Chris Rock Whines That African Americans Are In ‘Abusive Relationship’ With White People

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Chris Rock Whines That African Americans Are In ‘Abusive Relationship’ With White People

Beloved comedian Chris Rock is now leaning into the race narrative that the left is using to divide America, reminding New York Times readers that, sure, African Americans are making progress, but in the same way that a housewife in an abusive marriage is making progress by not being beat by her husband anymore.

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Saint Peter Claver Church, San Antonio, Texas (1888- )

Saint Peter Claver (Mission) Church was the first AfricanAmerican Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas. The church was built by Irish-born Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, the widowof John Bernard Murphy, who was the mayor of Corpus Christi from 1889 to1884. Margaret Mary Healy Murphy movedfrom Corpus

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#StayWoke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Dangerous Times For African Americans | The Oklahoma Eagle

With the stress involved with shuttering in, loss of jobs, and other social pressures there has been a noticeable hike in racist incidents and police

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Till, Emmett Louis (1941-1955)

Emmett Till was a fourteen year-old African American boy who was tortured and killed in Money, Mississippi in 1955 after allegedly insulting a white woman. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Till lived with his mother, Mamie Till. His father, Louis Till, died while serving in the U.S. Army in Italy in

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Radicals of Color Speak Out Against Police Violence | Afro

Black women die at the hands of police and are sexually harassed and assaulted in devastating numbers by

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Edwards, Isaiah (1913-1994)

Isaiah Edwards was a community activist and advocate in Seattle’s Central Area. Isaiah Edwards and his wife, Marie, moved from Topeka, Kansas, to Seattle in 1942 to work at Boeing. Edwards worked for 40 years at Boeing as a maintenance dispatcher without missing a day, and also found time for

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Source: Black Past

Viral Videos Of Black Death Are The Gift And The Curse

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Amy Klobuchar, Who ‘Didn’t Prosecute Controversial Police Killings,’ Demands Justice For George Floyd

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HS Senior Letter to Editor After Officer’s Arrest in Murder of George Floyd | Afro

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Minnesota’s Black Newspapers Speak Out Amidst Uprising in Wake of Police Murder of George Floyd

People are upset and outraged, and folks are still protesting, and some folks take advantage of the protest,” stated Mel Reeves, editor of the Minnesota

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Benjamin Banneker Biography - Space/Astronomy

Benjamin Banneker was an African-American astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher who was instrumental in surveying the District of

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Oct

9

1806

African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska

African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska are central to the development and growth of the 43rd largest city in the United States.[citation needed] The first free black settler in the city arrived in 1854, the year the city was incorporated.[1] In 1894 black residents of Omaha organized the first fair

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Check Out More Than 20 Must-Read Books To Learn More About Black history, Racism And Social Justice – Free Press of Jacksonville

With the demonstrations on countless streets and the conversations taking place in countless homes, bookstores are now experiencing a surge of interest in books about Black history, racism and social

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Blackout Tuesday Reminded Me Why I Vowed To Buy Black Only

Still, I resolved to seek out a Black grocer, a Black-owned bank, a Black-owned home goods store, and of course, a Black-owned beauty supply store near

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Leader: A Biography

Known for her civil rights activism, Fannie Lou Hamer was called the spirit of the civil rights movement. Born a sharecropper, she worked from the age of six as a timekeeper on a cotton plantation. Later, she became involved in the Black Freedom Struggle and eventually moved on to become a field

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Oct

6

1917

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil

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(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference

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1867

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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Black Civil War guerilla chief

Probably the Souths most noted guerilla chief was a Black man named

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Jan

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1861

BREONNA TAYLOR WOULD HAVE TURNED 27 TODAY

Breonna Taylor, the woman who was shot and killed in her home by Louisville Metro Police on March 13th during a botched late-night raid, would have been 27-years-old

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Racial, political divide in Harris County on mail-in vote expansion amid COVID-19

“We found that a large number of voters – particularly Democrats, women, and persons over 65 – were reluctant to vote in person at a polling location on or before Election Day,” said Rice political scientist Bob

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Caravan For Justice: Cars Offer Socially Distanced Protesting During Pandemic

Protesters hold up signs during a caravan protest for justice in San Francisco on

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Source: Stories About Black History

Grant Chapel AME Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1883- )

GrantChapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was the first black church in NewMexico and was organized during the state’s territorial period. Although New Mexico Territory had a few slavesbefore the Civil War, African Americans began arriving in the region insignificant numbers after

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Source: Black Past

Quintard Taylor Presentations on Film or Videotape, 1975-2016

The following are video presentations of lectures I have given as the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American history from 2006 to the

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Source: Black Past

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial

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James Armistead Lafayette - African American Trailblazers

The African American Trailblazers honors the African American contribution to the American story and the significant accomplishments of twelve (12) heroic African Americans in areas such as the arts, sciences, politics, education, and

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Republicans Spending $20 Million To Help Prevent African Americans From Voting

The Republican effort, which is gaining steam, will recruit up to 50,000 volunteers in 15 states to monitor polling places and challenge ballots and voters deemed

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Portal:African American

African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are citizens of the United States who have total or partial antebellum ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.[1] Specifically, most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are

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Matthew McConaughey Asks Former NFL Player Emmanuel Acho How He Can ‘Do Better’ As A White Man

Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey put that very question to former NFL player Emmanuel

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept African Americans as me

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept African Americans as members.

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Oct

14

1958

Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society

In the article below Clarence Lang, an associate professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas describes his book, Grassroots at the Gateway which explores the changes in 20th Century St. Louiss political, economic, and social landscape and how those changes both

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