What Is The Black Holocaust?

The four hundred-year history of captured Africans and their descendants has many similarities with the Holocaust experiences of European Jews – and other victims of mass atrocities. This exhibit explains those similarities and the reasons that ABHM’s founder believed it important to use the term “holocaust” in its title.

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Lil Wayne, Emmett Till Backlash: Rapper Faces Scrutiny Over Rap Lyric

From the Huffington Post, Black Voices [T]he Grammy Award-winner is making headlines once again for his cameo on Future’s recently leaked track titled, “Karate Chop.” The song which is set to appear this weekend on DJ Smallz’s upcoming mixtape “This Is That Southern Smoke Vol. 4,” finds the New Orleans native making an explicit reference to…

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Film ‘Lincoln’ inspires Mississippi to officially ban slavery

By Sarah Muller, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC.com The Oscar-nominated film Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field details the political maneuvering behind the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. But a century and a half after President Abraham Lincoln’s death, Lincoln is still fighting to end slavery. In 1865, the 13th…

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Scholars sketch bleak economic picture for black Americans

By Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post Scholars gathered for the African American Economic Summit at Howard University on Friday sketched an alarming picture of the financial ills afflicting the black community even as the nation recovers from the recession. The white-black wealth disparity is more than 20 to 1. Black homeownership has declined. Black…

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Elmer Jackson – Working Man, Beloved Son and Brother

Warren Read, great-grandson of one of the Duluth lynchers, and author of The Lyncher in Me, provides information about Mr. Jackson’s life. Mr. Read did extensive research about the victims and searched for their relatives. He was able to meet Elmer Jackson’s relatives.

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Texas Forces Voters to Prove They’re Alive

By theRoot.com After courts twice cited the Voting Rights Act in rulings that blocked Texas voter-ID laws on the grounds that they were discriminatory, proponents of such efforts have recently begun executing a new strategy: requiring voters to submit written verification that they are alive before arriving at the polls. The strategy is part of a 2011…

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