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Beyond health issues, justice is the most serious item on our national agenda | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Part of the frustration is knowing that it took 74 days for an arrest to be made, even though law enforcement had video evidence of precisely what was done and who did it; the quintessential justice delay is justice
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George Monroe 1834-1886, Stagecoach Driver
George Monroe was on of 2 Black men who carried mail on the famous Pony express. Monroe had the honor of driving Presidents Grant and Hayes along the dangerous S-curves of the Wanona trail into Yosemite Valley. Badger Pass in Yosemite National Park was named in his honor.
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18
2002
Investigate not just Ahmad’s death, but the system that let his killers escape
The 64-year-old former police investigator and his 34-year-old son who are charged in his death told police he thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected in several break-ins in the
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White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher In Central Park Has Been Fired
White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher In Central Park Has Been Fired
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Source: Stories About Black History
Coronavirus Update: Attendees At Florida Block Party Claim Racial Bias And Over-Policing
The block party advertised on social media drew a crowd of 3,000 mostly Black people on Saturday as the state reopened businesses and public
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Source: Black America Web
Woman Fired After Backlash From Racist Park Confrontation
NEW YORK (AP) — The verbal dispute between a white woman with an unleashed dog and a black man bird watching in Central Park might normally have gone unnoticed in a city preoccupied by the coronavirus
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Source: Black America Web
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Minnesota Governor Activates National Guard Amid Protests Over George Floyd's Death
Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday signed an executive order activating the Minnesota National Guard to help restore peace following days of furor over a video showing a white police officer holding his knee on the neck of a black man who
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Prologue: Selected Articles | National Archives
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UN human rights chief calls for 'serious action' to stop police killings of unarmed African Americans
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday condemned the string of police killings of unarmed African Americans and called for U.S. officers who use excessive force to be charged and convicted for their
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Ed Gray, NDG Senior Columnist: The Pandemic of Hate Continues
The Pandemic of Hate in America continues in 2020 with no signs of
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Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World (1920)
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Low-income areas will struggle to contain Covid-19
A s the Covid-19 crisis continues, a new report suggests that it will be hard to control the spread of the virus in low-income
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761st Tank Battalion (1942-45)
The 761st Tank Battalion was formed in the spring of 1942 and was the first African American tank battalion to see combat in the Second World War. Commanding this battalion was a white Lt. Colonel, Paul L. Bates.  As the unit fell under the scrutiny of other white officers who were critical of
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Source: Black Past
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A Conversation with Consumption: Why I, A Black Man, Gave Up On Air Jordans
Multiply the many delicious things denied to you by the very nature of one’s Blackness, and it becomes impossible to not understand why Black men have a desire for
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NAACP Atlanta calls for investigation of treatment of blacks in Glynn and Waycross
In response to the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, NAACP Atlanta is calling for an investigation into the history of inequality in the criminal justice system in the Glynn and Waycross Georgia circuits that have demonstrated racial bias in the application of the
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Source: Atlanta Tribune
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Million Man March
Nation of Islams Minister Louis Farrakhan called over one million black men together in Washington DC for A Day of Atonement and Reconciliation. The day called for black men to take charge of their lives and communities by showing respect for themselves and devotion to their families.
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16
1995
Davis, Angela (1944--)
Angela Davis, activist, educator, scholar, and politician, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama.  The area received that name because so many African American homes in this middle class neighborhood had been bombed over the years by the Ku
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1970
Colin Kaepernick On Minneapolis Uprising: 'We Have The Right To Fight Back'
Colin Kaepernick addressed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent uprising that has taken place in the area since then, saying, “We have the right to fight
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Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Baltimore (1863-- )
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church was the first African American Catholic Church in the United States.  The building, located on the corner of Calvert and Pleasant Street in Baltimore, Maryland, was originally constructed in 1836 for the congregation of the First Universalist Church.  By
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The Politics of Black Women's Hair Symposium - Afternoon Session
1:33:23 The Politics of Black Womens Hair Symposium - Late Session - Duration: 1:47:57. Penn Arts & Sciences 10,813 views
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Abbott, Robert Sengstacke (1870-1940)
Born in 1870 to formerly enslaved parents, Abbott attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and then went on to graduate from Kent Law School (now Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois) in 1899. In May 1905 he started publishing the Chicago Defender. In the early years he personally sold
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Source: Black Past
How Income Inequality Affects Minority Workers
It’s no secret that white households in the United States take in significantly more income than black and Latino households do, fueling racial inequality. What’s to blame for this discrepancy? It’s not just that whites work in higher paying jobs than their minority counterparts do. Even when
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17
2012
(1900) W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World,”
W.E.B. Dubois would eventually emerge as a founder of the NAACP, a leading human rights activists and the most important African American intellectual of the 20th Century. However those developments lay in the future when the 32-year-old DuBois gave the closing address at the first Pan African
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Jul
25
1900
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal was born on March 6, 1972 in New Jersey. He is a retired NBA player, former rapper, former actor and currently, an analyst on Inside NBA. He was drafted by Orlando Magic in 1992 and was suddenly thrown into the spot light. He shined brightly, winning Rookie of the Year in
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Mar
6
1972
Ahmaud Arbery’s Alleged Murderer Was Allegedly Encouraged By Cops To Be A Vigilante
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Black Marriage: Four Myths Busted by the Facts
Do black people get married? That question has been asked in one form or another in a series of news reports about the black marriage “crisis.” On the surface, such stories seem to be concerned about black women in search of love, but these media reports have largely served to fuel
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What I Just Learned About Black People In Early American History Blew My Mind
A friend just sent me a video that changed my view on American
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100 Black Men of America, Inc.
100 Black Men of American Inc. is a civic organization dedicated to the improvement of quality of life in the African American community through fostering the development of young African American men.  In 1963, a group of African American men met in New York to discuss concerns about the cultural
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
In the following article Melissa Milewski, a graduate student in history at New York University, describes her research which has uncovered the surprising success of African American litigants in court cases in the post-Civil War
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1
1854
Ethiopia Invaded by Italy
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior
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1935
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