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Alondra Cano, a City Council member, speaks during The Path Forward meeting at Powderhorn Park on June 7, 2020, in Minneapolis. Alondra Cano, a City Council member, speaks during “The Path Forward” meeting at Powderhorn Park on June 7, 2020, in Minneapolis.
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At least seven Minneapolis police officers have quit and another seven are in the process of resigning, citing a lack of support from department and city leaders as protests over George Floyd’s death escalated.

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Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 82: Who was history’s wealthiest person?

Mansa Musa was emperor of the West African kingdom of Mali in its golden years between 1312 and 1337 A.D. He became something of an international celebrity in 1324 (the year Marco Polo died) when he made the 3,000 mile, nine-month pilgrimage to Mecca, accompanied by 60,000 porters in a caravan of 80 camels, each carrying 300 pounds of gold. In fact, according to a new inflation-adjusted list compiled by CelebrityNetwort

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More than 15 years ago, one of the theologians on this list—Bruce L. Fields—asked the question: What can black theology teach the evangelical church?

Protestant leaders in the US have been asking a similar question since black theology began gaining momentum 50 years ago. Writers in Christianity Today’s own pages discussed African American leaders’ necessary work in dismantling white superiority in the America

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Year after year, Black History Month continues to serve as an observance and time of reflection on all that the African-American community has contributed to the history of the United States.

According to Franklin Hairston, chairman of the West Virginia Black Heritage Festival’s Scholarship Committee, the impact of Black History Month can be traced back to one of his favorite quotes by Carter G. Woodson.

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished, they lose inspir

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A historical marker stands on the former campus of Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, N.C., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. The campus is now home to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The president of Wake Forest University issued a public apology Thursday for the institution’s past involvement in slavery.

President Nathan Hatch’s apology, delivered in a speech during the school’s Founders’ Day ceremonies, comes after a series of event

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From Sorella Magazine

This thought-provoking essay on colorism and identity comes from the publication Sorella Magazine aptly titled: Words From A Black Girl Who Used To Wish She Were White.

DEAR BLACK GIRL,

It’s not easy being you. Trust me, I know, because it’s not easy being me. I haven’t spent a second in your shoes, and you probably couldn’t even pick me out of a crowd, though someone somewhere might mistake us for sisters. And they wouldn’t be too far off.

As Black women, we share the sam

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BGN spoke with Harriet actors Jennifer Nettles (Eliza) and Joe Alwyn (Gideon) about their pivotal and dark roles as mother and son plantation owners.

Harriet is Jennifer’s first feature role and Joe, a Brit, was new to this very American story. During an intimate interview at TIFF, we discussed topics from process to passion in relation to how they approached and were affected by these emotional and challenging roles.  

Roles in films always affect actors in one way or another. How ha
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Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes and his wife and Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Malik Jackson have offered to pay for the funeral of a Fort Worth, Texas, woman who was killed in her home by a police officer last week.

Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was taking care of her 8-year-old nephew Saturday when a police officer making a wellness check fired through the window of her home and killed her. The officer was responding to a call about an open door at the residence.

“My wife and I wan

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School segregation was the law of the land in the U.S. during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Who was the first black child to go to an integrated school? – Makena T., age 12, Washington, D.C.


When people think about the time when black people first began to integrate America’s public schools, often they think back to the 1960s.

But history shows the first court-ordered school integration case took place a hundred years earlier, in the 1860s.

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9 BOOKS ON SLAVE UPRISINGS

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1. SLAVE UPRISINGS AND RUNAWAYS: FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BY ANN E. ESKRIDGE

A chronicle of the work of the abolitionists, the slave uprising that put pressure on the government, and the work of the underground railroad.

2. THE BLACK JACOBINS: TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO BY C.L.R. JAMES

An in-depth account of the Haitian revolution and how Haiti became the first independent country in the Caribbean following European rule.

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3. THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF

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Summer is over and soon you’ll come back to school or college to continue your educational quest. Though we’re majoring in different disciplines, there’s something all students have in common. We often find ourselves hard-pressed to write lots of assignments and create numerous projects that require much effort and time we merely don’t have. To complicate matters, we need to write research papers on topics that seemingly don’t pertain to our primary field of expertise. Believe us, almost

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U.S. professor Joyce Hopescott, from Boston, stands at the 'Door of No Return' as she visits the 'Maison Des Esclaves' slaves house, a gathering point where slaves were shipped west in the 1700s and 1800s, at Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, July 2019. Joyce said: "The legacy of slavery has not yet ended. Racism, racial discrimination, poverty, dispossession, oppression have not ended with the actual event of slavery (ending) itself. So even if we didn't want to remember, we ar
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toni1.jpgMichael Eli Dokosi is a journalist and a formidable writer with a decade's experience. He is a blogger, voice-over artist and MC. Dokosi is fluid with both spoken and written communication. He is for the African cause and reckons Africa shall regain its rightful place in world affairs soon.Toni Harris is the first woman to get a 4-year football scholarship. Pic credit: becauseofthemwecan


She is not the popular rap king, Tupac Amaru Shakur, who had all eyes on him but Antoinette “Toni” Harris d
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1. Taraji P. Henson

Believe it or not it’s her face shape and her looks that really got me going on this one since Taraji does have a much wider face than many of the women on this list and it does seem as though she might fit the bill a little bit more. Her career has been on a high note as of late and while What Men Want, her latest film, doesn’t seem to have blown people away at the box office, her credibility still hasn’t dropped a bit. In fact she would almost have to be one of the top pic

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First it was a football quarterback, then it was a woman’s soccer star, and now it’s a fencer. And others in-between. These are American athletes protesting the National Anthem.

TIME magazine (8/11/19) notes that a 26-year-old male fencer representing Team USA at the Pan Am Games decried America because of “the multiple shortcomings of the country I hold so dear to my heart. Racism, Gun Control, mistreatment of immigrants.” And so on and so forth.

I like the hymn “America the Beautiful,” whi

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Africans Sold Africans Into Slavery

Africans sold other Africans into slavery. The slave ships traveling to Africa had to get their slaves from somewhere. Most traveled to the coasts of Africa where they purchased slaves from native tribes living in the area. The slaves were often prisoners of war captured after raids on rival tribes.

The African kings on the coast traded slaves for European weapons, which allowed the kings to move further inland. There,

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2018 was a record year for black billionaires with some billionaires seeing a decrease in net worth, while other billionaires got richer. Nigerian cement mogul, Dangote, went down $2B, while Zimbabwean Telecom magnate, Strive Masiyiwa, went up $1B. For the purposes of this list, I have defined "Black Billionaire" as people of Black or African descent, worth at least $1B. Furthermore, since Forbes set precedent to exclude all Saudis of African ancestry, we have decided to do the same.

As

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Once upon a time in college basketball, black fans had a special sort of hate for Duke.

This season is different. The Blue Devils are so good in the ‘hood, Jay-Z came to watch them play … in Pittsburgh. LeBron James witnessed the Zion Williamson mixtape in Charlottesville, Virginia. After every game, the internet is flooded with highlights of Williamson and Duke’s three other one-and-about-to-be-dones. The program has come so far from its so-called “Uncle Tom” days, Sacramento Kings ro

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