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Susie Sumner Revels, a daughter of Hiram Revels, the first U.S. Senator of African descent, arrived in Seattle, Washington from Mississippi in 1896. Her reason, she stated, during a 1936 Washington Pioneers Project interview, was the man she was going to marry was here. He was Horace Roscoe
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Systemic racism exist even during a pandemic
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10 Famous African American Women You Should Know About
It is not untrue when they said it’s a men’s world. One hardly see equal ratio of man and woman, be it in a workplace setting, educational institute or sports. Men always tend to stay ahead of women throughout the history. Even in the twenty-first century we see a huge pay gap between two genders
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Rona Rumble: Black Man Cracks White Man Over The Head With A Bottle During Bar Brawl
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This Young Black Cancer Survivor Is On A Mission To ‘Legalize Melanin’
Nicole Bracey wanted to go beyond blame and move toward action so she created a t-shirt line to bring awareness to and eventually lend significant financial support to a variety of social justice causes.
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(1841) Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice"
Frederick Douglass would eventually become one of the most skilled and powerful orators of his day.  In 1841, three years after he escaped slavery and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34-year-old Douglass gave a brief speech on a situation he had not anticipated, racial prejudice in Northern
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Coronavirus, Which Already Hit African Americans The Hardest, Also Eliminated Black Job Gains
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Eddy Grant says it’s time to demand reparations
Guyanese singing star, Eddy Grant, has added his voice to the ongoing protests over the killing of an African-American man by a cop in the United States but says that while black lives have always mattered, it has only become fashionable because white people can now hang their own personal grouses
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Boston Afro-American Artists, Inc.
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Black Lives Matter Founder Finds Hope in Global Protests Over George Floyd’s Alleged Murder – Arizona Informant Newspaper
For Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza the global outpouring of protests and activism following the alleged murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody has been heartening and makes her hopeful for the
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Black Lives Matter President: “If U.S. doesn’t give us what we want then we will burn down this system”
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(1966) Stokely Carmichael, “Definitions of Black Power”
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