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My Mom and the Importance of Realizing that Black Lives Matters
By Hakim Abdul-Ali The recent protests events surrounding the May 25, 2020, killing of a brother of color named George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ignited national and worldwide alarming concerns to all morally sane “hue-mans’ ” senses of equal justice everywhere. I, too, felt disdain by this
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Source: The Charleston Chronicle
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A Video Of A White Woman Calling The Police On A Black Man In Central Park Goes Viral
A white woman has called the cops on a black man in Central Park after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The story went viral after he posted a video of her reaction online.
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Source: Stories About Black History
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A Look Back At The Evolution Of Black Hair And The People Who’ve Shaped It
Slavery ends, but whites look upon black women who style their hair like white women as
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Source: Black Then
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Black Ink Crew: Chicago Star Phor Brumfield Causes an Uproar After He Compares Black-on-Black Crime to BLM Movement
Black Ink Crew: Chicago actor Phor Brumfield is currently facing backlash for his recent remarks about the Black Lives Matter movement. The reality star reposted []
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THE BOGEYMAN IS HATRED | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Everyone has been lamenting how difficult the year 2020 has been and folks are looking forward to the New Year. Though this is understandable, there is no guarantee that the upcoming year will be better than the preceding one. In fact, it stands to get worse if we don’t resolve to look the bogeyman
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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group
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A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?
For proponents of capitalizing black, there are grammatical reasons — it refers to a specific group of people so it should be a proper noun, they say. But some see it as a moral issue as well. It confers a sense of power and respect to black people, who
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Source: Unpublished Black History
Rona Rumble: Black Man Cracks White Man Over The Head With A Bottle During Bar Brawl
Another day, some more white folks have lost their minds. A video is making its rounds on social media highlighting a bar brawl that took place on Saturday (Jun.27) at an Arkansas bar that started over social distancing, according to witnesses.
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Source: The Urban Daily
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Camille Cosby Speaks Out After Pennsylvania Court Grants Appeal For Bill Cosby (Video) | The Oklahoma Eagle
Mrs. Cosby slammed the Me Too movement, and defended her
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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle
Why Black Women Deserve A National Holiday - Blavity
It's time to honor Black women with a national holiday.
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Afro-Latin Americans
Afro-Latin Americans or Black Latin Americans refers to Latin American people of significant African ancestry. The term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America thought to have emanated from this
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Who Is Marcellis Stinnette? Waukegan Police Kill Black Teen Near Chicago
Marcellis Stinnette, an unarmed Black teen, was killed and his girlfriend was critically wounded in a police shooting in suburban Chicago that has prompted more questions than answers.
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Source: Black America Web
Single, childless and black
Society, especially African societies, are generally uneasy with the idea of adult men and women who, for whatever reason, never got married or have
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
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It’s Still About Economic Development, Not Burning America Down
From the days of Slavery, Black Power and Passive Resistance
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Source: The New Journal and Guide
Tina Lawson defends daughter Beyoncé against appropriation claims
Beyonce’s mother Tina Lawson had to get the haters right together this week over their criticism of Queen Bey’s new ‘Black Is King’ visual album.  The project, released July 31 on the Disney+ streaming service, is based on the songs from the 2019 album, “The Lion King.” As reported by
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Source: theGrio
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Megan Thee Stallion Uses 'SNL' Performance To Send A Message To Daniel Cameron And Demand Protection For Black Women - Blavity
Megan Thee Stallion didn't hold back during her first headlining Saturday Night Live performance. The singer was performing her hit song, "Savage", on Saturday when she demanded respect for Black women and slammed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron for his lack of leadership in
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Black America Should Be Exempt From Paying Taxes, Our Bill Is Already Paid
But now hip-hop mogul Ice Cube, 50, wants the IRS to exempt Black people from paying
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Source: The Black Chronicle
BLACK NAMED CHIEF SWEEPER
COLUMBUS, OHIO,--a BLACK MAN, Mr. Everette Spurlock, has been named superintendent of this citys street cleaning department. The negroe community is overjoyed that the city has finally recognized the dependability of its colored
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NBA commits $300 million to black communities | Atlanta Daily World
The NBA Board of Governors announced on this, the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, an unprecedented $300 million commitment for the newly created NBA Foundation “dedicated to creating … Continued
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The 'Hood Biologist' Is Deconstructing How Racism Perpetuates Health Disparities In Black Communities. Here's How. - Blavity
Educator and scholar Shay-Akil McLean is working to "decolonize" DNA.
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Open Season on African Americans | New Pittsburgh Courier
by E. Faye Williams (TriceEdneyWire.com)—I read with interest that our neighbors directly to the south, in Virginia, were experiencing an uptick in the numbers and presence of coyotes. Although dog-like … Continued
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A Pandemic Of Vanishing Black Wealth - The Seattle Medium
It should come as no surprise that a recession only exacerbates the already vicious patterns of low wealth for Black families. Yet, in an unprecedented twist of fate, never before seen in history, while we are still reeling from the economic losses of last decade’s Great Recession…here we go
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Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire , in full Aimé-Fernand-David Césaire (born June 26, 1913, Basse-Pointe, Mart.—died April 17, 2008, Fort-de-France), Martinican poet, playwright, and politician, who was cofounder with Léopold Sédar Senghor of Negritude, an influential movement to restore the cultural identity of
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OP-ED: Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — One major reason Black people suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s is we are underrepresented in dementia research, in part because many of us are unwilling to donate our brains to research or participate in brain studies due to distrust of the medical system. The good news is
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA
George Floyd’s death turned a tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional and systemic racism, into a bon fire of protest raging across America and the
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Source: The Florida Star
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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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Source: allAfrica.com
Commentary: A ‘dirty’ word?  | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Dr. E. Faye Williams (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Politics can be strange! Sometimes the analysis of a political campaign can raise as many questions as it answers. From discussion around the current Biden campaign we … Continued
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DeWine outlines several steps Ohio is taking to address health disparities in the Black community - African American News Today - EIN News
… life expectancy of African-American Ohioans is four years … to encourage more African-Americans and other minorities … help get more African-Americans involved in business ownership … health disparities among the African-American community and racial injustice …
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The Black Effect Podcast Network makes history by building its own - TSDMemphis.com
by Jay Conner - Much like the rest of the entertainment industry, despite all of the money and resources being thrown around, the wonderful world of podcasts is still very much a game of have and have nots – especially for Black creatives. Joe Budden’s exodus from Spotify highlights how Black
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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com
WARNING to Black Fathers
They are hunting Black men and killing them for sport, it
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Why Black People Are The ‘Soul’ Of America - Blavity
Joe Biden ran on the idea that we needed to "restore the soul of America". America's soul has never been in need of restoration because Black people are America's soul, and we're intact.
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