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Fear of a Black President

Fear of Black President

Ta-Nehisi Coates examines the fine line walked by Barack Obama–and others– to find their identities as multiracial people.

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This Day in Black History: Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers is Born

Medgar Evers

We celebrate the birthday of Medgar Evers, a man’s whose death was one of the catalysts for the Civil Right Movement

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Bibliography – One Hundred Years Of Jim Crow

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If you want to dig deeper into the issues of the Jim Crow era, this extensive bibliography will get you started.

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Black Fashion Designer Claims Luxury Brand Balenciaga ‘Borrowed’ His Design

Fashioned designer Lamont Stapleton is the latest Black creator to discover that someone else has stolen his ideas to turn a profit.

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Court rules Harvard can be sued for distress over slave photos

This case sets the precedent for the right of descendants of slaves to compensation for distress caused by using photos of their ancestors

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Pioneering Black educator’s statue to replace Confederate statue at the Capitol

By Kynala Phillips, NBC News The statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, a civil rights activist born to former slaves, will represent Florida in the National Statuary Hall Collection, starting in…

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Two Iconic Writers Join Howard U. to Help Educate the Next Generation of Black Journalists

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Howard alumnus Ta-Nehisi Coates will join the faculty of HBCU Howard University.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – King Leopold statues removed in Belgium

Introduction To This Series: This post is one installment in an ongoing news series: a “living history” of the current national and international uprising for justice. Today’s movement descends directly…

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Parkland Teen Kyle Kashuv, Former Turning Point USA Member, Apologizes For Racist Slurs

Harvard rescinds the admission decision of Kyle Kashuv, a student who was affected by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, due to racist remark he made just months before the incident. Some say that the Ivy-League school has gone too far but the majority agree with the university’s decision. An apology is not enough to repair the damage of his actions and the years of history he chose to ignore.

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John McEnroe, Serena Williams and the Erasure of Black Female Excellence

Serena Williams, one of the greatest female tennis players of all time, receives backlash from male tennis player, John McEnroe, not because of her talents or lack thereof, but because she is black and a female, but somehow she still comes out on top.

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