No Protests Over Police Shooting of Black Man in Hawaii Points to Possible Racial Bias

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No Protests Over Police Shooting of Black Man in Hawaii Points to Possible Racial Bias

Lindsay Myeni is left heartbroken after she moved back to her home state of Hawaii because she felt it would be safer to raise her two Black sons there compared to other states in the U.S.

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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”

Francis J. Grimke was born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4, 1850. After the war he and his older brother, Archibald, went north to Lincoln University. Francis graduated from Lincoln in 1870. After working briefly at Lincoln, Grimke attended Princeton Theological Seminary from

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'What Office Are You In?' White Minneapolis Man Demands Answers from Group of Black Businessmen, Threatens to Call 911, Then Expresses Regret After Video Goes Viral

A Minnesota venture capitalist lost his office space after he threatened to call 911 on a group of Black businessmen who were using a gym in a co-working

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(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference

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Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19

“It doesn’t matter what color you are, how much money you have, how much education you have, things happen: grief, depression, anxiety, which COVID has really unleashed,” said F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Springboard Community Services, a regional full service behavioral health and case

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Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain - and now national action

In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a parade, a community festival, a soulful rendition of “Lift

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Employment Rates Are Dropping Among Black Women, Data Shows

Black women are not thriving when it comes to the job market recovery.

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(1861) Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”

On March 21, 1861, after seven states had seceded from the United States, two weeks after the inauguration of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, but three weeks before the firing on Fort Sumter, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens delivered what would be called the Cornerstone Speech in

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8 Minutes and 46 Seconds that will Change America and the World

Three Minneapolis police officers stood still, and almost silent, as Derek Chauvin, another police officer, had his knee on the neck of George

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(1932) Angelo Herndon Addresses His Jury

Gentlemen of the Jury: I would like to explain in detail the nature of my case and the reason why I was locked up. I recall back about the middle of June 1932, when the Relief Agencies of the City of Atlanta, the County Commission and the city government as a whole, were cutting both Negro and

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Lupita Nyong’o Remembers ‘Beloved’ Chadwick Boseman In Moving Eulogy

Lupita Nyong'o posted a moving, heartfelt eulogy mourning the death of "my friend" Chadwick Boseman, making social media users who read it a collective emotional wreck.

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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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Terry Crews Sends Tweet About 'Black Supremacy' and Immediately Stirs Up Controversy

His tweet comes while people are protesting police brutality and racial discrimination, while demanding justice for George Floyd, a Black man who died on Memorial after Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, held his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine

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Ida B’s Pulitzer - Both too late and right on time

Exactly one hundred and thirty-six years to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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Assertive, foresighted and progressive political leadership among Black elected officials has been wanton in the past, and now, Black folks must decide who to elect as we’re faced with some of the gravest challenges of our

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Dismantling structural racism in health care

U of M health professionals speak out on needed system reforms

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(1921) Marcus Garvey “Address to the Second UNIA Convention”

By 1921 the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was well on its way to becoming the largest predominately black organization in the world. Marcus Garvey, the UNIAs founder, however, already recognized W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP as its chief rival. In his closing night speech to the

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(1875) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Great Problem to be Solved”

After the Civil War Frances Ellen Watkins Harper worked among African Americans as a representative of the Womens Christian Temperance Union. From her new position Harper publicized the violence and intimidation in the South directed at the freedpeople. She argued African Americans must organize to

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Volkswagen Goes on Apology Campaign For 'Racist Advertising' Featuring Dark-Skinned Man Being Pushed By White Hands

A couple of Volkswagen bigwigs say they’re baffled by how an inflammatory ad for their Golf 8 made it onto their Instagram and Facebook

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New film '1 Angry Black Man' unpacks racism

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Rachel Lindsay Says Producers Of ‘The Bachelorette’ Cast Black Men Who Don’t Date Black Women

During a recent interview, Rachel Lindsay, the first Black Bachelorette revealed that producers of the show intentionally cast Black men who don't date Black women.

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(1987) Thurgood Marshall, “A Colorblind Society Remains an Aspiration”

On August 15, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke to a gathering of federal judges. Reflecting on his two decades on the Court and particularly on recent affirmative action rulings by the High Court, Justice Marshall reminded his audience that the United States had not yet

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Has Turner lost his damn mind? Racist statues to be placed in African American museum?

A press release sent out by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office on Thursday had me stop the printing of our newspaper after learning what the Black man leading this city has decided to do — and on Juneteenth, to add insult to

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Bubba Wallace noose shows where America is stuck

NASCAR has as long as I can remember allowed fans to bring Confederate flags to their events, and from my neck of the woods that is not

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Land occupiers in Joburg vow to return to patch of land where shacks were destroyed

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Shemar Moore: "I am proud to be Black, but I am also proud to be white"

“I am half Black and I am half

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Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)

November 9, 1938, Argued

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Africa: Racism and Self-Hate - Why Africa Is Not Innocent

Just as it was an enabler of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, tribalism has also manifested in post-colonial Africa in the form of divisive, exclusionist, conflicting and destabilising politics of ethno-geographic identity, which has proven to be an anathema to the collective

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Terry Crews Dragged For Being Problematic Again: “Defeating White Supremacy Without White People Creates Black Supremacy

Just days after stating that he wanted to make amends with Black women, Terry Crews made comments about the dangers of so-called Black supremacy that left many perplexed and

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Ida B’s Pulitzer was late but right on time –

Exactly 136 to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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I Am Tired…The Pandemic Of Racism | Afro

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