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Taking Weed to the Deep South
Blounts & Moore want African American communities to have access to generational wealth — and they think cannabis is the…
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Baby Shower becomes Tragic as Police raid turns fatal
It was just a few days before her baby shower, and Sara White was bleeding inside a garage. When police…
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Alfredo Bowman
Alfredo D. Bowman, better known as Dr. Sebi, was a Honduran vegetarian herbalist, healer, pathologist, biochemist, and naturalist of holistic…
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Prada Is the Latest Perpetrator to Peddle Blackface
Here we are, on the cusp of 2019, and major retailers are still playing dumb about racial stereotypes and caricatures.…
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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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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
A larger-than-life bronze bust of Christopher Columbus surveys Pueblo, Colorado, from atop a 15-foot limestone column. The monument, designed by…
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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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Regime Change in Charlottesville
If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.…
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America is hooked on the drug of white supremacy. We're paying for that today
The United States is in a tailspin. White supremacists are on the march – and have left a trail of…
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A Wake Up Call – There Are No Successful Black Nations
And the indignity and helplessness of blacks in America won’t end until we have a first-world African nation to lift…
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As the U.S. gets more involved in Somalia, beware these three fallacies
The United States is getting more involved in Somalia, the nation in the Horn of Africa that has been wrestling…
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‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the…
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
A larger-than-life bronze bust of Christopher Columbus surveys Pueblo, Colorado, from atop a 15-foot limestone column. The monument, designed by…
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