Nick Cannon Fired From ViacomCBS After Backlash Over Anti-Semitic Remarks

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Nick Cannon Fired From ViacomCBS After Backlash Over Anti-Semitic Remarks

The TV host declined to apologize.

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Spelman sisters surprise Morehouse grad with visit from Army dad

The Jones family from left to right) Frances, Alexis, Terrell, Jr., Amber and Terrel, Sr. via YouTube

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Pros and Cons of COVID-19 Testing

According to information on the CDC website, “Two kinds of tests are available for COVID-19: viral tests and antibody

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Cicely Tyson Quotes on Life, Acting and More

Cicely Tyson, a stage and film actress, is known for roles in such projects as Roots, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Sounder (which won her an Oscar nomination), Fried Green Tomatoes, The Help, King (in which she played Coretta Scott King), A Woman Called Moses (where she played Harriet

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(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation"

W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of his life was a staunch integrationist. In 1934 however he advanced the argument that since integration would not happen in the nation any time soon, African Americans had to

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1934

(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress

In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close a thirty two year period when nearly forty Southern African Americans sat in Congress, White used

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(1843) Samuel H. Davis, “We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause”

The National Convention of Colored Citizens which met in Buffalo, New York from August 15 to 19, 1843 is best remembered as the venue for the speech by Rev. Henry Highland Garnet calling on the slaves to “throw off their chains.” However the chair of the convention, Samuel H. Davis of

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The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda

Instead, it was my discovery that many similar racists questions, posed by equally obnoxious White provocateurs could be found in the website’s dark alleys and

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‘It Was a Modern-Day Lynching’: Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy – Free Press of Jacksonville

From 1877 to 1950, more than 4,400 black men, women, and children were lynched by white mobs, according to the Equal Justice

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

Race riot, East St. Louis, Illinois. Estimates of number killed ranged from forty to two hundred. Martial law was declared. A congressional investigating committee said, It is not possible to give accurately the number of dead. At least thirty-nine Negroes and eight white people were killed

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(1994) Sister Souljah, “We Are At War"

In 1993 Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson), a Bronx-born rapper, earned national notoriety thanks ironically to then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton who denounced her comments about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots as “hate driven and racist.” Sister Souljah responded with her own

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Jamie Foxx defends Jimmy Fallon after ‘SNL’ blackface sketch resurfaces

Jimmy Fallon has been facing the heat this week after an old clip of him doing blackface during a Saturday Night Live episode resurfaced on social

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American Policing Has Always Been About Enforcing White Supremacy

The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American policing and police brutality, have been called on a lot since mass protests sprang up nationwide in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and

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Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was a black-American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, as well as his own son, Warith Deen

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National

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A tearful Lizzo speaks out about protests and the fight against racism

Lizzo broke down into floods of tears as she vented about “the real story not being told fully” amid the protests against

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The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King

April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and

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1968

5 Unforgettable Slave Rebellions

One of the ways that enslaved African-Americans resisted their oppression was through rebellions. According to historian Herbert Apthekers text American Negro Slave Revolts an estimated 250 slave revolts, uprisings and conspiracies have been

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Guest Editorial: Decisions to reopen will be evaluated at the polls

Those who feel most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus disease—COVID-19 —are moving with extreme caution, while others are ignoring social distancing guidelines and protesting mask-less for business to reopen as

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Senior advisor to Houston mayor, Keith Wade, dies due to COVID-19

HOUSTON — Keith Wade, the special advisor to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, died Thursday evening due to COVD-19, officials

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#BlackAndBrownGetDown Community Defense Fund Gives $100,000 to Black and Brown New Orleanians Affected by COVID-19

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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Abolitionism in the United States

Not to be confused with Prohibition in the United

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History of African Americans in Detroit

In 2002, within the city of Detroit there were 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of the population.[1] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people.[2] Southfield had a black population

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Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the familys eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earls civil

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OP-ED: A Warning to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party About Black Voters | Afro

There is one profound truth this coming November – the Democratic Party knows it needs the support of black voters to win the 2020 presidential

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Black Twitter Slams Candace Owens For Defending White Woman Who Called Cops on Black Man

Candace Owens embarked on Twitter to chastise people who expressed outrage after Amy Cooper–in a video that went viral–called 911 and falsely reported “an African American man threatening” her and her dog in Central

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Wendy Williams Takes a Break from Her Show to Deal with Symptoms from Graves' Disease

Viewers of “The Wendy Williams Show” will have to watch repeats of the show for the foreseeable future, as Williams is taking a hiatus as a result of fatigue caused by

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We shouldn't try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate

Seven prominent Black women activists have made a strong case, and a bit of stir, in a Washington Post Op-Ed, “Biden Still Needs Black

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AMANDA EDWARDS ENDORSES ROYCE WEST

Endorsement Caps Off Three-Week Period That Includes Endorsements from Major Unions, Congressional Black Caucus PAC

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Attorney General Keith Ellison Charges Remaining Three Ex-Officers In George Floyd Murder Case

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison charged three former Minneapolis police officers Wednesday in connection with the death of George Floyd in their

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L.A. Police Protective League Statement on Death of George Floyd

Los Angeles, CA—The Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League issued the following statement regarding the death of George Floyd in

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