President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act

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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"

The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates a dozen states. Among the delegates were young, rising leaders in the African American community including Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Charles B. Ray and Charles L. Remond. Twenty-seven

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Source: Black Past

Ice Cube Cancels ‘Good Morning America’ Appearance After George Floyd Murder

Source: Marcus Ingram / Getty

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Source: The Urban Daily

1967 Clifford McKissick murder shows how little things have changed

Police officers involved in the incident said they saw McKissick and other young people lighting gasoline- filled bottles and throwing them into a paint

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

Stokes, Carl B. (1927-1996)

Carl B. Stokes, lawyer, anchorman, U.S. diplomat and the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, was born on June 21, 1927 to Charles and Louise Stokes in

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21

1927

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS

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Jul

28

1967

D.C. Mayor Calls Trump's Comments About 'Vicious Dogs' An 'Attack On Black America'

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Saturday she was “shaken” by President Donald Trump’s threat about unleashing “vicious dogs” on people protesting the death of George Floyd, saying it called up associations of segregationist

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Dr. Mary Canty Merrill: An Ode To My Ancestors Gone Before Me – Your Black World

AN ODE TO MY ANCESTORS GONE BEFORE ME

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Source: Your Black World

Tedx Speaker Dena Crowder Offers 3-Minute Guide On Our Mental Health and Well-Being During the Pandemic (WATCH)

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S., and in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are finding our mental well-being challenged in unexpected, extraordinary

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

D.C. Farmers Allege Well-Known Marketplace Repeatedly Denied Spots To Black Vendors

D.C. Farmers Allege Well-Known Marketplace Repeatedly Denied Spots To Black via @dcpuddin/Instagram

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Ruth M. Batson Educational Foundation

The Ruth M. Batson Educational Foundation was established in 1969 'to help improve the quality of education and to expand educational opportunities for those who have been relegated to a disadvantaged category because of discrimination.' In its first 20 years the Foundation made over 160 grants

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Sunken Place Soldier Candace Owens Forgets Her Hair Is 4C, Calls Black People “Chimpanzees” For Riots

According to published reports, on Thursday (May 28) Candace Owens took to YouTube to live stream and discuss the current events going on across the country involving Black America’s reaction to there continued police brutality that has plagued the country for

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Source: The Urban Daily

Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba on bossing up with season 2 of 'LA's Finest'

READ MORE: Gabrielle Union speaks out about discrimination, toxic work environment at

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Gratz et al v. Bollinger et al (2003)

No. 02-516. Argued April 1, 2003--Decided June 23, 2003

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Daniel W. Snare speak out, 'Silence is no longer acceptable'

Floyd’s murder sparked peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country, demonstrations that, in Minneapolis and a few other places, turned toward

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

African Nations Call for Racism Debate At UN Human Rights Council

A letter signed by all 54 African nations requested the UN Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and police violence as protests over George Floyd's death grow around the

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7 Orgs Advocating For Black Trans Lives That You Can Donate To Right Now - Blavity

Black transgender women in particular have been targeted by these heinous crimes, which have continued on into

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Out of Control riots

Forty-three persons killed in rebellion in Detroit. Federal troops were called out for the first time since the Detroit riot of 1943 to quell the largest racial rebellion in a U.S. city in the twentieth century. More than two thousand persons were injured and some five thousand were

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Jul

23

1967

Dallas awarded $50,000 to preserve civil rights history | Dallas Weekly

Dallas awarded $50,000 to preserve civil rights history

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Stop Pandering to the Leftists’ Systemic Racism “Big Lie”

Here in the United States of America, ANTIFA is demanding that white America literally kneel in worship to Black Lives Matter, an evil false

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Fort Lawton (Seattle) “Riot” and POW Lynching, 1944

On August 14, 1944, African American soldiers “rioted” against Italian prisoners of war at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, an Army staging area for combat in the Pacific. American officers and POWs under their guard were severely beaten. The next morning one of the POWs, Guglielmo Olivotto, was

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14

1944

Atlanta Is Home to 2 Potential Contenders for Biden’s VP

ATLANTA (AP) — Neither public rivals nor personal friends, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Stacey Abrams spent years climbing parallel ladders at Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia

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Source: Black America Web

How Black history is taught in schools faces new scrutiny

The state’s new standards are going out to schools as a national conversation on racial injustice brings new scrutiny to how African American history is taught

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

(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”

By 1963 Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace had emerged as the leading opponent to the growing civil rights movement. Six months later he gained international notoriety for his stand in the door of the University of Alabama to block the entrance of two black students, Vivian Malone and James

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14

1963

Black Tulsans are not amused by rally plans | Dallas Weekly

(AP Photo/Greenwood Cultural Center via Tulsa

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William H. Hastie

William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigned to protest segregation and discrimination in armed forces.

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Jan

5

1943

Esper opposes using Insurrection Act for law enforcement

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday he opposes use of the Insurrection Act, which would allow President Donald Trump to use active-duty military forces for law enforcement duties in containing street

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

MASON: The Roots of White Supremacy

It depicts a battle between rival gangs of poor white people — native-born Americans versus Irish immigrants — in the notorious Manhattan slum of Five

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Source: The Washington Informer

Statement from Council Member Adam Bazaldua | Dallas Weekly

Not about the property damage or the anger that is spilling out through riots across our country, but because this is what it seems to take to get a reaction from our society, from the status

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Opinion: 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. | Post News Group

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

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