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Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to the utmost to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the
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‘Our time has come,’ Lizzo says about Vogue cover – Florida Courier
BY NARDINE SAAD LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS Grammy winner Lizzo triumphed on Sept. 25 in being the first big, Black woman to be on the cover of Vogue — a good-as-hell career highlight that came just a day after she lamented the Kentucky grand jury decision not to charge any officers in the death of
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Source: Florida Courier
George M. Johnson's New Memoir Reminds Us That ‘All Boys Aren't Blue’
I didn’t really know much about book genres or categories; I just knew I had this story about this Black queer kid growing
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BLACK NAMED CHIEF SWEEPER
COLUMBUS, OHIO,--a BLACK MAN, Mr. Everette Spurlock, has been named superintendent of this citys street cleaning department. The negroe community is overjoyed that the city has finally recognized the dependability of its colored
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#FIYAH! — LIVESTREAM 6.19.20 1PM ET — DEFENDING BLACK WALL STREET "THE MOVIE…"
Black businesses clustered on a strip of land that would become Greenwood in
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
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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3 North Carolina Cops Fired After Sergeant Comes Across Footage Of Them Talking About 'Slaughtering' Black People - Blavity
Three police officers in North Carolina were fired for comments about slaughtering Black people in a civil war.
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The Black crisis in the midst of the coronavirus crisis
“Even though Black people are in the emerging hot zones… Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans…we lack the ethnic
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Source: The Orlando Advocate
COMMENTARY: Is the Economy Rebounding? | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, including 40 percent of Black-owned companies, have closed, resulting in permanent job loss. Some of the hardest-hit industries include the leisure industries — travel, dining, and more.
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
Megan Thee Stallion Uses 'SNL' Performance To Send A Message To Daniel Cameron And Demand Protection For Black Women - Blavity
Megan Thee Stallion didn't hold back during her first headlining Saturday Night Live performance. The singer was performing her hit song, "Savage", on Saturday when she demanded respect for Black women and slammed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron for his lack of leadership in
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Audre Lorde Taught Us to Honor Our Differences
In a new anthology, the iconic writer reminds us liberation requires valuing all Black lives, not just those who mirror our own experiences Continue reading on ZORA »
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The 'Hood Biologist' Is Deconstructing How Racism Perpetuates Health Disparities In Black Communities. Here's How. - Blavity
Educator and scholar Shay-Akil McLean is working to "decolonize" DNA.
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Asked about police killing Black Americans, Trump bristles at question and says, ‘so are white people’ - African American News Today - EIN News
… . But studies have shown that Black Americans are much more likely to …
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Source: Chicago Tribune
Love That Chicken
Love That Chicken By J. Jioni Palmer I enjoy fried chicken just as much as the next man and I ain’t afraid to admit it. I am particularly fond of Popeye’s, not just for their chicken but …
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'First Fired, Last Hired': White Workers Hired Back Faster Than Black Workers
As the nation's job market continues to recover from the large-scale layoff's inflicted by the spread of COVID-19 and lockdowns that followed, Black workers are […]
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#TakeBack Essence- A Long-standing Pattern of the Mistreatment of its Black Female Employees | Chicago Defender
“Essence magazine is failing Black America. When Black media companies become unstable, it triggers the instability of the entire culture. Black women and men have long depended on Black-owned media outlets to service them with cultural identity, cultural memory, purpose, and economic
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Source: Chicago Defender
Booker T. Washington's Visit to Spokane (1913)
In 1913 the famous African American activist and educator Booker T. Washington left Tuskegee, Alabama, to begin a speaking tour around the United States. The ultimate goal of this tour was to raise funds for the Tuskegee Institute in order to educate more young African Americans. Washington began
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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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'Unfortunate COVID-19 didn't wipe out blacks' – Louisiana cop fired for racist Facebook post
A white Louisiana police officer, who in a racist Facebook post, said it is “unfortunate” the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t wiped out black people in the United States has been
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Mercer, Mabel Alice Wadham (1900-1984)
Mabel Mercer was one of the most important jazz cabaret singers of the 20th Century. Her personal singing style emphasizing interpretation, diction, lyrics, and projection over vocal proficiency influenced numerous leading singers including Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Nat
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Commentary: A ‘dirty’ word?  | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Dr. E. Faye Williams (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Politics can be strange! Sometimes the analysis of a political campaign can raise as many questions as it answers. From discussion around the current Biden campaign we … Continued
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Biden Says he was too ‘Cavalier’ About Black Voters’ Choices | Afro
By BILL BARROW and KAT STAFFORD, Associated Press
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Rona Rumble: Black Man Cracks White Man Over The Head With A Bottle During Bar Brawl
Another day, some more white folks have lost their minds. A video is making its rounds on social media highlighting a bar brawl that took place on Saturday (Jun.27) at an Arkansas bar that started over social distancing, according to witnesses. 
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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
Obituary: Chadwick Boseman, charismatic star who inspired millions with his lead role in Black Panther film
… of hope, who convinced young black Americans that pulling on a superhero … of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice of the …
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DEAR BLACK MAN: Twenty-one Black men pen open letters of encouragement and brotherhood to Black men | The Atlanta Voice
As far back as history can take us Black men have always been a part of our story—some good and some challenging.  Far before the hashtags, Black men's names and narratives have been written for them and at times by them. In the following letters, 21 Black men openly share radical intimate words
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
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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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Death has engulfed America; what can we do? –
Recently, there have been numerous killings of unarmed Black folks by the police and vigilantes, who believe they have a right to patrol their neighborhood and kill Black
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Jennifer Lawrence Joins Twitter, Immediately Demands Justice For Breonna Taylor
So what better way to make her debut than to encourage all her new followers to stand up against racial injustice and demand that the officers who killed Breonna Taylor be fired and
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Covid-19 vaccine trials have been slow to recruit Black and Latino people -- and that could delay a vaccine
… go into the African American community with people … Medical Association, which represents African-American physicians and their patients … this day. "African-American people get treated differently. … of adherents, predominantly African American. He said he …
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