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Make Ghana pan-African again
The 8 minute, 46 second cell phone video shot by a bystander of George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis…
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Protests over Floyd’s death expose raw race relations worldwide
By Anthony Deutsch and Ingrid MelanderAMSTERDAM/MADRID (Reuters) - Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African-American…
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Atlanta Mayor Calls Ahmaud Arbery Shooting a ‘Lynching’ and Blames ‘White House Rhetoric’ for Emboldening Racists
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms joined the chorus of nationwide outrage about the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Sunday, saying that…
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The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision that bodes ill for the future of civil rights
Like most of the country, the Supreme Court is in coronavirus lockdown, closing its building to the public and postponing…
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Black British
Black British people are British citizens of either Black African background, or of Black African-Caribbean background and include people with…
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African Americans
African Americans or Black Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the…
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Black genocide
In the United States, black genocide refers to the genocide of African Americans both in the past and in the…
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Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity) is a cultural ideology or worldview mostly limited to the United States that focuses on the history…
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How a drive through rural Kentucky led to a forgotten part of black history
Thousands of African Americans, some of them horse racing pioneers, were buried in the cemetery without headstones.
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Shirley Ann Jackson, An African Physicist Of Many Firsts
After earning her Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics, Jackson spent several years of postdoctoral research at various labs across…
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Meet Disney’s First African-American Animator, Floyd Norman
If no one ever told you no, would you think to limit yourself? Floyd Norman's peers were surprised when he…
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The Shocking Lynching of Will Brown 100 Years Ago
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the…
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Blacks, Native Americans and Whites: A Tale of Three Peoples
As European settlements inched west, Black, white and Native Americans, fleeing forced labour within their confines, melted into the interior…
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Omaha race riot of 1919
The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; the death of…
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NAACP calls to move slave auction block from city's downtown
A controversial slave auction block at the corner of William and Charles streets in downtown Fredericksburg has haunted many of…
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