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The GOP Left the Door Open for BLM.

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(1871) Senator Hiram Revels Calls For The End Of Segregated Schools

Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901) of Mississippi was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate when he filled the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis. Revels served just over a year from February 25, 1870, to March 13, 1871. During an 1871 Senate debate over school segregation in

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Trump can’t spin his years of broken promises to Georgians | Atlanta Daily World

ATLANTA — In response to reports that President Trump will be visiting Atlanta on Wednesday, Georgia Democratic Party Chair Nikema Williams released the following statement: “During the 2016 campaign, Trump assured voters that he would rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, but that turned out to be

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: She Fought Against Racism and Lynching

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, known for much of her public career as Ida B. Wells, was an anti-lynching activist, a muckraking journalist, a lecturer, and a militant activist for racial justice. She lived from July 16, 1862 to March

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5 Years After Its Debut, Hamilton Airs On Disney+ To A Nuanced Response

A whole new audience is debating the legacy of America's overlooked Founding Father.

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The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil

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(1964) Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”

By March 1964, Malcolm X had broken with the Nation of Islam. In the speech below, given on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, he explains his departure and his reason for establishing a separation between his religion and his politics. He also makes clear that those politics are still rooted in black

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A. Philip Randolph

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The Coca-Cola Bottling Company agreed to pump $34 million into Black businesses and the Black community, ending a national boycott called by PUSH.

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African Zion Baptist Church [Malden] (1852- )

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Pugh, Mary E. (1959- )

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Milwaukee Will Still Host Democratic National Convention

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(1880) P.B.S. Pinchback, “Campaign Speech for GOP Presidential Candidate James G. Garfield."

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Detroit Anti-Black Riot

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Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)

Jean Toomer was born into an elite black family in Washington, D.C. in 1894. Abandoned by his father as a newborn and losing his mother to appendicitis as a teenager, Toomer spent his formative years in the home of his grandparents, P.B.S. and Nina Pinchback. P.B.S. Pinchback served as a state

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Robert Johnson says Black Lives Matter should form a political party: We need a black party - Face2Face Africa

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