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Read More »Issa Rae Is Demanding Radical Change
Issa Rae is using her platform for good. On Thursday (June 2), the Insecure star shared with her 2.7 million Instagram followers the groups and organizations she’s supporting during nationwide protests over police brutality. Among the ones she highlighted include, Black Lives Matter, Regional Bail Funds, Defund the LAPD, BLD …
Read More »Kanye West Says He's Running For President This Year
Photo: Saul Loeb (Getty Images) Kanye West is apparently going to make good on a promise he made five years ago when he won MTV’s Michael Jackson Vanguard Award and announced his plan to run for president in 2020. On Saturday, the rapper/designer/MAGA supporter tweeted (using some very Trump-esque language) …
Read More »Rachel Dolezal Says Black People Are Supporting Her Now
And now, a word from Rachel Dolezal about Black Lives Matter, the death of George Floyd and the movement to defund the police. Dolezal, a white woman who became a viral sensation in 2015 after she was outed for posing as a Black woman for over a decade, is speaking …
Read More »6-Year-Old Kicked Out of Arkansas Daycare for Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt
Screenshot: Fox 16 News A little Black girl was kicked out of a daycare in Russellville, Arkansas because its operators said she was encouraging racism by wearing a shirt that read ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Patricia Brown, Director of His Kids Learning Center, confirmed to Fox 16 News that 6-year-old Journei …
Read More »This Day in Black History: July 4, 1881
On July 4, 1881, educator and activist Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, known today as Tuskegee University, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Washington served as the school’s first principal and presided over the first day of class, which was held in a one-room church before the first official building …
Read More »Mississippi Election Commissioner Complains That "Blacks" Are Registering to Vote
Photo: Other (Shutterstock) An election commissioner in Mississippi claims her intent wasn’t to be racist despite posting on Facebook that she was concerned because “the Blacks” are having lots of voter registration events. According to a report from the Clarion Ledger, Jones County election commissioner Gail Harrison Welch is now …
Read More »See Colin Kaepernick Respond To 'Happy 4th Of July' Tweets
After the unprecedented protest movements in support of Black lives and justice across the country these past few weeks, this Fourth of July has been hitting different. Many are tired of the white supremacist narratives about American independence, and instead are quoting Frederick Douglass and other leading Black thinkers about …
Read More »What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?
Illustration: A. H. Richie Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on July 4, 2019. In 1852, the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited abolitionist, activist and statesman Frederick Douglass to speak at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y. He refused. But he agreed to speak on July …
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