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Michael Jordan Pledges To Donate $100 Million To Racial Justice Efforts
Basketball legend Michael Jordan committed to donating $100 million over 10 years to organizations advancing racial justice amid protests nationwide over systemic
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Citing Jobs, Trump Claims Victory Over Virus, Econ Collapse
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump effectively claimed victory over the economic crisis and COVID-19 on Friday and major progress against racial inequity, heartily embracing an unexpectedly good jobs report in hopes of convincing a discouraged nation he deserves another four years in
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Operation Equity
Although racially restricted housing covenants had been banned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, various forms of de facto housing segregation kept African Americans relatively isolated spatially in urban areas, including the city of Seattle.  Many white homeowners in the years following the
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George Floyd's Brother Says Trump Was Dismissive During Meeting: 'He Didn't Give Me An Opportunity To Even Speak' - Blavity
George died on May 25, after former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin drove his knee into the 46-year-old’s neck until he passed
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John Boyega Says He's Not Sure What Will Happen with His Career After Igniting Crowd During London Protest Against Police Brutality
A megaphone is all John Boyega needed to ignite a crowd of London protesters who gathered for George Floyd on Wednesday in the city’s Hyde
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The death of George Floyd sparks protests in Milwaukee and across the world
Hundreds rallied Friday, May 29, 2020 and through the weekend in Milwaukee to denounce the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other acts of police misconduct across the country before marching to I-43 and shutting down part of the
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10 Racist Supreme Court Rulings in U.S. History
When a slave petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for his freedom, the Court ruled against him—also ruling that the Bill of Rights didnt apply to African Americans. If it did, the majority ruling argued, then African Americans would be permitted the full liberty of speech in public and in private, to
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'Train Up a Child': North Carolina Father Goes Viral for Teaching 8-Year-Old Son Financial Literacy
Twenty-eight-year-old Kyren Gibson and his 8-year-old son, Kyng, have recently taken the internet by storm, thanks to a video in which Kyng flawlessly recites the definitions of financial terms that many often struggle to grasp even into
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Despite being called ‘coon and monkey’, here’s how Black players influenced Canadian hockey
For it was Black hockey players in the later half of the nineteenth century whose style of play and innovations helped shape the sport, effectively changing the game of hockey forever, according to “Black Ice”, a book about Black presence in the
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“I’M SORRY”: Virgil Abloh Apologizes For His Ridiculous $50 Donation & Comments Toward Protestors
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NBA Legend Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand Pledge $100 Million to Racial Equality, Education and Social Justice Organizations
According to ESPN.com, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand are pledging $100 million over the next 10 years to nationwide organizations “dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to
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Phillips Chapel CME Church, Las Cruces, New Mexico (1911- )
In 1911 a group of African Americans and Hispanics joined to build a small chapel, one of the first for the town of Las Cruces, New Mexico Territory. Their church, Phillips Chapel Colored Methodist Episcopal (now Christian Methodist Episcopal) CME Church is located in the Mesquite Historic District
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Protest spreads to Europe
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Andrea Harris, Black Economic Development Leader, Dies
The death of activist and Black economic development leader Andrea Lynette Harris, 72, last week, co-founder of the nonprofit N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development (aka “The Institute”) came as a shock to those who knew, loved and respected
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Opinion: The Signs Say Black Lives Matter. Yet the Very People Who Are Supposed to Protect Us too Often, in too Many Places, Don’t Seem to Agree. | Post News Group
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African Americans in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta: The Black Community of Weed, California
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Nashville's 10,000-Person Protest Was Organized By Teen Girls
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“I Can’t Breathe”
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Open letter: African writers in solidarity with African Americans
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This Newspaper Has Never Forgotten The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — And Its Fight Continues | The Oklahoma Eagle
Walk through the Greenwood neighborhood, Goodwin says, and you can’t miss the metal plaques on sidewalks commemorating the hundreds of black-owned businesses set ablaze during the 1921 Tulsa Race
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