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When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter decided to get married in June 1958, laws banning interracial marriage had been in effect for nearly three centuries.  The colonies of Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts had banned intermarriage in 1664, 1691, and 1705.  After the American Revolution, states
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12
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Bearing Witness to Injustice: From Ron Settles to George Floyd, Nothing’s Changed
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Black Power movement
The Black Power movement was a political movement to achieve a form of Black Power and the many philosophies it contains. The movement saw various forms of activism some violent and some peaceful, all hoping to achieve black empowerment. The Black Power movement also represented socialist
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Jada Pinkett Smith’s Career Proves Success Isn’t A Straight And Narrow Path
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Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society
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A Short History of African-American Folk Music
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Monday Night Politics
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From Finland to “Not in My Neighborhood”: Antero Pietila's Journey To and Through Racially Divided America
In the article below Antero Pietila, longtime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, describes his arrival as a Finnish immigrant in the United States as the nation was being convulsed by the Civil Rights Movement.  Pietila describes his initial introduction into the nations racial dilemma through Harlem
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DeSantis Really Doesn’t Want Ex-Felons to Vote. It’s Not Because So Many Are Black, Is It? – Free Press of Jacksonville
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From Peaceful Protesting to a President Posing | Afro
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How Your Actions May Be Unintentionally Racist
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Minneapolis Holds Memorial For George Floyd As Family, Friends Mourn A Life Cut Short
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"There's a Lot Left to Be Done." | New York Carib News
February is Black History Month – and Black people just made a whole lot of history.  Joe Biden is our president and Donald Trump is not because Black organizers and voters decided that they would not be denied their right as American citizens to be heard at the ballot box.  Kamala Harris is our
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Spinning Constructive Disruption
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Black Hebrew Israelites
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day.  King, in Memphis to support a strike by garbage workers, gives a poignant vision of the victorious future of the
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