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Courts ended legal segregation long ago, but Jim Crow language remains preserved in Alabama's lengthy constitution.
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(1906) W.E.B. DuBois, “Men of Niagara”
In 1906, one year after the Niagara Movement was founded, it held its second annual meeting at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.  W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding member and its titular leader, gave the address below to the assembled civil rights
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Pay Black Women What They Are Worth - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… last year’s Black/African American Equal Pay Day Rally recognizing … caregivers with needs at home. African American women’s unique labor market …
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Brother Malcolm’s Message to “Sincere Whites”
Many people, Black and White, are slapping high fives and shouting Hallelujah over the sizeable number of Whites marching to protest the brutal lynching of George Floyd by a White police
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(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference
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(1963) Malcolm X, “Racial Separation”
On October 11, 1963, Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of black nationalism as promoted by the Nation of Islam and declared racial separatism as the best approach to the problems facing black America.  Most of that speech appears
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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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Kansas City Is Dumping Jaywalking Tickets Because They Mostly Go To Men And African Americans - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
In the past three years, Kansas City police issued more than 100 tickets for jaywalking. And far more citations went to men than women, and far more to Black people than whites. On Thursday, the Kansas City Council voted 10-0 to eliminate tickets and …
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“Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda” Will Turn Racism Upside Down | Post News Group
The Black RJ movement has a policy agenda that will hold law enforcement, politicians, corporations, voters and all people living in the U.S. to account. It is an expertly informed compendium of 25 issue areas, each with effective policy recommendations. We believe that the Agenda addresses the
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“You Was With The Boss & You Slept With The Help.” Tim Norman Responds To Jenae’s Claims Of Him Being An Absent Father and Abusive
Earlier this week, we wrote about former “Sweetie Pies” stars Ms. Robbie and Jenae Wallick going back and forth on social media about seeing the children from the years-long relationship Jenae shared with Ms. Robbie’s son, Tim
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Tired, Angry, Hurt, Disgusted: Protesters take to the street to fight police brutality
Soon it a was clear that a sizeable group of people were in attendance in front of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Downtown Greensboro to meet an impromptu call, slowly but surely, to
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1960
(1995) Louis Farrakhan, “A Million Men Marching On"
In 1995 Minister Louis Farrakhan was the leader of the Nation of Islam.  That year his organization became the driving force in the Million Man March, a call for African American men to come to Washington D.C. on October 17, 1995, in what was billed as “a day of atonement.”  Although
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George Floyds Murder Case Could Move To Whiter Part Of Minnesota, Judge Warns
Moving George Floyd's case out of Minneapolis could mean less diverse jury pools that are more sympathetic to police officers, thus increasing the chances of acquittals or mistrials.
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Report: Family incarceration negatively impacts mental health of Black women - DefenderNetwork.com
New Rice University research reveals that Black women’s mental health deteriorates when a family member is incarcerated. Nearly half of all Black women have a family member in prison — compared to 12% of white women. Black women who have at least one incarcerated family member are more likely to
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Megyn Kelly says BLM 'morphed into movement 'co-opted by activists' - TheGrio
Megyn Kelly offered an interesting opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement during a recent interview. Read More: Fox News... View Article The post Megyn Kelly says BLM 'morphed into movement 'co-opted by activists' appeared first on TheGrio.
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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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(1875) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Great Problem to be Solved”
After the Civil War Frances Ellen Watkins Harper worked among African Americans as a representative of the Womens Christian Temperance Union. From her new position Harper publicized the violence and intimidation in the South directed at the freedpeople. She argued African Americans must organize to
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The Original Karens: From Emmett Till’s Accuser To The White Woman Who Sparked The Tulsa Massacre
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Why Hasn’t Miya Ponsetta Been Arrested? Black Teen She Attacked Seeking Therapy
It's been well over a week since Miya "SoHo Karen" assaulted Keyon Harrold Jr. and his father in an undisputed incident caught on video. So why hasn't the NYPD arrested and charged her?
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Suspected White Supremacists Yelling N-Word Set Black Woman Driver On Fire In Wisconsin ‘Hate Crime’
A group of white men yelling racial slurs pulled up in a car next to a Black woman driver in Wisconsin, sprayed her with a flammable liquid and threw a lit lighter at her, engulfing her head and neck with
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Africa: Racism and Self-Hate - Why Africa Is Not Innocent
Just as it was an enabler of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, tribalism has also manifested in post-colonial Africa in the form of divisive, exclusionist, conflicting and destabilising politics of ethno-geographic identity, which has proven to be an anathema to the collective
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Terry Crews Dragged For Being Problematic Again: “Defeating White Supremacy Without White People Creates Black Supremacy
Just days after stating that he wanted to make amends with Black women, Terry Crews made comments about the dangers of so-called Black supremacy that left many perplexed and
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Status of His Dream Today
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people, mostly African Americans, gathered at the National Mall for The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They came to express their discontent with the persistent racism of the nation, particularly that of the southern states where Jim Crow laws
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When Natalie Baszile's publisher reached out to her about writing a companion book to the OWN series Queen Sugar, based on her 2014 novel by the same name, she decided
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A Tearful Lizzo Speaks Out About Protests and the Fight Against Racism | Afro
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Do You Get It Now? When Did Kneeling Become a Crime?
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