A Moment Or A Movement? Black Bookstore Owners On Business One Year Later

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A Moment Or A Movement? Black Bookstore Owners On Business One Year Later

After last summer's surge in anti-racist book sales, NPR spoke to three Black bookstore owners across the country to ask if customers are still engaged with their businesses and anti-racist reading.

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It’s been a few years since Young M.A burst onto the rap scene and had the whole hood going “OOOUUU,” and though she’s fallen back since then she’s looking to make summer 2020 one for her

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Sir Henry Fraser leads the 2020 Carifest Virtual Summit in Celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month

In celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month, Charleston Carifest explores the birth of Charleston and its 350 year link to the Caribbean via the Barbados Carolina

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Lili Reinhart Comes Out As Bisexual, Supports LGBTQ For Black Lives Matter Protest

“Riverdale” star Lili Reinhart has come out as a “proud bisexual woman” in a post urging fans to attend a Black Lives Matter solidarity protest organized by the LGBTQ

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Biography

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where she has been on the faculty since

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11 Things To Do Besides Say 'This Has To Stop' After Police Brutality

Below, Black community activists and their allies share how to turn your empathy into action in the wake of police

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'Honey I'm Home!': Romeo Miller Fans Can't Contain Themselves After He Talks 'Future Wifey' and Kids

He took to Instagram on Monday, June 22 with a video of his cousins jokingly wishing him a happy

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Students finding ways to overcome COVID-19 mental stress - Expert suggests structured activities to limit negative impact of social distancing

Since schools were closed on March 13, three days after the first case of the deadly coronavirus was confirmed in the island, many students have complained of challenges coping with the quarantine measures even as the institutions transition into virtual delivery of

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Biden Pulls Back On 'Cavalier' Remarks About Black Voters

Former Vice President Joe Biden is backtracking on remarks he made on a popular black radio program on Friday that were criticized as questioning the cultural authenticity of black supporters of President

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Toronto cop found guilty after beating black man till he lost an eye

A Toronto police officer has been found guilty in the brutal beating of a young Black man in 2016, while his brother has been acquitted of all charges for the same

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The Black Card: We Are Our Own Solutions; We Must Praise Our Own

Social isolation can force us to want to be busy rather than reflect and address our mental state of mind, dealing with the pandemic and all the controlled chaos that comes with

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After failing yet another drug test for performance enhancing substances, Big Baby Miller’s fight scheduled for July 9th against Jerry Forrest has officially been

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Lizzo Speaks Her Truth on Body Positivity | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle

Photo courtesy of Chicago Defender Lizzo discussed with ESSENCE Magazine recently the ills of thin privilege and the body positivity movement that she says has been hijacked. On her social media page she posed the question, “Would you wake up and trade places with someone that’s on the heavier

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Ruth First , in full Heloise Ruth First (born May 4, 1925, Johannesburg, South Africa—died August 17, 1982, Maputo, Mozambique), South African activist, scholar, and journalist known for her relentless opposition to South Africa’s discriminatory policy of apartheid. In 1982 she was assassinated

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Widow And Family Of Rayshard Brooks Hold Emotional Press Conference

The family of Rayshard Brooks, the 27-year-old Black man who was killed by an Atlanta police officer, in a Wendy’s drive through, became extremely emotional during a press conference on Monday (June 15), expressing shock and grief that one the many incidents of Black men being killed by law

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Percy Romeo Miller Jr, or more commonly referred to as Lil’ Romeo, is a celebrated American personality. Born on August 19, 1989 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Miller is the son of Hip Hop star Master P. He is not only an outstanding singer and rapper, but has become a successful actor, basketball

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Relief for furloughed J’can workers in South Florida

Jamaican and other Caribbean workers employed to non-essential retail chains in South Florida are breathing a collective sigh of relief after a number of stores at which they work reopened their doors after weeks of closure due to the

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Publishing of six Dr. Seuss books stopped for racist, insensitive images

Six Dr. Seuss books will stop being published due to racist and insensitive images. The announcement came from Dr. Seuss Enterprises on the author's birthday Tuesday. Dr. Seuss Enterprises told the Associated Press that the books portray people in ways that are 'hurtful and wrong.' The six books

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Angela Davis To Receive BCRI’s Shuttlesworth Award on June 19

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Rayshard Brooks Struggled In System But Didn’t Hide His Past

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Oliver O. Howard

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George Floyd killing sparks national outrage and international disgrace

From Detroit to Atlanta, and from Los Angeles to Washington D.C., protestors took to the streets in record numbers to express their discontent over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who was the most recent – and most visible – victim of lethal force from a police

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Robert C. Hayden, Author/Historian

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Another 718 families benefit from Downsound's generosity

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Family Harassed Over Black Lives Matter Shirts at Six Flags

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To Me, White People Leading Diversity Trainings Is More Proof We Have A Long Way To Go - Blavity

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