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In a new interview, the wife of beleaguered comedian and entertainer Bill Cosby broke her silence and shared that she's on board with an upcoming appeal for her husband's sexual assault conviction.
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Missy Elliott Admits 2020 Has Taught Her Black History Lessons That School Never Did
Just a few weeks in 2020 have made for quite a bit of learning for Missy Elliott when it comes to Black history, and she now questions why some of those
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Terry Crews Controversial Tweet About Black Supremacy Prompts Social Media Backlash Free Press of Jacksonville
By Bryan Alexander Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews faced Twitter backlash Sunday after a tweet about race relations he meant to be inspiring turned to controversy. As protests continued nationwide following the May 25 death [...]
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Local Pastor Grows Into Activist Role
SACRAMENTO They’d say it was all orchestrated by a higher power, but Sacramento’s Genesis Church family clearly played a major role in organizing the recent memorial service in Minneapolis, Minnesota for George Floyd. Floyd died on May 25 yelling out “I can’t breathe” as a White police officer
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Cosby Citing Systemic Racism As He Fights Assault Conviction
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private. U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno had another word
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Black Workers more likely to face retaliation for raising Coronavirus concerns | The Atlanta Voice
As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a new study reveals that many companies’ actual policies and practices contradict their public statements. With just a small
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Let’s Not Forget to “Reopen” Our Children - Houston Forward Times
Is anybody thinking about what our children and youth are going through during these times? The post Let’s Not Forget to “Reopen” Our Children appeared first on Houston Forward Times.
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Local church raises Black Lives Matter banner - WS Chronicle
To show solidarity with the movement, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, which has a predominately white congregation, raised their second BLM banner at the church last Thursday, July 2. The post Local church raises Black Lives Matter banner appeared first on WS Chronicle.
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Zendaya Is Over the Boxer Braids Chatter in White Media
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NASA will name its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agencys first African American female engineer
barriers and open opportunities for African Americans and women in the Jackson, along with her esteemed African American colleagues Christine Darden, Katherine Johnson recognize the contributions of women, African Americans, and people of all backgrounds
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Milwaukee County Passes Ordinance To Advance Racial Equity And Improve Health Outcomes
Milwaukee County leaders commit to eliminating institutional racism by addressing County polices, practices and power structures through a racial equity lens On April 29 Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele with Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson, County Executive-elect David
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé used her platform Sunday while accepting the BET humanitarian award to relay a direct appeal to viewers: Go vote. Your voices are being heard and youre proving to our ancestors that their struggles were not in vain, said the
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
NASA announced it has named one of its headquarters in Washington D.C after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black American female engineer at NASA.
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Body Bags, Black Power and Ballots Focus of Kemitic Empire - Free Press of Jacksonville
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Over 300 Black Hollywood Artists and Executives Demand Change With New Initiative Hollywood 4 Black Lives - Black Enterprise
More than 300 hundred Black artists and executives have banded together to form Hollywood 4 Black Lives with demands for the entertainment industry
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Black Ink Crew: Chicago Star Phor Brumfield Causes an Uproar After He Compares Black-on-Black Crime to BLM Movement
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Super-sized Racism: Former McDonald’s Execs Strike Back In Explosive Race Discrimination Lawsuit | Chicago Defender
By Trevor Coleman and Trevor W. Coleman II For more than 50 years the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial diversity as a critical
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Marc Lamont Hill and Sil Lai Abrams discuss accountability, MeToo in hip-hop - TheGrio
Sil Lai Abrams and Marc Lamont Hill engaged in critical dialogue on Wednesday after Hills participation in a panel in which Russell Simmons was added to the discussion. Simmons has been accused of sexual misconduct and rape by multiple women, including Abrams, as laid out in On The Record
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Bearing Witness to Injustice: From Ron Settles to George Floyd, Nothing’s Changed - Black Voice News
At the risk of appearing redundant, I want to mirror what others have said in response to the recent series of deaths involving one Black woman and two Black men in three separate incidents at the hands of police or vigilantes, as well as the hundreds of other Black men and women murdered under the
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TIME FOR REAL CHANGE IN BLACK AMERICA | The Crusader Newspaper Group
It is time to face facts: the relationship between Black people and the United States of America is at a crossroads. The past couple of months have revealed a festering wound in race relations that needs more than a band aid solution; real change must happen. Juneteenth was recently
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Kendrick Sampson: ‘There Is No Revolution Without Art’
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