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FBI Exhumes Body Of Biracial Man Last Seen Alive At 2004 House Party, Will Investigate Death As Possible Hate Crime - Blavity
The FBI has exhumed the body of Alonzo Brooks as it investigates the possible racially motivated homicide of the 23-year-old.
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Blacks in California Split Over Vote That Could Raise Some Property Taxes - Los Angeles Sentinel
The initiative has caused proponents and opponents in the Black community to draw battle lines. Each side has dug in, pointing to the benefits or the dangers of Prop 15 in opposing efforts to win the hearts, minds and votes of African Americans and other Californians. If passed, Prop 15 would
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Blacks in California Split Over Vote That Could Raise Some Property Taxes - Black Voice News
Proposition 15, the “Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative,” is on the Nov. 3 ballot in California.  If Californians vote yes on “Split Roll” - shorthand for the proposition’s title - the state will come up with a new taxation formula. The
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A region with outsized punch - African American News Today - EIN News
… had killed George Floyd, an African-American. The resulting protests shut down … as mayor Lori Lightfoot, an African-American, lesbian, ex-prosecutor. At the …
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John Lewis, an American Hero and Moral Leader Alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Dies at 80 
The 1965 Selma march was led by John Lewis. Lewis was perhaps the last remaining voice of moral authority from the civil rights era. Voting rights remains a challenge in the U.S. Lewis was on the front lines of that effort which was resisted by white racists in the South attempting to stifle Black
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AN ARTIST’S ANGST: USING FAN ART FOR HONOR AND RELEASE - Black News Channel
By Candace J. Semien/ Jozef Syndicate reporter @jozefsyndicate Art-Alchemy is the technique of using traditional art methods to transform an individual into another figure. When a digital painting depicts someone as a known superhero, the art becomes fan-art. All together, art alchemy is one part
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Hundreds Attend March for Justice at ODU - The New Journal and Guide
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Facebook and Instagram to study racial bias against African Americans, Hispanics on their platforms - African American News Today - EIN News
… helped put the deaths of Black Americans by police officers on the … to study racial bias against African Americans, Hispanics on their platforms (2020 …
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The Fritz Pollard Alliance Is 'Deeply Troubled' By Allegations Against NY Jets Owner
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Al Kapone brings his raw-edge lyrics to the blues with new album | New Pittsburgh Courier
Pioneer Memphis rapper releases “Hip-Hop Blues” as AK Bailey. by Tracy Sow — Special to TSDMemphis.com Nearly everyone has heard the triple platinum collaborations with hip-hop and country or rock. The collaborations have launched, saved, or revised musical careers. Much of the nation strolled down
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Honorable Rep. John Lewis Dies At 80 After Years of Activism | The Savannah Tribune
The honorable Representative John Lewis died on Friday from cancer after a full life dedicated to the battle against racial inequality. Rep. Lewis announced his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer on Dec. 29, but he vowed to fight it with the same esteem that he had with his lifelong work. “I have been
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School Board Is Equally Responsible For The Racial Regression Of Seattle Public Schools - The Seattle Medium
Our community will make it clear that the current members of the school board -- Liza Rankin, Lisa Rivera-Smith, Chandra N. Hampson, Eden Mack, Zachary DeWolf, Brandon K. Hersey and especially Leslie Harris, because she has been serving since 2016 and is the longest tenured school board member
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‘‘Racism’ Did Not Seem Sufficient.' Author Isabel Wilkerson on the American Caste System
… police brutality directed at Black Americans has led to a … ordinary lives of ordinary African Americans, we miss an opportunity … describing the circumstances facing Black Americans. In writing The Warmth … .S. caste system, Black Americans have remained at the …
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Serena Williams and her Daughter Join Natalie Portman as Investors in New Los Angeles Soccer Team
[ad_1] The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) announced that the city of Los Angeles has been awarded an expansion team that is a majority woman-founded group that has formally coined itself “Angel City” in honor of its planned home in Los Angeles, according to a press release. The time has come
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Which side are you on? - The Bay State Banner
Robert Unanue, the CEO of Goya Foods, went to the White House and lavishly praised Donald Trump. Now we will see whether the nation’s Latinx people endorse that perspective. Much is at stake. The post Which side are you on? appeared first on The Bay State Banner.
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Cummings effectively told OAS and the world that Chief Justice’s ruling was irrelevant - Stabroek News
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LA Activists Drill Down on Who Deserves Reparations for Slavery and Why
Two bills calling for the study of reparations owed to African Americans are making their way through both the California legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.  As state and federal lawmakers grapple with whether or not the State of California - and the United States as a whole
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The First Black-Owned Stock Exchange Just Launched This Week
The Dream Exchange is the first Black-owned stock exchange in the country, founded by Joe Cecala, to offer investment opportunities to marginalized groups.
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Black Content Creator Leads Her Team to Victory in Netflix’s Gaming Tournament
Black content creator Jayla led her team to victory earning permanent bragging rights winning Netflix's 'Old Guard' gaming competition held last week.
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Protests Helped Save Black-Owned Business That Coronavirus Nearly Killed : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR
When coronavirus killed foot traffic at Tommy Rhine's downtown Denver cobbler shop, he fell behind on rent. A "Black owned business" sign in his shop window during protests led to lots of business.
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Alonzo Brooks’ Body Exhumed After Cold Case Featured On ‘Unsolved Mysteries'
The FBI is confirming his body was removed from its grave.
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Basketball Has Taken LA Native Noelle Quinn Full Circle and Back
Last week I was fortunate enough to talk to the recent UCLA Hall of Fame inductee and only female player to have her jersey retired at Bishop Montgomery High School, in Torrance, CA., Noelle Quinn. During our conversation the modest, soft-spoken UCLA Graduate and WNBA Champion shared with me some
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Sierra Club Reckons With Racist History
The environmental group pledged to examine its “substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy” and to remove or rename monuments of founder John Muir.
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Ben Shapiro ranted against Black Americans’ views of the Founders. Here’s what he doesn’t understand - African American News Today - EIN News
Can you spot the problem with this question from a Fox News poll? The latest Fox News survey asks voters how they view the country’s Founders. Sixty-three percent see them as heroes, while 15 percent say villains. Another 15 percent say it depends and 7 percent gave no opinion. The results allowed
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John W. Henry Jr., the first African American administrator at Johns Hopkins Hospital and later a city official, dies - African American News Today - EIN News
John Wayman Henry Jr., son of the Rev. Dr. John W. Henry Sr., an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and his wife, the Rev. Mary Walker Henry, who was also an African Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Richmond, Virginia, and spent his early years …
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Rudy Ray Moore: Comedian and Actor in 1970s Blaxploitation Cinema
Rudy Ray Moore was a comedian and actor played a major role in 1970s Blaxploitation cinema, as the legendary comic pimp, Dolemite. He got his start in Cleveland two decades earlier, while hanging out with a performer named Estella Caldonia Young at the old Majestic Hotel on East 55th. Moore was
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Rep. John Lewis Helped Win the Civil Rights War; Why Are We Still Fighting It? - ThyBlackMan
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. In 1965, Lewis suffered a fractured skull when he led 600 civil rights workers on a peaceful protest that turned violent as Lewis and the protesters were attacked by the police on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in
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