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How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged: The Social Contract Is Broken

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones’ viral video, “How Can We Win.” Continue reading

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How textbooks taught white supremacy: African American history is American history

A historian steps back to the 1700s and shares what’s changed and what needs to change Source: The Harvard Gazette, by Liz Mineo, Harvard Staff Writer Historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at the Hutchins Center for African & African American … Continue reading

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This is Dylann Roof. He is white. He entered a church in South Carolina, SHOT and killed NINE people. Police arrested him without shooting him. Question: How come police had to shoot an unarmed Black man 7 times but could arrest a white Mass Murderer without firing a single shot? @realDonaldTrump

Police arrested Dylann Storm Roof (without shooting him) in the slayings of nine people at a prayer meeting inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dylann Roof, 21, was arrested in Shelby, North Carolina Eight people died at the … Continue reading

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The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See

The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told? Source: The New Yorker By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. June 19, 2020 … Continue reading

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You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument

Source: New York Times By Caroline Randall Williams Ms. Williams is a poet. June 26, 2020 NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If … Continue reading

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Wilmington´s Lie – The Wilmington Massacre: North Carolina, 1898: The Lost History of an American Coup D’État

Source: The Atlantic Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow. By the time the fire started, Alexander Manly had vanished. That didn’t stop the mob of 400 … Continue reading

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Playboy interview with John Wayne reveals racist and homophobic comments: “I believe in white supremacy”

Resurfaced Playboy interview with Hollywood icon John Wayne reveals racist and homophobic comments Source: vt. by: Emma Brazell A fairly shocking interview with John Wayne has resurfaced in which the actor makes numerous racist and homophobic comments. In 1971, the … Continue reading

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“The Sacred Right To Vote”: “WE HAVE COME TO REGISTER TO VOTE” – DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, ADDRESS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA MARCH FOR VOTING RIGHTS

Source: Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date: March 25, 1965 Location: Montgomery, Ala. Genre: Speech Topic: Birmingham, 1963 Montgomery Bus Boycott Nonviolence Voter registration … Continue reading

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Silence Is NOT An Option: Statement by Ben & Jerry’s About the George Floyd Murder by Police In Minneapolis: “All Of Us Are Outraged”

Source: Ben & Jerry´s All of us at Ben & Jerry’s are outraged about the murder of another Black person by Minneapolis police officers last week and the continued violent response by police against protestors. We have to speak out. … Continue reading

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‘The Lowest White Man’ by Charles M. Blow| New York Times OP-ED COLUMNIST

As an African-American, I know that it is an extremely rare occasion, when the truth about racial division and discrimination in the United States of America is so openly and eloquently, and most importantly, understandably, offered for public consumption, as … Continue reading

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