21 Books We Can’t Wait To Read In 2021

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21 Books We Can’t Wait To Read In 2021

Twenty twenty-first’s crop of beach reads, complex satires, self-help books, and personal essay collections are full of nuanced takes on the Black experience transporting readers from the swelter of Florida […]

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The BET Awards served as an extension of the voices of Black people protesting in the streets about the inequalities Black people face daily, as artists used their performances to highlight the Black Lives Matter movement, civil rights and the lives of those lost because of police

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Scott, Dred (1795-1858)

Dred Scott, was an enslaved person noted mainly for the unsuccessful lawsuit brought to free him from bondage. The decision rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 in the Dred Scott case, said that no blacks slave or free were U.S. citizens and allowed slavery in all U.S. territories. The

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Africa: COVID-19 Straw Breaks Free Trade Camel's Back

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The Right Side of History

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Mary Frances Berry

Mary Frances Berry , (born Feb. 17, 1938, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.), American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist whose public service included work in three presidential administrations. From 1980 to 2004 she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, serving as chairwoman from 1993

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SA's corruption fighters may be crippled as justice sector faces cash crunch over Covid-19

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Ex-NFL LB Emmanuel Acho Made Video to White People After George Floyd’s Death – Heres How It Went Viral Free Press of Jacksonville

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Man charged with threatening to torch African American church in Virginia

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Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West

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MAHERALI: Future jobs in Kenya are heading gig economy way

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Johnson, Charles (1948-- )

Writer and educator Charles Johnson is best known for his novel Middle Passage (1990), which earned a National Book Award for depicting the voyage of a newly-freed slave. He was the first African American to receive the award since 1953 when Ralph Ellison won for Invisible

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Abrahams, Peter (1919-- )

Twentieth century African novelist and journalist Peter Henry Abrahams was born in Vrededorp (near Johannesburg), South Africa, on March 19, 1919. Abrahams’ father, James Henry Abrahams Deras was the son of former Ethiopian landowners who had taken him across Europe before settling in South

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