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Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’
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Nance Legins-Costley, 1st Slave Freed By Abraham Lincoln – 20 Years Before The Civil War
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L’Oreal Re-Hires Model After Being Fired For Speaking Up Against Racism
In 2017, a Black model for L’Oreal named Munroe Bergdorf was fired for speaking up about systemic racism while under
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Civil Rights Groups Ask Advertisers To Stop Buying Facebook Ads In July
Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its
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Cut your hair or else: Trinidad Airports Authority constable claims discrimination
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The ball is in Vikings’ court!
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Latest US monuments toppled: Grant, national anthem writer | The Atlanta Voice
Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America’s national anthem and the general who won the country’s Civil War which ended widespread
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Looters, Lowlifes, and Liars
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Brother Malcolm’s Message to “Sincere Whites”
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Billy Porter speaks up for Black LGBTQ: ‘Our lives matter too’
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Shaun King: 'Statues of the White European They Claim is Jesus Should Also Come Down'
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Joe, Dems, and drinkin’ the progressive missionary Kool-Aide!
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Governor to retire Mississippi's Confederate-themed flag
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