More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina
When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking
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Organization of Afro-American Unity
The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was modeled on the Organisation of African Unity, which had impressed Malcolm X during his visit to Africa in April and May 1964. The purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the
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Trevor Noah's Answer To Wanna-Be-Woke Questions From White Pals: Blacklexa
"Helping your white friends so you don't have to!"
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White America, Let's Negotiate: What Do You Really Want?
Let me be PERFECTLY clear: BLACK PEOPLE in AMERICA are NOT going into 2021 under this duress. It is unsustainable. So I ask White America, what do you want?
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Camille Cosby Speaks Out After Pennsylvania Court Grants Appeal For Bill Cosby (Video) | The Oklahoma Eagle
www.vibe.com Mrs. Cosby slammed the Me Too movement, and defended her husband. Camille Cosby is speaking out in her first major interview in six years. The 76-year-old producer and wife of Bill Cosby talked to ABC News after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to review the case that led to
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Super-sized racism: former McDonalds execs strike back in explosive race | Atlanta Daily World
By Trevor Coleman and Trevor W. Coleman II For more than 50 years the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial diversity as a critical
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Hulus Removal Of A Golden Girls Episode With Blackface Gets Widely Panned
Black writers criticized the decision to scrap a 1988 show featuring two characters in mud masks as "counterproductive" and "stupid."
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3 North Carolina Cops Fired After Sergeant Comes Across Footage Of Them Talking About 'Slaughtering' Black People - Blavity
Three police officers in North Carolina were fired for comments about slaughtering Black people in a civil war.
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George Washington University professor pretended she was Black for over a decade - Face2Face Africa
An African-American history professor at George Washington University, Jessica Krug, confessed that she has been posing as a Black woman for over a decade even though she is in actual fact, Caucasian. Krug, 38, revealed in a post on Medium on Thursday that she had deceived friends and colleagues
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WARNING to Black Fathers | Afram News
We'd love to tell you Happy Father's Day, but in today's day and age, we feel the need to just say Congratulations, you've made it another year. In the words of Charles S. Dutton in the movie Menace 2 Society, the HUNT is on.
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Mercer, Mabel Alice Wadham (1900-1984)
Mabel Mercer was one of the most important jazz cabaret singers of the 20th Century. Her personal singing style emphasizing interpretation, diction, lyrics, and projection over vocal proficiency influenced numerous leading singers including Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Nat
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The City of Asheville Voted To Provide Reparations To Black Residents
The City Council of Asheville, North Carolina has voted to provide reparations to African American residents and their descendants.
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All My F--ing Career, Ive Felt Like To Black People, Im Not A Legitimate Black Person: Thandie Newton Speaks On Feeling Disenfranchised
In a recent interview, actress Thandie Newton did not hold back in regard to her experiences as a bi-racial woman working in Hollywood. She confessed to feeling disenfranchised, as she did not feel fully legitimized by the black community and at the same time, being mistreated by Hollywood because
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Did Robert F. Smith use Black America? - TheGrio
Robert F. Smith, the businessman, philanthropist and the wealthiest Black man in America, gained a great deal of attention and... View Article The post Did Robert F. Smith use Black America? appeared first on TheGrio.
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(1966) Stokely Carmichael, “Definitions of Black Power”
On July 31, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the newly appointed Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), describes black power to a mostly African American audience at Cobo Auditorium in Detroit.  Part of the address appears
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Black Woman Curses White People Having ‘Brick To Throw’ Amid Criticism Of ‘Ally’ Protestors
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Black Blues Singer Responds To Lawsuit From Country Band Lady Antebellum: ‘I’ve Been Quiet For Two Weeks’ - Blavity
Update (July 10, 2020): 
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CEO Of OkayAfrica And OkayPlayer Resigns Amid Allegations Of Verbal Abuse, Inappropriate Behavior, Manipulation And Other Claims
The CEO of OkayAfrica and Okayplayer, a music streaming and news publishing platform, has resigned after allegations of inappropriate behavior surfaced online this week. Questlove, the company's co-founder, announced the resignation of Abiola Oke in a statement on Instagram.
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African Americans Must Begin To Turn To Their Root – Prince Mackay - Ghanamma.com
will begin to respect African Americans.” He detailed that African Americans must realize and Africa is their home. “Until Black Americans begin to realise, appreciate, respect acknowledge the contributions of the Black American race to the development of
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Original Play About Dark Skin, Colorism & Darkism Comes to Pay-Per-View
In fact, there was no such thing as darkism, colorism or dark skin issues defined as a concrete and methodical platform before Rashida created
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Asheville, North Carolina, approves reparations for Black residents | New York Carib News
The city of Asheville, North Carolina, in a historic move, voted unanimously to approve a reparations resolution for Black residents Tuesday night.
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Commentary: A ‘dirty’ word?  | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Dr. E. Faye Williams (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Politics can be strange! Sometimes the analysis of a political campaign can raise as many questions as it answers. From discussion around the current Biden campaign we … Continued
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A Look Back At The Evolution Of Black Hair And The People Who’ve Shaped It
Slavery ends, but whites look upon black women who style their hair like white women as
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Michelle Obama Blames Her 'Low-Grade Depression' In Part On Donald Trump
The former first lady said on her new podcast that she's struggling with the "day in and day out" hypocrisy of Trump's administration.
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Could Racially Motivated 911 Calls Become Hate Crimes?
Both instances in which a white person called the
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Mayor: Officer Who Put Knee on Man’s Neck Should Be Charged
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis called Wednesday for criminal charges against the white police officer seen on video kneeling against the neck of a handcuffed black man who complained that he could not breathe and died in police
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The True Plight of African-Americans.
Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and
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Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to the utmost to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the
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Africa: Racism and Self-Hate - Why Africa Is Not Innocent
Just as it was an enabler of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, tribalism has also manifested in post-colonial Africa in the form of divisive, exclusionist, conflicting and destabilising politics of ethno-geographic identity, which has proven to be an anathema to the collective
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Nick Cannon Seeks Full Ownership of 'Wild 'N' Out' Amid His Firing By ViacomCBS Over ‘Hateful Speech’ Made In Podcast: 'I Will Not Be Bullied'
Nick Cannon has found himself in the hot seat with his employer, ViacomCBS. In a statement released to PEOPLE, the mass media corporation revealed that […]
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