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Nascar, A Circus With Clowns And All: Why Efforts To Destroy ‘Racism’ Are Destined To Fail Again And Again.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I am not a proponent of the idea that “history repeats itself,” I will admit that the recent rise in my white countrymen’s participation in the battle to defeat racism, America’s foremost social cancer, reminds me of a Civil Rights Movement era that I routinely address in
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Southern Company Gas donates $1 million to Morehouse School of Medicine for health equity
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Dr. Ernest Everett Just: The father of black scientists
Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr. Ernest Everett Just became one of the most prominent American biologists in the last century, specializing in marine
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Rift rocks PNP! - Party throws support behind Phillips as Bunting backers ignite political dynamite
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Media mogul Oliver Clarke dies at 75
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Providence St. Mel School Continues to "Find a Way or Make One" with 100 Percent of Graduates Accepted to Colleges and Universities.
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