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Article: What Shall We Call It? - There was no coup. American democracy worked as designed: it took the progressive energies unleashed in opposition to the Trump administration and entirely neutered them with the orderly election of the avuncular Joseph Biden, protector of the Empire, the military industrial complex, banking and finance..

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(1886) Lucy Parsons, “I am An Anarchist”

Lucy E. Parsons was a leading figure in American anarchism and the radical labor movement. Born a slave near Waco, Texas, she married Albert R. Parsons who had become a white radical Republican after serving first as a Confederate soldier. In 1873 Albert and Lucy to move to Chicago in 1873 where

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Source: Black Past

Dec

21

1886

Black Woman Curses White People Having ‘Brick To Throw’ Amid Criticism Of ‘Ally’ Protestors

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Netflix’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Tells Black Vietnam Veterans’ Stories the Way Only Spike Lee Can – Free Press of Jacksonville

In Netflix’s “Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee takes his audience on a journey across the decades, putting a spotlight on the Black veteran experience in a way few filmmakers ever

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Africa: Walter Rodney and 2020 Africa

With his magnus opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, published in 1972, Rodney told the development story of Africa in a way that bears resonance to the African condition

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Drew Brees Stands Against Trump: Racial Justice Protests 'Not About The American Flag'

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees urged President Donald Trump on Friday night to stop describing NFL players’ silent actions during the national anthem as disrespect for the U.S. flag as he walked back his own comments earlier this week about patriotism and

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt W. E. B. Du Bois (/d uː ˈ b ɔɪ z/ doo-BOYZ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and

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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”

? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu

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2016

Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again

Small businesses exhaust their reserves and are forced to lay off the team of workers they have

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

50 Years After MLK, Pastors Lead A New Poor People's March

Organizers of Saturday’s online assembly have deliberately modeled it after King’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign ― echoing not just his title but also his

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(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”

On March 2, 1807 Congress enacted a law that banned the external slave trade beginning January 1, 1808. With that act enslaved persons could no longer be brought to the United States. Although the law would be frequently violated until the eve of the Civil War, many black and white anti-slavery

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Source: Black Past

South Africa: COVID-19, the Working Class and the Poor in South Africa

The Covid-19 pandemic is threatening previously cushioned sections of society with what poor and working class individuals and households have always lived through: struggle to access food, quality education and adequate

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As Wisconsin Sees COIVD-19 Cases Spike After Reopening, Retirement Income Strategies Provides Local Residents with Safe Options for Financial Services - Milwaukee Community Journal

As an essential business, the Madison-based financial firm offers both virtual and socially-distant in-person meetings amid pandemic July 07, 2020—Evansville, Wis. – Retirement Income Strategies, a Wisconsin-based financial planning firm with locations in Brookfield, Evansville, Madison and

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Larry Aubry, Lying Down Like a Hill: Still Having Height, Always Pointing Upward

To rightly remember and honor Larry Aubry is to recognize, appreciate and strive to emulate the long length and value-grounded variousness of his service for the Good, the depth of love for his people, and his uncompromising commitment to them and their struggle for liberation and racial and social

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Black conservatism

Black conservatism is a political and social philosophy rooted in communities of African descent that aligns largely with the conservative ideology around the world. Since the Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968), the African American community has often identified politically with liberals. Black

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The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People

For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, and needs to be

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Why I resigned: an Amazon VP resignation letter

May 1st was my last day as a vice president and distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

NFL QB: Drew Brees: 'I Will Never Agree With Anybody Disrespecting The Flag'

Brees’ comments about “disrespecting the flag” come days after Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn explained how Colin Kaepernick’s protest was

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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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Source: Black Past

Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972

THE BLACK AGENDA

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Western Sahara: President of Republic Chairs Meeting of Permanent Office of National Secretariat

Shaheed El-Hafed — President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, on Sunday chaired a meeting of the Permanent Office of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, dedicated to examining the latest developments in the national cause on various

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(1871) Congressman Robert C. DeLarge, “Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment”

Robert Carlos DeLarge served as a Republican member of the U.S. Congress less than a full term. He was elected in 1870 and began his term on March 4, 1871. However he left Congress on January 24, 1873 within two months of the completion of his term when the seat was declared vacant as the result of

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(1886) T. Thomas Fortune, “The Present Relations of Labor and Capitol”

In 1886, T. Thomas Fortune, born enslaved in Florida thirty years earlier, was already a newspaper owner and publisher in New York City and author of Black and White: Land, Labor and Politics in the Old South (1884), the first significant work to argue that class conflict rather than racial strife

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1886

(1869) Frederick Douglass Describes The "Composite Nation"

In an 1869 speech in Boston, Frederick Douglass challenged most social observers and politicians (including most African Americans) by advocating the acceptance of Chinese immigration. His argument is presented

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Malian PM reappointed by president amid mass protests

Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cisse has been reappointed to lead government business despite tendering his resignation letter to the

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The political and structural context of the police murder of...

Recent mobilizations of the Black community in reaction to the shooting deaths of unarmed Black men demonstrate that we can have an impact on the course of actions by officials of the criminal justice

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Hackley, Emma Azalia (1867-1922)

Emma Azalia Smith Hackley was an African American singer and Denver political activist born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1867. Her parents, business owners Henry and Corilla Smith, moved to Detroit where she attended Washington Normal School, graduating in 1886. Smith, a child prodigy learned to

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Dec

13

1922

Oprah Winfrey is a Leftist Trojan Horse.

Obviously, Oprah believes conservative “black thought” is not relevant because the entire panel for her discussion was black extreme

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Cry, the beloved Africa – a tale of two experiences

Cry, the beloved Africa – a tale of two experiences

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NFL On Kneeling Players' Protests: 'We Were Wrong' Commissioner Says

NFL On Kneeling Players' Protests: 'We Were Wrong' Commissioner Says

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(1983) Glenn Loury, “Responsibility and Race”

One of the great myths of our time is the belief in the great melting pot of American ethnicity, into which have been blended the cultures and values of disparate peoples from the world

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