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AMC Theatres Apologizes After Group Racially Profiled During ‘Harriet’ Screening

A Black women’s non-profit organization faced racial profiling at a screening of the film Harriet earlier this month.

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What’s Lost When Black Children Are Socialized Into a White World

Black student disciplinary actions and suspensions for age appropriate behavior can be a problem in schools where “obedience and hierarchy” are valued and enforced.

Long Island Divided

A ground breaking investigation into discrimination by real estate agents on Long Island reveals rampant misconduct and a system meant to disadvantage minority buyers.

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Childhood trauma in the U.S. is a ‘public health crisis’

A new study on childhood trauma provides compelling evidence for why childhood trauma should be a focus of Milwaukee and the country.

November is Native American Heritage Month…

A recent White House proclamation is stirring controversy as the Trump Administration once again slights Native Americans.

Donald Trump’s ‘Lynching’

In the wake of another infuriating Tweet from President Trump, Jamelle Bouie brings both the content of the Tweet and one of its biggest defendants into the larger context of racial violence.

“Always in Season” by ABHM Friend Jackie Olive Screens at MKE Film Fest

ABHM is excited to share that the film Always in Season from Director Jacqueline Olive will be a part of the Milwaukee Film Festival later this month.

Black No More?

Are descendants of slaves in America allowed to “construct our their identity” or at the fate of white supremacy? Can we unlearn “Race?” Thomas Chatterston Williams says we should be about doing just that! Unlearning race.

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Biological Weathering and Its Deadly Effect on Black Mothers

Racism is found to be a major factor in the high death rates and instances of chronic diseases in the Black community. This racism, in the form of Biological Weathering, can also have “deadly” effects on mothers before, during and after childbirth.

Black boyhood often ends prematurely because of racial profiling. (Fran Polito/Getty Images)

Racial Profiling and the Loss of Black Boyhood

Racial profiling continues to be a problem for Black and Brown people. Congress can and must address this issue and one way to do that is to pass the End Racial Profiling Act.

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Olympics to Finally Give Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos Their Props by Inducting Them Into Hall of Fame

51 year after their expulsion from the 1968 games, the US Olympic Hall of Fame is welcoming Tommie Smith and John Carlos into its ranks.

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My father was IBM’s first black software engineer. The racism he fought persists in the high-tech world today

Stanley W Ford was hired in 1946 as a software engineer at IBM. When his son Clyde followed in his footsteps more than twenty years later, the same mentality that had supported “eugenics, Nazism and apartheid”was
and still is prevalent in the high field today.

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How For-Profit Colleges Have Targeted and Taken Advantage of Black Students

Predatory lending by for-profit-colleges target black students resulting in 78% of students with educational loan debts.

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The Lost Promise of Reconstruction

Eric Foner draws parallels between our tense political climate and the end of the Reconstruction Age, overviewing the backward steps our country has taken as we move further from the promises of Reconstruction.

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“Christian Race” Venue Won’t Do Mixed Race Weddings

An event venue employee saying they won’t host mixed race or gay weddings because of her Christian religious beliefs has gone viral, sparking an uproar on social media.

ABHM Welcomes Its New President and CEO on 9/3/19!

Milwaukee, WI — The Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert “Bert” Davis has been selected as the new President and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum.  He will be stepping into his new role on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Dr. Davis assumes leadership on the eve of the re-opening…

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Fighting Racism…Especially Where We Don’t Realize It Exists

In his new book, award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi “pushes those of us who believe we are not racists to become something else: antiracists, who support ideas and policies affirming that “the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences — that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.” A book review by historian Jeffrey C, Stewart.

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Byron Allen on the 400th Anniversary Of Slavery In America

Reconstruction law meant to protect civil rights of black businesses is being challenged by Trump DOJ in the Supreme Court.

Black Rag Dolls Designed to Be Abused Pulled From Store Shelves in New Jersey

Learn how to physically abuse children early by practicing on a Black Rag Doll.

The Great Land Robbery

The loss of millions of acres of land by black families is a historical fact and a present danger. Some federal, state and local agencies continue to make money available to white applicants while denying money to black applicants resulting in land loss.

Toni Morrison obituary

Toni Morrison was sometimes criticized for not writing about white people (she denied this), and she made no apologies for writing for “black people.” She wrote the stories that she wanted to read, because no one else was writing them.