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Roger Ross Williams Eloquently Reveals We Are Stamped From The Beginning
In 1860, Mississippi Senate Davis on the floor of the United States Senate opposed a bill funding education for Black people. To justify this, Davis crafted a made up fairytale…
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I Called Him Morgan Remembers Jazz Great Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan was the toast of the jazz community and revered by his colleagues by being named trumpet player with Dizzy Gillespie at the tender age of 18. However, on…
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SELMA
One winter night in December 1997, my boyfriend and I were coming home from a holiday celebration. As we were driving down a particularly dark street in Brooklyn (where…
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Lupita Nyong’o Oscar Contender with 12 YEARS A SLAVE
However, there were some Americans that could not accept that law and resulted in "blackbirding". Blackbirding was an illegal method of recruitment/kidnapping of freed slaves in the North and transporting…
