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President Donald Trump is openly using “violent” Black people as a political tool to scare his conservative base leading up to the November mid-term elections. It’s a new low for Trump who always takes the low road. CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is correctly criticizing Trump for what he

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‘I Am Bullying Because I Just Told the Truth’: Tiffany Haddish Addresses Claims of Bullying and Spreading COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories on Clubhouse App

Throughout the pandemic, the coronavirus has made the world change its perspective on who could be affected by it and how it could be transmitted. It also

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

Trump Snaps 'So Are White People' When Asked Why Black People Are Killed By Cops

The president also told CBS News that people who "like the Confederate flag" are thinking about NASCAR, not slavery.

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Charles Barkley Says Politicians Want Blacks and Whites to Hate Each Other – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Terry Shropshire | April 4, 2021 | - (Source: rollingout.com) - Famously outspoken NBA legend Charles Barkley dropped explosive commentary during the March Madness telecast on Saturday, April 3, 2021. Prior to the airing of the [...]

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

3 Viral Videos Spark A Debate About Discrimination Black Men Face In Public Spaces

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Karen Attiah of The Washington Post and Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker about the discrimination black men face in public

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Source: Stories About Black History

When Non-Black Minorities Adopt Black Style, Is It Still Appropriation? | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.huffpost.com By Bianca Lambert The answer is simple: Absolutely. We’ve seen a wealth of celebrities including Miley Cyrus and the Kardashians appropriating Black culture, plus countless fashion designers sending white models down their runways wearing locs, braids and baby hairs. But what

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Cayton, Susie Revels (1870-1943)

Susie Sumner Revels, a daughter of Hiram Revels, the first U.S. Senator of African descent, arrived in Seattle, Washington from Mississippi in 1896. Her reason, she stated, during a 1936 Washington Pioneers Project interview, was the man she was going to marry was here. He was Horace Roscoe

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Source: Black Past

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1896

Black Wall Street - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” That quote from one of America’s most renowned Black authors and social commentators, James Baldwin, would be appropriate for hundreds of sinful scenarios perpetrated against African Americans during our

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

Black Lives Matter Founder Finds Hope in Global Protests Over George Floyd's Alleged Murder

For Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza the global outpouring of protests and activism following the alleged murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody has been heartening and makes her hopeful for the

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Source: The Florida Star

The Black Effect Podcast Network makes history by building its own - TSDMemphis.com

by Jay Conner - Much like the rest of the entertainment industry, despite all of the money and resources being thrown around, the wonderful world of podcasts is still very much a game of have and have nots – especially for Black creatives. Joe Budden’s exodus from Spotify highlights how Black

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

Prop. 16 Advocates Disappointed After Defeat — The Sacramento Observer

After voters shot down her attempt at repealing California’s ban on affirmative action this week, it would seem Assemblymember Dr. Shirley N. Weber will have to reload efforts to bring about greater balance. The Weber-backed ballot initiative, Prop. 16 would have reversed the 24-year reality of

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?

For proponents of capitalizing black, there are grammatical reasons — it refers to a specific group of people so it should be a proper noun, they say. But some see it as a moral issue as well. It confers a sense of power and respect to black people, who

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Source: Unpublished Black History

It's Time That We Have a Full Spectrum of Black Liberation • EBONY

DarnellL.Mooreis the author of 'No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America' and the host of 'Being Seen' podcast. Today, Black America is seeing a convergence of so many beautiful social and political movements. Though we have overcome much in the past few decades, we still have

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Source: https://www.ebony.com

Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19

“It doesn’t matter what color you are, how much money you have, how much education you have, things happen: grief, depression, anxiety, which COVID has really unleashed,” said F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Springboard Community Services, a regional full service behavioral health and case

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Detroit Anti-Black Riot

Whites began a riot in Detroit after it was rumored a black man had killed a white woman and her infant. A similar rumor, alleging the victims were white and the perpetrator white, soon found its way into the black community. In truth, no one had been killed. An estimated 25 blacks and 9 whites

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1943

3 North Carolina Cops Fired After Sergeant Comes Across Footage Of Them Talking About 'Slaughtering' Black People - Blavity

Three police officers in North Carolina were fired for comments about slaughtering Black people in a civil war.

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Black rappers ain’t Black leaders | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Michael Coard Kanye West said, “I like Trump.” He also said, “I love this guy [Trump].” In addition, he said, “When I put on this … [MAGA] hat, it made me feel like Superman.” And about a week ago, Trump’s senior adviser tweeted that Ice Cube, using his so-called “Contract With Black

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Black Lives Matter Activist Exposed As White Woman Pretending to be Black

A white Black Lives Matter activist in Indiana was exposed for posing as a Black woman, according to the IndyStar. After making a proclamation stating, “I have taken up space as…

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Former Employees At Smithsonian African Art Museum Accuse Leaders Of Racism, Say Curation Team Is Exclusively White - Blavity

Just five employees out of the museums 40-person staff are Black despite its focus on African art.

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Source: Blavity News

Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to the utmost to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the

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Source: Black Past

Bill Cosby’s wife slams #MeToo movement, says they should ‘clean up their act’ - Face2Face Africa

The wife of Bill Cosby, Camille Cosby, still has some animosity towards the #MeToo movement two years after her husband was convicted for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday in what was her first major interview in six years, Cosby slammed the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

(1834) William Whipper, “The Slavery of Intemperance”

? By the 1830s William Whipper was a successful Pennsylvania lumberman. He was also an abolitionist and temperance advocate. Whipper’s interest in temperance reflected a growing concern among African American leaders about the impact of alcohol on the free (and enslaved) African American popula

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Source: Black Past

Is Racism Responsible for Black Problems? – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Walter Williams - I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Newswire: Black unemployment was 16.7 percent in April

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the jobless rate for the blacks was 16.7 percent in April, a giant leap backward from 6.7 percent in March, as the Covid-19 pandemic caused nonfarm employment to fall by 20.5 million jobs last

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

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