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Protest march in Ghana in wake of George Floyd killing as president denounces brutality
As nationals across the world solidarize with America’s black community in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by holding protest marches, Ghanaian nationals and their African-American counterparts resident in Ghana also held a peaceful protest march, which culminated in front of the US Embassy in
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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice
Rona Rumble: Black Man Cracks White Man Over The Head With A Bottle During Bar Brawl
One white man learned the hard way not to invade the space of a Black man and his
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Source: The Urban Daily
NBA commits $300 million to black communities | Atlanta Daily World
The NBA Board of Governors announced on this, the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, an unprecedented $300 million commitment for the newly created NBA Foundation “dedicated to creating … Continued
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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media
South Africa: George Floyd's Death Presents Us With Opportunity to Address Human Rights Issues - SA
South Africa's national government said on Tuesday that the "regrettable death" of George Floyd presented the US with an "opportunity to address fundamental issues of human rights, such as freedom dignity and
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Source: allAfrica.com
A Video Of A White Woman Calling The Police On A Black Man In Central Park Goes Viral
A white woman has called the cops on a black man in Central Park after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The story went viral after he posted a video of her reaction online.
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Source: Stories About Black History
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3 North Carolina KKKops Fired After Racist Remarks Accidentally Captured On Video
The latest such incident comes from North Carolina where The Charlotte Observer is reporting three boys in blue have been fired after video of them ranting about a the necessity of a new Civil War to “wipe Black people off the
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Source: The Urban Daily
It’s Still About Economic Development, Not Burning America Down
From the days of Slavery, Black Power and Passive Resistance
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Source: The New Journal and Guide
(1980) Thomas Sowell, “Politics and Opportunity: Background”
In December 1980, shortly after former California Governor Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a California-based public policy institute (think tank) sponsored the Black Alternatives Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San
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Source: Black Past
Jane Datcher: First African-American woman to get an advanced degree at Cornell handwrote her thesis - Face2Face Africa
This week, Black botanists across the world have been sharing their love of plants through stories, photos or poems under the #BlackBotanistsWeek initiative. Launched Monday on Twitter and Instagram on the heels of the #BlackBirdersWeek campaign, the event is designed to “promote, encourage, create
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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice
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Charlamagne Tha God Wants The Black Community To Own Licensed Guns In Wake of Ahmaud Arberys Shooting
On Sunday, May 10, Charlamagne Tha God had an interesting interview on MSNBC show “Weekends With Alex Witt” where he joined a discussion about the shooting and killing of Ahmaud Arbery by father and son, Gregory McMichael and Travis
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Source: Your Black World
A debate over identity and race asks, are African Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’? - African American News Today - EIN News
who popularised the term “African American” in an effort to the African slave trade. African American acknowledges that. Any term she wrote, was whether African Americans needed a new label Jackson’s campaign brought African American into popular use in
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Bray, Keve (1925--1972)
Seattle businessman and political activist Keve Bray played an essential role in the local civil rights movement and is especially notable for his role in the black power movement in the Central District.  Bray was born on June 9, 1925.  Very little is known about his childhood background.  By the
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Source: Black Past
Nov
17
1972
Op Ed Submission: “Why We Must Resist Our Hatred of Candace Owens: An open letter to Dave Chappelle…and every anti-racist” | Afro
I was one of maybe five Black students in my Stilwell, Kansas high
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
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Source: Black Past
Black Lives Matter Founder Finds Hope in Global Protests Over George Floyd’s Alleged Murder Arizona Informant Newspaper
By Gail Berkley, The Sun Reporter For Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza the global outpouring of protests and activism following the alleged murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody has been heartening and makes her hopeful for the future. At the same time, she
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Source: Arizona Informant Newspaper
Systemic racism exist even during a pandemic
Moreover, the majority of essential workers seems to be minorities working in the food service and delivery fields, warehouse workers, health care aides in nursing homes and assisted living centers, etc. many of the which didn’t necessarily choose to work, but had to work in order to take care of
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Source: The Dallas Examiner
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(1932) Angelo Herndon Addresses His Jury
Gentlemen of the Jury: I would like to explain in detail the nature of my case and the reason why I was locked up. I recall back about the middle of June 1932, when the Relief Agencies of the City of Atlanta, the County Commission and the city government as a whole, were cutting both Negro and
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Source: Black Past
Jan
16
1933
Black Woman Schools Uninformed English Man About the Harsh Aftermath of Slavery (VIDEO)
Black Woman Schools Uninformed English Man About the Harsh Aftermath of Slavery (VIDEO) An African woman quickly corrects an English man about the reality of slavery. Video by the BBC’s ‘The Big Question.’
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Source: Black Then
Detroit Anti-Black Riot
Whites began a riot in Detroit after it was rumored a black man had killed a white woman and her infant. A similar rumor, alleging the victims were white and the perpetrator white, soon found its way into the black community. In truth, no one had been killed. An estimated 25 blacks and 9 whites
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Source: Blackfacts.com
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Jun
20
1943
White People, Stop Quoting MLK To Police How Black People Protest
Last Thursday, Martin Luther King III responded to the increasingly heated protests spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police with a quote from his father, the Rev. Martin Luther King
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Camille Cosby Speaks Out After Pennsylvania Court Grants Appeal For Bill Cosby (Video) | The Oklahoma Eagle
Mrs. Cosby slammed the Me Too movement, and defended her
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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle
Defunding won’t reform the police department –
When a 77-year-old Black retired St. Louis Police Department captain David Dorn was shot and killed by Black looters, there was no comparable outrage by Black and White Democratic Party national political
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Source: Florida Courier
With Black Americans dying of COVID at higher rates, the medical community points to racism in health care - African American News Today - EIN News
Racial biases and inequalities in health care have resulted in Black Americans having poor health outcomes and higher rates of chronic diseases than whites, which has led to their being infected with the coronavirus at higher rates and being nearly twice as likely to die of it.
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Source: The Morning Call
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Mayor: Officer Who Put Knee on Man’s Neck Should Be Charged
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis called Wednesday for criminal charges against the white police officer seen on video kneeling against the neck of a handcuffed black man who complained that he could not breathe and died in police
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
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Former Employees At Smithsonian African Art Museum Accuse Leaders Of Racism, Say Curation Team Is Exclusively White - Blavity
Just five employees out of the museums 40-person staff are Black despite its focus on African art.
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Source: Blavity News
Single, childless and black
Society, especially African societies, are generally uneasy with the idea of adult men and women who, for whatever reason, never got married or have
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
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Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19
“It doesn’t matter what color you are, how much money you have, how much education you have, things happen: grief, depression, anxiety, which COVID has really unleashed,” said F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Springboard Community Services, a regional full service behavioral health and case
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
The ‘Mis-education of the Negro’ remains in full effect today | Afram News
destroyed Blacks for generations. Enough is enough! And for anyone who is in favor of placing the Confederate statue in HMAAC, I feel you need to read the "Mis-Education of the Negro," by Carter G. Woodson. If you did, you would see just how many of us are still trapped in a slave mentality.
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Op-ed: Why are you ‘white?’ - African American News Today - EIN News
of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama was monitored the rights of newly liberated African Americans to own property, conduct business of Black American Innovators” and “Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American
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Blayton, Jesse B., Sr. (1879-1977)
Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., was a pioneer African American radio station entrepreneur.  Blayton founded WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 1949 making him the first African American to own and operate a radio station in the United
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Source: Black Past
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1949
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