drawn from his book, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick introduces us to the world of philosopher William Fontaine, one of the few African American faculty members at an Ivy League

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Source: Black Past

OP-ED: We Can't Let This Moment Pass

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

White, George Henry (1852-1918)

George H. White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901) from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District during what historian Rayford Logan has termed the nadir in race relations for the post-Reconstruction South. Born in

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Source: Black Past

White People Becoming Minorities In America Sooner Than Expected, New Census Data Confirms

While it has already been reported that white people were edging toward living in a country in which they would not be the majority, new data shows that may happen a lot sooner than

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Source: Black America Web

History of the African-Americans in Philadelphia

This article documents the history of the African-Americans in

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Source: ThoughtCo

Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell admit Black voice actors matter – but that doesn’t solve the problem

Both of these white actresses have displayed a special kind of allyship that shouldn’t be discounted, but the argument from Slate that “Black characters on animated shows should be played by Black people” is the kind of short-sighted, emotionally driven response that’s allowed animation, and

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Source: theGrio

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