Why Hasn’t Miya ‘SoHo Karen’ Ponsetta Been Arrested? Black Teen She Attacked Seeking Therapy
It's been well over a week since Miya "SoHo Karen" assaulted Keyon Harrold Jr. and his father in an undisputed incident caught on video. So why hasn't the NYPD arrested and charged her?
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Source: NewsOne
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) said white racism was the fundamental cause of the riots in American cities. The commission said America was moving toward two societies, one Black, one white, separate and unequal.
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BE Mental Health Week: Our Complete Mental Health Resource Guide
BLACK ENTERPRISE's Mental Health Awareness Week includes profiles, guides, and resources to fight the stigma of mental health within the Black community.
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White woman in Sacramento gets punched after calling Black woman the N-word - TheGrio
A woman in California learned the hard way that it doesnt pay to use racial slurs against Black people in public after she got punched in the face for hurling the N-word at a Black woman. READ MORE: Black male student group raises more than 50K for Black Lives Matter According to TMZ, the
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“Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America” by Michael Eric Dyson | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Raymond Ward, The New 411 c.2020, St. Martin’s Press $25.99 / $34.99 Canada 240 pages You’ve got mail. No, real mail, delivered by a carrier in a mailbox outside your door. It doesn’t happen very often and it’s rarer if there’s a letter in those envelopes because everybody you know texts or
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Netflix Series To Highlight Colin Kaepernick’s Coming Of Age Story
A series about activist and athlete Colin Kaepernick’s life is coming to Netflix.
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$290 Billion Would Be Created in Black Wealth if The Revenue Gap Between Black and White Businesses Was Equal
New report reveals that $290 billion would be created in Black wealth if the revenue gap between what Black and white businesses generate were equal.
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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent
Lawmakers Call Out The Higher Risk To People Of Color As States Reopen
Democratic Reps. Karen Bass (Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) are joining the many activists and journalists of color drawing attention to how states reopening businesses too soon amid the coronavirus pandemic are likely placing workers of color at disproportionate
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Why Hasn’t Miya ‘SoHo Karen’ Ponsetto Been Arrested? Black Teen She Attacked Seeking Therapy
It's been well over a week since Miya "SoHo Karen" Ponsetto assaulted Keyon Harrold Jr. and his father in an undisputed incident caught on video. So why hasn't the NYPD arrested and charged her?
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Source: NewsOne
Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick developing Netflix series on his high school years - TheGrio
Netflix has announced Colin in Black White, a new scripted six-part series created by Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay. The limited series will be narrated by Kaepernick and centers around his high school years as a Black child adopted into a white family. The project promises meaningful insight
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Source: theGrio
Images of Brutality Against Black People Spur Racial Trauma
(AP) – Since Wanda Johnson’s son was shot and killed by a police officer in Oakland, California, 11 years ago, she has watched video after video of similar encounters between Black people and
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
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'CAREN' Act: San Francisco Supervisors Unanimously Vote To Ban Racially Motivated 9-1-1 Calls
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to pass the Caution Against Racially and Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN)Act, which, if passed into law, would make it illegal for white people to
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White Jews should understand why Black Americans need reparations now - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that is owed” to Black Americans. Reparations are defined as S. government and non-Black Americans must engage in this stark difference between how Black Americans were treated on either line of thinking, all Black Americans should receive reparations. The
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How The Pandemic Affected the African Americans and Healthcare Industry. - ThyBlackMan.com
However, with racial disparities, African Americans have to face a different battle apart from the coronavirus.  The post How The Pandemic Affected the African Americans and Healthcare Industry. appeared first on ThyBlackMan.com.
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The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans
One of the most terrifying examples erupted more than a century ago, when white supremacist soldiers and police helped hunt down and kill at least 60 Black men in Wilmington in
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Source: TIME
White Elderly Woman Asks Black Man to Wait Until She’s Done Shopping To Rob the Store- The Man Was Just Shopping
An elderly white woman assumed a black man going about his shopping wanted to
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Source: Your Black World
Poet Amanda Gorman Was Racially Profiled And ‘Tailed’ During Her Walk Home
The relationship between racial profiling and the Black community, though unfortunate, as always existed and can happen to almost anyone. From singer Leona Lewis’ account with a racist shop owner
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We Are Fed Up With Fighting A Pandemic Amid A Pandemic - Blavity
On Friday, police arrested Omar Jimenez, a Black CNN reporter, for doing his job before they arrested the officers who killed George
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Actor Nathan Davis Jr. sues United Airlines for $10M for racial profiling - TheGrio
Nathan Davis Jr. from Marvel’s Runaways and Snowfall filed a lawsuit this week alleging he was kicked off an airplane last December after a flight attendant falsely accused him of possessing a gun, in what the actor believes was a racially motivated incident. READ MORE: Jada Pinkett Smith denies
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Stand up for righteousness sake
Dr. G. Gregg Murray, senior pastor of Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church Dear Editor: I am unapologetically a black man and I will not be silent as black people are being hatefully targeted as prey. I will not stand idly by as racists declare open season on black people. I fear no man. I will []
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Why Black Women Deserve A National Holiday - Blavity
It's time to honor Black women with a national holiday.
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Black People More Likely Than Whites and Latinos to Know Someone Who Died from COVID-19
A recent poll determined Black Americans are more likely to know someone who died from COVID-19 compared to white and Latino
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The House of Representatives Pass Anti-Hair Discrimination Bill, The CROWN Act
The House of Representatives announced that has passed the CROWN Act to protect Black Americans wearing natural hairstyles from discrimination in the workplace or at school.
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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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Source: Black Past
NASCAR Announces Confederate Flags Are Banned At All Tracks
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Keep Your Statues And Movies- Give Us Our Reparations Now – Your Black World
The paper says, “HBO Max temporarily removed the epic from its service after the surge of Black Lives Matter protests across the country and a re-energized discussion about racial inequality” ) But While Hollywood copes with their conflicts and contradictions for promoting White supremacy in their
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Source: Your Black World
Ford Foundation Pres: White CEOs Need To Recognize Their Privilege
Ford Foundation president Darren Walker speaks out against remarks from white executives who overlook Black candidates for senior roles.
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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent
Math is not Racist.
Math is not racist no more than a truck, car, gun, paycheck or TV is racist
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Source: ThyBlackMan
Team boss Lefevere fears coronavirus outbreak in peloton - Stabroek News
(Reuters) The return of professional cycle racing next month might be too soon and could lead to outbreaks of novel coronavirus, according to Deceuninck-Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere. The article Team boss Lefevere fears coronavirus outbreak in peloton appeared first on Stabroek News.
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We Need To Talk About Kat On 'The Bold Type'
The character's budding romance with Ava, a conservative who defends conversion therapy, couldn't have come at a worse time.
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