Despite what you read in some history books — such as the Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women — Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) was not in 1972 the first African-American candidate to run for president of the United States.
In 1904, Ge ...
Posted Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 7:33PM
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Khoudia Diop is a 19-year-old Senegalese model who was once bullied about her color. But now the self-proclaimed “Melanin Goddess” is taking the internet by storm with her beautifully rich skin tone.
“I was teased a lot growing up, because o ...
Posted Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 7:25PM
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A high school football player in Mississippi allegedly had a noose placed around his neck and pulled back by one or more fellow students during a break in practice earlier this month.
The president of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP is callin ...
Posted Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 7:21PM
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By Tom Slater
19 October 2016
'I don’t know what Black Lives Matter does, so I can’t tell you how it compares to what the Black Panther Party was. I know what the BPP was. I know the lives we lost, the struggle we put into place, the efforts ...
Posted Friday, October 21st 2016 at 11:22AM
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ATLANTA (FinalCall.com)—Thousands packed into the historic Fox Theater in Atlanta for a keynote address, filled with guidance, warning and direct marching orders from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan culminating the 21st anniversary celebrati ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:24PM
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A black Georgia teenager lost his leg about a month after a behavioral specialist working at his school threw him to the floor multiple times and then denied him medical treatment.
The 13-year-old student underwent amputation Tuesday, five weeks a ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:15PM
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NEW YORK -- The 66-year-old woman fatally shot by a cop after she charged at him with a baseball bat assailed gun violence and racism in tweets.
Deborah Danner, who identified herself on social media as a programming aficionado who studied compute ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:06PM
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About 2,000 Seattle educators wore Black Lives Matter shirts at their schools Wednesday to call for racial equity in education.
Schools across the district held “Black Lives Matter at School” rallies before classes began for the day. Students, ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:02PM
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HOUSTON: Houston OBGYN Dr. Tamika Cross is kicking up a storm on Facebook with a maddening story of prejudice that will surely make you grit your teeth in frustration.
Cross was flying out of Detroit on a Delta Air Lines flight when a man became u ...
Posted Friday, October 14th 2016 at 1:14PM
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A small group gathered today in a hotel suite on the outskirts of Gary, Indiana. The nine formally dressed guests joined hands while standing around a table containing only a white box. Reverend John Jackson of Trinity United Church of Christ started ...
Posted Sunday, October 9th 2016 at 5:56PM
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Melanin is best known as the pigment that dictates our skin tones, but it is found just about everywhere—in our brains, in our hair. It is even found in cuttlefish. But as abundant as melanin is, its exact macromolecular chemical structure is surpr ...
Posted Sunday, October 9th 2016 at 5:38PM
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JEREMIE, Haiti — Houses stood without tops, trees without leaves and the people without hope.
What Hurricane Matthew’s Category 4 winds didn’t tear a hole in during its assault on this city, it snapped in two like a pencil, turning a defores ...
Posted Friday, October 7th 2016 at 3:48PM
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