Recy Taylor, whose story of sexual assault at the hands of six white men in 1944 is featured in the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, died at a nursing home in Abbeville, Ala., on Thursday morning. She was 97.
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Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth | ProPublica
Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.
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Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes | The New York Times
Aph Ko got tired of hearing that eating vegan was something only white people did. So in 2015, she created a list of 100 black vegans for a website. It included pioneering figures like Dick Gregory and Coretta Scott King and younger, less famous writers, filmmakers, cooks and activists.
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‘Father of Black Psychology’ Joseph L. White dies at 84 | AFRO
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Joseph L. White, a psychologist, social activist and teacher who helped pioneer the field of Black psychology to counter what he saw as rampant ignorance and prejudice in the profession, has died. He was 84.
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Michigan to charge state’s top medical official in Flint water deaths | Reuters
(Reuters) – Michigan’s top medical official will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for her role in the city of Flint’s water crisis, which was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that caused at least 12 deaths, state prosecutors said on Monday.
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Black Entrepreneurs to Open Store for Breast Cancer Survivors | The Washington Informer
Breast cancer survivors across the region will no longer have to travel far to feel beautiful.
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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim | Black Perspectives
It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August 9, 1996 at the age of 36.
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This Civil Rights Activist Is the Reason I’ve Been Vegan for 30 Years | Bon Appetit
Dick Gregory, who passed away in August, spent his career advocating for the state—and the plate—of Black America
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Brittany Lewis crowned 2017 Miss Black America | The Philadelphia Tribune
Venice Island Theatre hosted to the 49th Miss Black America Pageant on Saturday, August 26, 2017. The 2016 winner Nicole Lyn Hibbert crowned the new queen Brittany Lewis.
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Why it’s harder for African American women to report campus sexual assaults, even at mostly black schools | Los Angeles Times
Chardonnay Madkins knows firsthand the pressures African American women can face when reporting campus sexual assaults.
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