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The teenager is accused of killing two people and injuring another during demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was left paralyzed.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t doubt for a moment that we still have race issues to address in America. And I don’t believe that, to date, we have fully overcome the legacy of hundreds of years of slavery and segregation in our history. At the same time, I do not accept former President Obama’s claim

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(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”

Schoolteacher, dentist, physician, lawyer, graduate of the American Medical College in Philadelphia, member of the Massachusetts bar, proficient in Greek and Latin, Dr. John S. Rock was unequivocally one of the most distinguished African American leaders to emerge in the United States during the

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Newswire : Black households earned 61 cents for every dollar of White median incomes; Police violence linked to segregated housing

By Charlene Crowell, Senior Fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending The August 23 police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, WI, triggered yet another round of community protests and national news coverage of a Black man. A series of multiple gunshots fired by a local police

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Left of Black with Blair LM Kelley

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Blair LM Kelley to give advice to young, upcoming Black public intellectuals. Kelley is the Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs and an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State

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Sinde, Yalonda (1963- )

Yalonda Sinde was born in Seattle Washington to working-class parents. Her father was a steward with Amtrak for many years and her late mother was a hairdresser. She is the oldest of three sisters. Sinde’s father inspired much of her activism. “Watching what my father endured as a black

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Virtual HBCU Commencement Celebrates 2020 Grads

More than a dozen Black luminaries joined in a virtual celebration Saturday afternoon to honor the 2020 graduates from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) whose commencement ceremonies were affected by the coronavirus

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Republican Talking Head Compares Obama HBCU Speech To 'Political Drive-By Shooting'

Republican Talking Head Compares Obama HBCU Speech To ‘Political Drive-By Barack Obama delivers remarks during the commencement ceremony at Morehouse College (Official White House Photo by Pete

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(1963) Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots”

On December 10, 1963, while still the leading spokesman for the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X gave a speech at a rally in Detroit, Michigan. That speech outlined his basic black nationalist philosophy and established him as a major critic of the civil rights movement. The speech appears

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1963

Father And Son Charged With Murder In Ahmaud Arbery Killing Are Denied Bond : NPR

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Black Man to Sue Arizona City for $2.5 Million After an Officer Who Should Have Been Looking for White Suspect Held Him at Gunpoint

On Wednesday, a Black man held at gunpoint by an Arizona officer last month filed a $2.5 million claim against the city of Tempe. The claim is a precursor

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Patrick Francis Healy, Pres. of Georetown Univer.

Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., first Black man to recieve a PhD, inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in America, and became the first Black to head a predominantly white university.

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1874

Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

Fannie Lou Hamer, called the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, led the way with organizing ability, music, and stories, helping to win the right to vote for African Americans in the

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‘Oh brother, where art thou?’ Black Trump supporter speaks | Afram News

Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, a Black man from the Deep South, delivered a speech in support of President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention. His appearance, and what he said, was criticized by many Black Americans. Jones wrote an op-ed for CNN explaining why he chose to leave

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Scatman Crothers, the veteran of show business who was first black featured on Los Angeles TV

Even when Scatman Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1985, he continued to work on television; the cancer eventually spread to his esophagus and killed him on November 22, 1986 in Van

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Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of a Moor (1520-1530)

In the following account University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the famous 16th Century painting of a black courtier at the court of Margaret of Austria, the Duchess of Savoy and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. The name and rank of this courtier remains

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Events leading to

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Jacob Blake Speaks Out From His Hospital Bed: 'It Hurts To Breathe' - Blavity

Jacob Blake's attorney posts a message from the 29-year-old in which he asks for community unity.

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Black Civil War guerilla chief

Probably the Souths most noted guerilla chief was a Black man named

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1861

(1841) Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice"

Frederick Douglass would eventually become one of the most skilled and powerful orators of his day. In 1841, three years after he escaped slavery and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34-year-old Douglass gave a brief speech on a situation he had not anticipated, racial prejudice in Northern

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Abele, Julian F. (1881-1950)

The legacy of architect Julian Francis Abele was brought into focus in the mid-1980s when in the midst of a student protest at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, his great grandniece reminded the campus community that her long unsung ancestor was responsible for the eleven original

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1881

Black Households Earned 61 Cents for Every Dollar of White Median Incomes

“Racial residential segregation is a significant predictor of the magnitude of the Black-White disparity in fatal police shootings at the city level. Efforts to ameliorate the problem of fatal police violence must move beyond the individual level and consider the interaction between law enforcement

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The General Virginia Court decides the "Emmanuel" case, which involves a black

The General Virginia Court decides the Emmanuel case, which involves a black man who, along with sixwhite servants participates in a conspiracy to escape;when captured, the whites are all sentenced to extrayears of service while Emmanuel is whipped, brandedwith an R, and required to wear shackles

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'Why do you hate so much?' - Black man questions white woman who called him N-Word - Face2Face Africa

The power play in America allows white people to call the police on their black counterparts to cower them, which in several instances have led to police brutality and death without much consequence to the officers. Another episode played out in San Bernardino County, California when a white woman

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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress

In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close a thirty two year period when nearly forty Southern African Americans sat in Congress, White used

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OPINION: Black Men Must Cast Their Votes, The Stakes Are Just Too High

Risking a Trump White House again can’t happen

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George Floyd, Whose Death Energized a Movement, Laid To Rest

HOUSTON (AP) — George Floyd was lovingly remembered Tuesday as Big Floyd — a “gentle giant,” a father and brother, athlete and mentor, and now a force for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial

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Kenosha shooter's mother tries to deflect blame from her son - Black News Channel

By Associated Press Undefined ANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) — The mother of an Illinois 17-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of two men during a protest in Wisconsin said neither her son nor the protesters should have been on the street that night and put much of the blame for what happened on police and

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Newswire : Police kill yet another Black man as people cast final votes Nov. 3

By Hazel Trice Edney TriceEdneyWire.com) - As President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden campaign in key states in final days of the 2020 presidential race, yet another Black man was shot and killed by police Monday afternoon, Oct. 26.The Philadelphia police shooting of 27-year-old

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Black Scotts

The ancestry of teh British people we know today as the Scotch can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, who used to visit

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770

Former Wisconsin Police Chief To Review Jacob Blake Shooting

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's attorney general announced Monday that he has selected a former Madison police chief to serve as an independent consultant for prosecutors weighing whether to file charges against the officer who shot Jacob Blake, a Black man who was left paralyzed from the waist

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