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By LaShawn Gooden, PhD Candidate The Mary Ellen Strong Foundation strives to support African American mental health providers. In addition to contributing to the development of the next generation of psychotherapists, MESF is also devoted to supporting therapists currently working to heal
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Chavis: Its past time for US healthcare system to protect Black Americans | The Atlanta Voice
Today, Americans are facing unprecedented times. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, our country has fallen into an economic recession, and hundreds of thousands are protesting police brutality and racial injustice. But there is another epidemic in this country that must be addressed, and it
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How Some Mothers Enable Their Problematic Sons
Have you ever looked at a deeply problematic male and wondered how he got so far gone? While, at some point, adults have to take responsibility for their actions, we'd be remiss if we didn't acknowledge the role that some parents play in the molding and enabling of these individuals.
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Trump Administration Officials to Black America: 'Coronavirus Pandemic is Your Fault' | BlackPressUSA
NNPA — In a CNN interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar attributed the high coronavirus death rate to unhealthy African Americans. Azar claimed that Black and minority communities have higher comorbidities like underlying health issues. "Unfortunately, the American population is
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Are Jews Obligated to Support Reparations for African-Americans? - African American News Today - EIN News
the killing of an African-American man by a Minneapolis continue to promote poverty among African-Americans, which can’t be economic practices that hurt African-Americans even after the triumph —like Terry Crews, the African-American host of the “America’
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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer
Black Lives Matter activists have made their point and won millions of converts since May
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I Tried Energy Healing To Get Rid Of The Toxicity In My Life
I realized I had issues, issues about a year ago when I was on my therapist's couch and she asked me if I was thinking about harming myself. I've been seeing her for the past 10 years, and she's helped me navigate through toxic environments---some I was born into and some I've created myself.
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(1884) William H. Crogman, “Negro Education: Its Helps and Hindrances”
? William Henry Crogman, a native of the West Indian island of St. Martin, was educated at Pierce Academy in Massachusetts immediately after the Civil War. In 1868 he was named to the English faculty of newly organized Claflin College in South Carolina. By 1870 Crogman returned to college, ente
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Castrated Black Leaders.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Provides Scholarships For George Floyd’s Family To Attend HBCUs
Photo: Stephen Jackson Kappa Alpha Sorority announced on Friday that the organization founded on the campus of Howard University by Black collegiate women will provide scholarships to the daughter and granddaughters of George Floyd to attend an HBCU of their
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Shelby County officially ill with the pandemic of racism
The measure, written by Commissioner Tami Sawyer, spells out that the purpose of declaring race a pandemic is to “unequivocally defend minorities and enact polices that eradicate the effects of systemic racism affecting Black people, and other minorities, throughout Shelby
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Shape The Culture to host Unity Rally in Kelly Ingram Park
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During the first quarter of the 20th century George W. Forbes (1864-1927) was an important journalist for national race politics. From 1893 to 1903, he edited the Boston Courant, one of Boston's early Black newspapers. He helped start the Boston Guardian, founded and published by William M. Trotter
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Fax, Elton (1909-1993)
Elton Clay Fax, a prolific African-American cartoonist, author, and illustrator, was born on October 9, 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Mark Oakland Fax, a clerk, and Willie Estelle Fax, a seamstress. Elton’s younger brother, Mark, was a music prodigy who worked as a composer later
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Netflix to shift $100 million in cash into Black-owned banks - DefenderNetwork.com
Netflix Inc. will shift as much as $100 million to lenders that serve the Black community, making it the largest company yet to pledge cash to historically underfunded financial institutions. The online TV giant will start by shifting $25 million into the Black Economic Development
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TIME FOR REAL CHANGE IN BLACK AMERICA | The Crusader Newspaper Group
It is time to face facts: the relationship between Black people and the United States of America is at a crossroads. The past couple of months have revealed a festering wound in race relations that needs more than a band aid solution; real change must happen. Juneteenth was recently
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OP-ED: Joe Biden Attacks Freethinking Black Americans while President Trump Empowers Them
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The Black Card: We Are Not Disposable, We Are Essential
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TSU analysts: Harris VP selection likely to power two-pronged boost | New Pittsburgh Courier
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What have we become with Trump? – Daytona Times
I remember Dick Gregory frequently saying to me, “Don’t you know when a man like Donald Trump and his people put on MAGA hats and talk about making America great again, they’re acting like America once was great.” I look around me and see a few Black and Brown people that have been treated fairly
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#TakeBack Essence- A Long-standing Pattern of the Mistreatment of its Black Female Employees | Chicago Defender
“Essence magazine is failing Black America. When Black media companies become unstable, it triggers the instability of the entire culture. Black women and men have long depended on Black-owned media outlets to service them with cultural identity, cultural memory, purpose, and economic
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Why A D.C. Catholic Priest Organized A Prayerful Protest For Black Lives
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Teyana Taylor Remembers The Night She Got Pregnant: It Was Going Down, I Felt It
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Rose: Its time we discuss the truth about Stone Mountain, other racist monuments | The Atlanta Voice
Using the Braves, Indians, and Redskins as the names of professional sports teams should be joined with the ranks of the existence of Atlanta Crackers and Atlanta Black Crackers as former team names.  Northern and western colleges and universities have abandoned racist mascots but the University of
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