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By Jared D. Childress | Special to the OBSERVER After being removed in December, allegedly for performing a basketball move where he “softly” bounced a ball off a student's head […] The post Black Teacher Says He Doesn’t Feel Safe After Being Suspended For A Basketball Move appe
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U.S. Black Chamber Prez Talks Loss of African American Businesses and a Global Future for the Black Dollar
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Data culled from multiple studies revealed that Latinx business owners fell by 32 percent and Asian business owners dropped by 26 percent. Meanwhile, the number of White business owners fell by 17 percent. While the current climate has exacerbated the wealth gap and unveiled the
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Gloria Clark Jackson Recounts The Murder Of Her Brother Mark Clark and Fred Hampton
By Victor Omondi Gloria Mark Clark narrates the horrific events of the night when her brother, Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, were killed. Mark Clark was born in 1947 in Peoria, Illinois, a distance of about one hundred and seventy miles south of Chicago. Around this time, white supremacy had
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African American Museum & Cultural Center in the Works
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On June 12, the community is invited out to an AfroNoon celebration at White Park in downtown Riverside at Market and 9th Street. The artist village event features a mini-museum and Charles Bibbs along with local regional and national artists, among top-level sponsors IEHP and the
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“We Keep Us Safe:” Black August Celebrates Past, Present Freedom Fighters   | The Michigan Chronicle
Local organizer Ashley Daniels believes in justice for the people, by the people.  Photo courtesy of Michigan Liberation       What does Black August mean to you?   The annual holiday, Black August, is commemorated yearly to honor the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to put
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The Black August Film Festival Mirrors Our ‘Mood of Militancy’
By Nadira Jamerson | Word In Black (WIB) - Filmmaker Dennis Haywood believes in self-discipline. When I spoke to him, he was on his third day of fasting in support […] The post The Black August Film Festival Mirrors Our ‘Mood of Militancy’ appeared first on The Sacramento Observ
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Though Thousands of Miles Away, Tyre Nichols’ Death Affected Oaklanders | Post News Group
Like many other cities nationwide, Oakland was heavily impacted by Tyre Nichols’ death on January 10 in Memphis, Tenn., three days after being brutally beaten by multiple police officers. The officers allegedly pulled Nichols over for reckless driving. What followed was revealed on January 27 when
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Professor and Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver – Quote on Women Freedom Fighters (LISTEN)
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Black Panther Party Co-Founder Huey P. Newton Was Murdered Today In 1989
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Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz, Former Black Liberation Army Soldier And Prison Abolitionist, Dies At 78
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Celebrating the women of the British Black Panther Movement | Natalie Joseph
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California Judge Rejects Police Officers’ Harassment Claim Over BLM Mural Depicting Assata Shakur
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Teyana Taylor Directs Powerful Protest Video of Her New Single “Still” (WATCH)
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Let’s not forget Zulu! - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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Black students in Washington state played key role in the Civil Rights Movement, new book states | New Pittsburgh Courier
A protest led by the Black Student Union at the University of Washington at Seattle, 1968. Emile Pitre Collection by Marc Arsell Robinson, California State University, San Bernardino When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that
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Though Thousands of Miles Away, Tyre Nichols’ Death Affected Oaklanders
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Black Panthers Championed Testing, Education
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