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A Juneteenth like none other
While Juneteenth has always been celebrated in Black communities, this year's festivities had a different feel. Source
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Camille Cosby Goes Full Tin Foil Hat, Capes For Pill Cosby & Says #MeToo Movement Is Racist
In a new interview, the wife of beleaguered comedian and entertainer Bill Cosby broke her silence and shared that she's on board with an upcoming appeal for her husband's sexual assault conviction.
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#BLM, Africa and black identity: After protests, what next? - Face2Face Africa
A fortnight of protests worldwide in the wake of the gruesome extrajudicial killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could not have been predicted by the most sophisticated minds in political thought and history. This was not due to a lack of foresight. In fairness, the misdiagnoses ironically
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A debate over identity and race asks, are African Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’? - African American News Today - EIN News
who popularised the term “African American” in an effort to the African slave trade. African American acknowledges that. Any term she wrote, was whether African Americans needed a new label Jackson’s campaign brought African American into popular use in
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Black Lives Matter Founder Finds Hope in Global Protests Over George Floyd’s Alleged Murder Arizona Informant Newspaper
By Gail Berkley, The Sun Reporter For Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza the global outpouring of protests and activism following the alleged murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody has been heartening and makes her hopeful for the future. At the same time, she
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Pressure Season: Rasheeda Frost Flaunts Her Latest Fashion Look While Uplifting Black Women
“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” fashionista Rasheeda Frost knows how to dress from head to toe, and that’s expected of her as a fashion business owner. The
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Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns - Houston Forward Times
As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in The post Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns appeared first on Houston Forward Times.
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Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests
In this article, I examine the ways technology is deployed by law enforcement through my MBA studies and personal experience with the police.
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Quit Playin’: The Warrior ModelRally v. Protest
By Vincent L. Hall “They spit on your flag and government/Cause help the black was a concept never meant/Nigga please, food stamps and free cheese/ Can’t be the cure for a sick disease” – Paris “The Devil Made Me Do It” The televised police execution of George Floyd was a seminal moment in American
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Milwaukee County Passes Ordinance To Advance Racial Equity And Improve Health Outcomes
Milwaukee County leaders commit to eliminating institutional racism by addressing County polices, practices and power structures through a racial equity lens On April 29 Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele with Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson, County Executive-elect David
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Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns Voice and Viewpoint
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a new study reveals that many companies’ actual policies and practices
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Black People More Likely Than Whites and Latinos to Know Someone Who Died from COVID-19
A recent poll determined Black Americans are more likely to know someone who died from COVID-19 compared to white and Latino people. A Washington Post-Ipsos []
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The Massacre That Destroyed Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’
being held. A group of African-Americans, many of them soldiers returned a huge segment in the African-American community that has been advocating
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Community Reflections on Justice for George Floyd and the 2020 I Can’t Breath Rebellion - Los Angeles Sentinel
The City of Los Angeles hasn’t dealt with this much commotion since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots when LAPD officers brutally beat Rodney King. Unfortunately, with white nationalist on the rise, more savage police misconduct is being reported in record breaking numbers throughout the United States. On
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Soul of a Nation opens at MFAH June 27 - DefenderNetwork.com
During a time when the nation is under racial duress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is preparing to display Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” in record time. The landmark exhibition, which explores what it meant to be an African American artist during the 1960s and
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A Black Man Was Killed And I Still Went To Work
How am I supposed to navigate the professional world in the middle of a race war?Continue reading on ZORA »
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3 Ways To Begin Healing From Racial Traumatic Stress
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Ex-NFL LB Emmanuel Acho Made Video to White People After George Floyd’s Death – Heres How It Went Viral Free Press of Jacksonville
By Jori Epstein Emmanuel Acho was too nervous to eat breakfast Sunday. For four days, the former NFL linebacker had carefully crafted his next step. My white brothers and sisters, he implored via social media [...]
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California State Capitol Goes Black … Red and Green to Mark Juneteenth Voice and Viewpoint
Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media As California goes, so does the nation. You’ve probably heard that cliché many times before. It certainly rings true for Juneteenth. The state of California started recognizing Juneteenth or Black “Freedom Day,” marking the emancipation of enslaved
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Zendaya Is Over the Boxer Braids Chatter in White Media
Braids are nothing new to Black women.
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WORLD Channel Continues its Celebration of Pride Month with a Film looking at Young LGBT Asylum Seekers | BlackPressUSA
To close out WORLD Channel’s celebration of Pride Month, Director Rodney Evans' documentary Vision Portraits debuts June 30. Best known for his films Brother to Brother (2004) and The Happy Sad (2013), in Vision Portraits, Evans takes viewers on a personal journey as he profiles three blind or
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Mississippi official: Black people ‘dependent’ since slavery By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After rejecting a proposal to move a Confederate monument, a white elected official in Mississippi said this week that African Americans “became dependent” during slavery and as a result, have
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Black Wet Nurses And The Negative Connotations That Surrounds Them
By Marissa Johnson When someone thinks of a black wet nurse, they don’t think of the ideal of a nurturing maternal figure. Rather, the modern black woman thinks of the idea of being a nurse or even of the notion of breastfeeding in general as evoking a visceral reaction akin to swallowing spoiled
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Why news organizations’ move to capitalize ‘Black’ is a win - African American News Today - EIN News
American” to “black” and “African American.” And those are just the dignified than “black.” But African American does not account for there is not uniformity among black Americans about black vs. Black over the treatment of black Americans in the wake of
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Could Racially Motivated 911 Calls Become Hate Crimes?
(CALMATTERS) Barbecuing at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Selling water without a permit. Both instances in which a Black person was doing something deemed criminal by a white person. Both instances in which a white person called the police.  Now, as racial tensions continue to flare as the nation
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Black and Celebrating Red, White, and Blue? | Chicago Defender
Thursday, July 4, 1776, marks the day where America first celebrated its independence. In 1941 it was declared a federal holiday. Since then, the Fourth of July has been a day where families gather to celebrate, laborers across the nation are given the day off from work for observance, and
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Source: Chicago Defender
Believe Black Patients: The Fight For Equal And Fair Healthcare Treatment - Blavity
Medical practices and physicians have a historically violent relationship with Black bodies. When we speak of reform, we need to include healthcare as well.
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Social Media Unites Celebrities and Common Users to Fight for the End of Police Brutality, Racism, and Injustice Against Black Lives - Los Angeles Sentinel
In this day and age, society has built a system and a niche economy within the world of social media. One that produces everyday influencers and brings everyone closer to their favorite celebrities. This same structure is now a change agent in the fight for Black
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Californians Join the Movement for Justice as Civil Unrest Escalates Nationally - Black Voice News
Protest in Minneapolis, MN (Photo by Lorie Shaull / Flickr) Tensions are high across the nation as Americans of all races rise in protest against the killings of Black people by the police and other vigilantes .  In recent days protesters have gathered in cities across the country braving threats
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What A 1968 Report Tells Us About The Persistence Of Racial Inequality : Planet Money : NPR
Despite political and social progress, African Americans still lag far behind economically.
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