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The Anti-Racism Movement Requires More Than a Corporate Donation, or Statement

A critical thought piece on how companies can actively participate in anti-racism practices that don't seem performative.

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Preserved by Purpose: Black Lives Still Matter

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Watch ‘Just Mercy,’ ‘13th’ and more for free

Responding to the times and demand, streaming platforms like Netflix, GooglePlay and Amazon have curated “Black Lives Matter” collections of movies, TV shows and documentaries, with select free

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Donald Trump not 'the right President' to handle current situation in the US, says African American soccer star

(CNN) U.S. Men's National Team midfielder Weston McKennie says he doesn't think President Donald Trump is "... the right president for this time" to address what has unfolded in the wake George

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Teaching Race in Schools in the 21st Century

In the essay below, Douglas Edelstein, a Social Sciences instructor at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, describes the challenges faced by instructors of all backgrounds in sensitively teaching issues of race in public and private

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Senate Confirms Nation’s First African American Service Chief – Westside Story Newspaper – Online

In an unanimous 98-0 vote presided over by Vice President Pence, a rare occasion, the Senate voted to confirm Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown as the Air Force’s next chief of

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Black Lives Matter goes mainstream after Floyd's death

For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical

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Twitter Slams Terry Crews For Worrying About ‘Black Supremacy’ When White Supremacy Is Still The Norm

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Bouchet, Edward Alexander (1852-1918)

Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut to William Francis and Susan Cooley Bouchet. Edward attended the segregated primary school in New Haven and later finished his secondary education at Hopkins Grammar School in 1870. An outstanding

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How to Support the Movement for #BlackLivesMatter?

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Black Soldiers in the Civil War | National Archives

The issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off a rush by free black men to enlist in U.S. military units. They wereturned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred Negroes from bearing arms for the

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Sammy Davis, Jr.

At age three Davis began performing in vaudeville with his father and uncle, Will Mastin, in the Will Mastin Trio. Davis studied tap dancing under Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson but never received a formal education. After serving in the U.S. Army he became the central figure of the

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Ice Cube Tweets About 'High Cost of Racism,' Says Black People Should Be Exempt from Paying Taxes

Ice Cube has been incredibly active on Twitter since George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month while in police

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For the first time, Clarence Thomas tells his story on television

Clarence Thomas, the famously silent jurist, tells his own life story in a new documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” which makes its national television debut May 18 on

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Boston Busing Case

Morgan v. Hennigan, 379 F. Supp. 410 (D.C. Mass., June

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Black History Month 2014

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DeSoto ISD Superintendent Speaks on Social Justice | Dallas Weekly

As an educator, I’ve seen our public education system fail at effectively ensuring that students not only learn core content at equitably rigorous levels, but also fail at helping students learn about the realities of race, class, privilege, and collective

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The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean

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Has privilege caused white supremacists to be crybabies?

And why are so many people refusing to wear masks, citing a violation of their First Amendment rights, as reported by CNN and

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BET Invites Trump And Biden to Face Black America In Juneteenth Forum | The Oklahoma Eagle

BET on Tuesday announced a programming series that will address systemic racism, the violence faced by Black people in America and solutions to help move the country

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Walker, Darren (1959– )

Philanthropist Darren Walker is the tenth president of the seventy-seven-year-old Ford Foundation, the second largest philanthropy in the world. Walker was born August 28, 1959, at a charity hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana, to a single mother and was raised in East Texas. He received two degrees

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Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand Make $100 Million Pledge to Social Justice Orgs

The NBA legend and the Jordan Brand released a joint statement explaining their commitment to helping ensure justice and

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George Floyd Protests: Resources To Help Anti-Police Brutality Protesters

Given the current nature of the country following the death of George Floyd, many Americans across the country took the streets in protest, to demand justice for Floyd as well as many other lives who have been victimized by police

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Blac Chyna Says NBC Wouldn’t Have Cancelled ‘Rob & Chyna’ If She Were White

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Mark Wahlberg Dropped Black Lives Matter Tweet, Black Twitter Reminds Everyone Of His Hate Crimes

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The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction

In the article below independent historian Kyle Haddad-Fonda describes the Asian-African Conference popularly known as the Bandung Conference which was the first significant gathering of independent and soon-to-be independent nations in Asia and

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The Power of Race and Inequality in Amerikkka: The Miseducation of a Poor Black Girl from the North Side

Other experiences such as being followed around stores as a customer, being pulled out of a car during a ‘traffic stop’ being asked “where are the drugs” before asking for identification, being pulled over for having tinted windows, being pulled over and asked “what are you doing out here” every

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Why do people say Afrobeats star Burna Boy is 'fake'?

What counts differently in the criticisms against Burna Boy is that he has for a while struggled to emerge from the shadows of Fela

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Baraka, Amiri amērē bərä´kə [key], 1934–2014, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as Everett LeRoy Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard Univ. In college he adopted the name LeRoi Jones. In the 1950s he moved to Greenwich Village, where he associated with writers

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Witherspoon Street Church (1836– )

Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On March 10, 1836, 90 out of 131former African American members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to form their own church. Nassau had

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Exonerated Five's Raymond Santana and reality star Deelishis marry

The Exonerated Five’s Raymond Santana and reality TV star Deelishis got married over the

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