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Taking Down Racist Episodes, Recasting Voice Roles Won’t Get At the Real Problems

Since last week, a growing number of beloved TV shows, like “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “Community” and “Scrubs,” have announced they’ll remove episodes or scenes in which characters wear blackface from online streaming and rental

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Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Mothers of the Movement Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act

Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of Black, Brown, Native, and Asian American people and have put up unnecessary roadblocks to the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Aunt Jemima Brand Retired Due to Racial Stereotype

NEW YORK (AP) — After more than 130 years, Aunt Jemima is being removed from packaging for syrup and pancake

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Source: Black America Web

Schuyler, Phillippa Duke (1931-1967)

Phillippa Duke Schuyler was a child pianist, composer, and later journalist. Schuyler, born August 2, 1931, grew up in Harlem, and was the only child of George S. Schuyler, a prominent black journalist, and Josephine Cogdell, a white Texan from a wealthy and socially prominent family. Her parents

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Documentary About White Privilege Hitting Record Numbers on Amazon | Afro

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED BY SON OF WHITE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST HITTING RECORD NUMBERS ON AMAZON

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Why Byron Allen’s Comcast Settlement Win Is an “L” for Black America – Voice and Viewpoint

Earlier this year, Allen’s legal challenge reached the United States Supreme Court to determine whether Allen could proceed with his civil action under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

What Have We Become?

There was a time when many Black people had hope and had reason to believe America had made progress on civil and human

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Ben Harper

Ben Harper is an American musician, known for his success as an artist, instrumental skills and social activism. He was born on October 28, 1969 as Benjamin Chase Harper to Leonard and Ellen-Chase Verdries in Pomona, California. His father was African American and his mother was Jewish. He came

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Humanitarian Disaster Institute Joins Healthcare Ready and World Impact to Create Free Resource for Church Leaders Advocating COVID-19

A new guide from the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College, created in partnership with Healthcare Ready and World Impact, provides a practical and Biblical resource to support the ministry of Black churches speaking and acting against racism while also protecting

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Protesters Circle The Fish Market Following Racial Incident

A family-run eatery in Prince George's County known for its seafood, service and house band, and a favorite among the local African-American community, now finds itself under fire after a reported racial incident between the owner and

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Source: The Washington Informer

Slave narrative

The slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. Some six thousand former slaves from North America and the Caribbean gave accounts of

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Michigan pastor says white woman coughed on him for not wearing mask

(credit: screenshot) A Michigan pastor says a white woman coughed in his face after he forgot his mask outside a pizza place and declares it be to an act of “racism.” Michael Hale Jr. told Fox 2 Detroit that he and his wife were waiting for their order outside of Belle Isle Pizza on

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Lil Baby's Song About Police Brutality and Fighting Racism Becomes His Highest-Charting Single

If chart positions have anything to do with it, Lil Baby‘s newly released “The Bigger Picture” could also be considered a classic protest rap song, because it landed at No. 3 on Billboard’s latest Hot 100

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French Olympic Committee denounces racist graffiti outside Sport Institute

PARIS, (Reuters) – The French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) has denounced racist graffiti that was found on Black athletes’ posters in front of the National Institute of Sport (INSEP) at the

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TikTok Is Helping Diverse Students Break Into Songwriting With a New Summer Songwriting Academy – The Black Chronicle

TikTok announced earlier this week that it is launching the Summer Songwriting Academy, a program to help students with less access to resources find the words and the platform to express the experiences and the inequalities of their

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Source: The Black Chronicle

A Black Mother Reflects On Giving Her 3 Sons 'The Talk' ... Again And Again

While the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, in addition to thousands of protests, have sparked new conversations across the country, one thing that's remained for many families is "the

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Source: Stories About Black History

'Rough Translation': The Controversial Dutch Character Black Pete

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR

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Kyle Korver: Privileged | The Oklahoma Eagle

Thabo and I were teammates on the Hawks, and we’d flown into New York late after a game in

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson was a highly renowned classical singer who became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. She was born on February 27, 1897 to John and Annie Anderson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father ran an ice and coal business and his mother was a babysitter. She

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Black Millennial Lawmaker Making Way in the Race to Unseat Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell

Charles Booker, who grew up in Kentucky, told The Grio that the poverty he experienced as a child was one of the main reasons he got into

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Detroit Cop SUV Plowed Through Protestors Because Of ‘Safety’ Concerns, Says Police Chief

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The MSR to host ‘Call To Action: We Are Not Okay’ Virtual Town...

African Americans and people of color are experiencing a pandemic within a pandemic as communities work to navigate a global health crisis while also facing system racism and

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week | The Atlanta Voice

On Tuesday, June 23 — the same day as New York state’s primary election — an image of the tweet supposedly posted by Ocasio-Cortez circulated rapidly on Twitter, Facebook and

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Kansas City Mayor Called N-Word In Text Saying He ‘Should Swing From A Tree’

That truth was on stunning display Monday in Kansas City, Missouri, after the mayor there revealed a series of racist text messages he received after issuing an order for everybody within city limits to wear a mask or face covering while out in

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Racism, Sexism and Those Who Serve | The Crusader Newspaper Group

For women and people of color in the military and the VA, there are large bodies of data, studies, surveys, and anecdotes about what is espoused and what is

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

NDERITU: How civil service has been ‘colonised’

In 2011 when I worked for the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), we published Kenya’s first ethnic audit of the civil service, which is the largest employer in the

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Source: The East African

12-year-old “I Just Wanna Live” singer Keedron Bryant signs record deal with Warner

Now, he’s landed a record deal with Warner Records and released his song as a single, according to The Associated

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Prepare for a Full Moon Near July 4 and Lessons of Venus Retrograde

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Juneteenth: A Day of Joy and Pain – and Now National Action | Afro

By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Too many African American children are born in shackles

Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist—often created by red-lining— worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job

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