Muhammad Ali Jr. Says His Dad Would Have Hated The Black Lives Matter Protests

Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement

In the article below, Syracuse University historian Herbert Ruffin explores the rapid rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement as the most recent development in the ongoing struggle for racial and social justice in the United

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African-American studies

African-American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans. Taken broadly, the field studies not only the cultures of people of African descent in the United States, but the cultures of the entire African diaspora

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Rep Maxine Waters reveals her sister died of COVID-19 at nursing home

California Rep Maxine Waters' sister died from coronavirus at a Missouri nursing home where staffers have staged protests against poor

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Racism in the United States

Racism in the United States has been present since the colonial era. Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white Americans but denied to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic and Latino Americans. European Americans (particularly the

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Race and Color in A California Coastal Community: The Seaside Story

In the following article Dr. Carol Lynn McKibben, Director of the Seaside History Project, City of Seaside, California, and Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University, describes the subject of her research, Seaside, California, and specifically the unusual history of the African American

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Emotional Video Shows 90-Year-Old Grandmother Fall Trying to Shield Grandson from Police After Traffic Stop: He's Scared!

The video shows an emotional faceoff on May 16 in Midland, Texas, between a Black family and a group of police officers with their guns pointed at a young Black

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(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity

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If there were a vaccine to protect against covid-19, would you get it? (Part 1)

Black people are trapped between a rock and a hard place when it comes to medical

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Fired Louisiana Cop Says It’s ‘Unfortunate’ That All Black People Weren’t Killed By Coronavirus

Kaplan Police Officer Steven Aucoin was fired following an investigation for allegedly suggesting that it was “unfortunate” that the coronavirus pandemic had not killed off black people, officials

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Al Mohler, Southern Baptist leader, says he was ‘stupid’ to defend slavery in 1998 CNN interview

(RNS) — In December of 2018, Albert Mohler, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, released a report detailing and denouncing the school’s legacy “in the horrifying realities of American slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racism, and even the avowal of white racial

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More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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AC Green on Saving Homes and What to Avoid with Banks During COVID-19

In December 2008, AC launched his radio show during the height of the recession while everyone was losing their homes and

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Nelly ‘Verzuz’ Ludacris battle mishap convinces Twitter women do it better

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A. Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph[1] (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political

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What Was Apartheid in South Africa?

Apartheid is an Afrikaans word that means separation. It is the name given to the particular racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the twentieth

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1960

Nottingham Riots (1958)

On the 23rd of August 1958, the country’s “forgotten” race riot unfolded on the streets of Nottingham, England. This culmination of simmering tension, sparked finally over opposition to interracial romance, was a pre-cursor to the mass violence that followed a week later in the London

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You Must Understand: Know your place???

Because two white men were seemingly looking for a kill and another innocent black man was, unfortunately, going to unknowingly cross their paths at “their” right time for

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St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church was the first church built in Roxbury by Black people. Serving as a haven for immigrants from the West Indian islands in the early 1900s, St. Cyprian's was established in 1913. The cornerstone of its present building on Tremont Street was laid in 1923 and the church

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Blacks face greater risk from COVID-19, health experts say

Taylor, an internist, called those conditions — diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory diseases — “a part of the community fabric” among black residents of South Los

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African America’s First Protest Meeting: Black Philadelphians Reject the American Colonization Society Plans for Their Resettlem

In the following account historian William L. Katz revisits an essay he first wrote in 1968 as the introduction to the reprinted volume of William Lloyd Garrison’s Thoughts on African Colonization which was first published in 1832. In the article below he describes the first mass protest meeting at

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Former Owners of Channel 7

WNEV-TV (now WHDH-TV, Channel 7) in Boston was the first major television station in the country to have Black people as majority owners when, between 1981 and 1986, Bertram Lee, Ruth Batson, Thomas Brown, Henry Hampton, Joyce Fredkin, Melvin Miller, and Barron Martin were major stockholders.

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Marjorie Joyner--patent for hair wave machine

Patent for a permanent wave machine which could

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1928

Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000)

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, born June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, moved to Chicago, Illinois where she was reared and launched her literary career. Marrying Henry Blakely in 1939, the couple had two

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2000

Organization of Afro-American Unity

The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was modeled on the Organisation of African Unity, which had impressed Malcolm X during his visit to Africa in April and May 1964. The purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the

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Black people

Black man and Black woman redirect here. For the novel, see Black Man. For other uses, see Black

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Black Fatherhood Advocate Pens Children's Books That Help Parents Discuss Ahmaud Arbery Case

Author CEO Kenneth Braswell wrote these books understanding that cases like Ahmaud Arbery highlight racial trauma for Black parents and

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What I Just Learned About Black People In Early American History Blew My Mind

A friend just sent me a video that changed my view on American

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Left of Black with Monica R. Miller

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal and Monica R. Miller discuss the Black Lives Matter movement from a variety of angles- religion, hip hop and

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Entrepreneur of 35 Years Releases New Book, "Black Financial Literacy & Wealth Building Bible"

Sacramento, CA — David Fontaine, who has worked for 35 years as an entrepreneur and real estate investor, has released a new book entitled The Black Financial Literacy Wealth Building

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Hundreds Demand Justice for Ahmaud Arbery at Georgia Rally

— Justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, isn’t just prison time for his killers — it’s changes in a local justice system that never charged them with a crime, rallygoers said

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