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Homeschool Program Founder Dr. Sheva Quinn Offers Free Black Lives Matter Course To School Students
Georgia, USA – The founder of Black Classical University and educator to educators, Dr. Sheva Quinn is launching a free course to teach children about Black Lives Matter and the present civil rights movement in the United
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The political and structural context of the police murder of...
Recent mobilizations of the Black community in reaction to the shooting deaths of unarmed Black men demonstrate that we can have an impact on the course of actions by officials of the criminal justice
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Inglewood students hold dialogue on equal opportunities
INGLEWOOD — Students at Morningside High School are leading a community dialogue about creating equal opportunities for success for Black and Latino students in the Inglewood Unified School
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BET To Air Special Coverage Of Rayshard Brooks' Atlanta Funeral Today
BET is bringing live coverage from the Ebenezer Baptist Church beginning at
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Loyola Marymount seeks to eradicate systemic racism
In a letter to the school community dated June 16, LMU President Timothy Law Snyder said he was reminded during a June 6 Black Lives Matter march he participated in “that the police violence and systemic racism that infects our society by killing Black people is a system in which I, as a white
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17-Year-Old Teen Raises Money For Atlanta Black Businesses
Seventeen-year-old CJ Pearson is the founder of Last Hope USA, an organization and initiative that supports Black-owned businesses that have been adversely affected by recent
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'A Human Reaction to a Deeply Dysfunctional Relationship': The Connection Between Police Violence, Looting and Riots In Minneapolis
Protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, burned a police precinct in response to the death of George Floyd — killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin with a knee to the man’s neck, with three other
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The role insurance companies play in the brutality against Black bodies
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Selective outrage retrogressive to the African plight
Even those in Africa, well, some of them, marched in support of the rights and cries of the Black Lives Matter
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Walmart to stop sales of 'All Lives Matter' merchandise
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Luxury Size Inclusive Fashion Brand 11 Honoré Launches In-House Collection Headed By Black Designer
Size inclusive, luxury e-tailer 11 Honoré has launched its first in-house collection comprised of chic, understated pieces that can be seamlessly incorporated into
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Bob Johnson Calls on BLM to Establish Independent Black Political Party to Help Advance Black Interests
Last week, Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), sent an open letter to the “leaders and supporters” of the Black Lives Matter movement calling for them to consider establishing “a formal independent political
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This Pride Month, let us not forget about our Black liberation pioneers
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Singer H.E.R. Invests in Black-Owned Vegan Cookie Company Co-signed by Jay-Z
A year after Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter invested in Partake Foods, a Black-owned vegan cookie company, the healthy snack brand has landed another superstar
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We can’t let this moment pass
I was deeply moved by the reading, and felt it was critical in this moment that a United States Senator from the Deep South stand on the Senate floor and declare that Black Lives
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A Black Lives Matter Discussion That Ignores The Abuse Of Black Women Is Not It
For years now, the name Russell Simmons, in addition to being lauded as a media mogul, a forefather of the globalization of Hip Hop culture, has also been synonymous with powerful men accused of rape and sexual
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Filmmaker Julian Marshall Documents Intensity Of NYC Protests
While protests erupted from coast to coast, seasoned New York City filmmaker Julian Marshall, was devising a plan on how to take his Blackmagic Pocket 4K camera and capture the events unfolding in one of the epicenters of the daily Black Lives Matter movements and nightly blazing
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Travel Company Offers 100 Free Getaways to Black Activists
Getaway, the lodging company known for its tiny cabins situated in nature, is making the statement that rest is a form of resistance and is vital to the
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Study Links Trauma of Racism to High Blood Pressure in Black Americans
The lasting echoes of that trauma left Lawrence not at all surprised by a new study linking racism in the United States to an elevated risk of high blood pressure among Black
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George Floyd's family says four officers involved in his death should be charged with murder | The Atlanta Voice
The family of George Floyd — who died after pleading that he couldn’t breathe while a police officer held him down with a knee on his neck — say they want the four Minneapolis officers involved charged with
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Opinion: Vestiges Of Insensitive Names And Imagery Challenged | The Oklahoma Eagle
Black Lives Matter and the tragic death of George Floyd have shaken America to its core and revealed a nation weary and now angry over the state of race relations in this
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Greensboro Celebrates Juneteenth
Greensboro residents celebrated Juneteenth this year with three days of virtual events, concerts and
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Trump calls Black Lives Matter a 'symbol of hate' as he digs in on race | The Atlanta Voice
By Wednesday, Trump was calling the words “black lives matter” a “symbol of hate” — a description he’s refused to use for Confederate emblems — that would spoil the “luxury avenue” he once called
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Activists demand that local officials drop support for Lacey
LOS ANGELES – Several Black activists are demanding that local officials withdraw their support of embattled District Attorney Jackie Lacey or face mass protests and political opposition during their own election campaigns this
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Jewel Scott breaks legal and racial barriers in Georgia
Former Jamaican honorary consul to Atlanta, Jewel Scott, recently created history by becoming the first Caribbean national to be elected to the Superior Court of Clayton County in the southern US state of
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The Racist Origins Of Trump’s ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’ Quote
As protests intensified in Minneapolis following the death of a Black man pinned down by a white police officer, President Donald Trump issued a naked threat in a pair of
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Kyle Korver: Privileged | The Oklahoma Eagle
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Cariol Horne: The Black cop who was strangely fired for preventing a chokehold on a man
In 2006, Cariol Horne was a few years shy of her 20th as a cop in Buffalo, New York when she and another officer Gregory Kwiatkowski, a white man, accosted a black
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We Can’t Let This Moment Pass
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