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As a youth growing up in Lynchburg, Va., I was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s which fostered many of the civil rights gains we have today as a result of mass demonstrations, protest marches, and finally, economic
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Sheriff's office: St. Helena Island man missing, endangered - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is asking the public to be on the lookout for a man considered missing and endangered.
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Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate the New York City Fire Department
In the following article Ginger Adams Otis, a staff writer at the New York Daily News and a longtime city reporter, describes her more-than-decade-long research following the evolution of a landmark civil rights case brought by the Vulcan Society, a determined group of activist black New York City
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Two Biden Priorities, Climate and Inequality, Meet on Black-Owned Farms
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NAACP launches #WeAreDoneDying Campaign to take action against killings of African Americans
Washington, D.C. – The NAACP has launched its #WeAreDoneDying campaign, aimed at exposing the inequities embedded into the American health care system and the country at
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Amid Racial Reckoning, Grammys Honor The Black Experience - Voice and Viewpoint
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Clarence E. “Big House” Gaines
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The Commitment March for 2020: Get your knee off our necks | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Marc H. Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“And so this march must go beyond this historic moment. We must support the strong. We must give courage to the timid. We must remind the indifferent, … Continued
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How The Death Of The Office Building Can Unlevel The Playing Field For Black Professionals - Blavity
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A Black woman is going to the White House and we're about to act a fool : TheGrio
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(1948) Henry A. Wallace, “Radio Address”
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