The Black Panthers, Black History Month, and “Domestic Terrorism”
by Ron Jacobs / February 10th, 2013
Once again, it’s Black History Month in the United States. Since the inception of this celebration, its meaning has unfortunately been diminishe ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 11:45AM
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Grace Towns-Hamilton (1907–1992) was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly. As executive director of the Atlanta Urban League 1943–1960, Hamilton was involved in issues of housing, health care, schools and voter reg ...
Posted Sunday, February 10th 2013 at 3:47PM
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – In 2013, no one expects to see a man dressed in a Ku Klux Clan robe mid-morning in Center City, Philadelphia.
“I think that’s nonsense,” said one woman on the street.
“He needs to be committed to the jail system,” said anot ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:30AM
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:18AM
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MISSOURI (KFVS) -Missouri is number one, but it's on a list that no state wants to be on.
According to The National Violence Policy Center, Missouri has the highest rate of African Americans killed, compared to the total African American populati ...
Posted Thursday, February 7th 2013 at 1:12PM
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Over three decades after his death, the immortal words the revered Bob Marley gave the world, continue to inspire.
Protestors around the world, whether those at Occupy Wall St. styled protests or elsewhere, continue to chant "Get Up S ...
Posted Wednesday, February 6th 2013 at 10:17AM
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Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United States medical school.
Born in Detroit, Michi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 11:34AM
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Jackie "Moms" Mabley, born Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975) was an American standup comedian and a pioneer of the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville.
Mabley was born in Brevard, North Carolina. Altho ...
Posted Saturday, February 2nd 2013 at 5:01PM
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