The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right | Politico
Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
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Byron Allen v. Comcast: Supreme Court Race Case Could Reshape Bias Lawsuits | The Hollywood Reporter
While the TV mogul alleges racism in Comcast’s refusal to license his niche channels, U.S. businesses worry that a win for Allen during the new high court term would increase legal costs and hurt their reputations. When Byron Allen first launched a legal rampage back in 2015, few would have guessed he would get to the Supreme Court with a […]
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Civil Rights, One Person and One Photo at a Time | The New York Times
The hands of the father and his young daughter wave emphatically: the two are not in agreement. The man talks. His eyes are closed; he looks pained. The child listens, but gazes at a plate of cookies on the dinner table. The scene is not unusual: a father is telling his daughter that she will not be going to an […]
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Making American White Again | The New Yorker
The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status.
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Meet the Black Architect who designed Duke University 37 years before he could have attended it | SHOPPE BLACK
In 1902, when Julian F. Abele graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture, he was the school’s first-ever black graduate. The debonair Philadelphia-born architect went on to design hundreds of elegant public institutions, Gilded Age mansions, and huge swathes of a prestigious then-whites-only university’s campus. Yet the fact that an African-American architect worked on so many […]
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7 Films With Black Talent To Look Out For This November | Shadow and Act
As November approaches, we at Shadow And Act have put together a list of all the movies with Black talent in key roles that you need to check out! From a horror film like Doctor Sleep to family dramas like Waves, there is something on this list for everyone! Check them out below (in order of release date): Queen & […]
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7-Year-Old Girl Is Shot in Chicago While Trick-or-Treating, Police Say | The New York Times
The girl, who the authorities believe was an unintended victim, was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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John Legend Wants To Improve Job Opportunities For People With Criminal Backgrounds | Forbes
In Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Grammy-winning musician John Legend announced the second cohort of participants in Unlocked Futures, a 14-month accelerator program for social entrepreneurs who have been incarcerated and urged business leaders to be more inclusive of job applicants with criminal backgrounds. Unlocked Futures launched in 2017 as a partnership between the philanthropic venture fund New Profit and Legend’s […]
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Waves Trailer #2: An Epic Emotional Journey Through the Darkest of Times | Movie Web
In Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Grammy-winning musician John Legend announced the second cohort of participants in Unlocked Futures, a 14-month accelerator program for social entrepreneurs who have been incarcerated and urged business leaders to be more inclusive of job applicants with criminal backgrounds. Unlocked Futures launched in 2017 as a partnership between the philanthropic venture fund New Profit and Legend’s […]
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Woman, 23, who texted her dead father’s phone every day for four years finally gets a text back and discovers she had been sending messages to a bereaved man who lost his daughter in a car crash | Daily Mail
An Arkansas woman who lost her father four years ago but texted his phone every day to share updates on her life, received the shock of her life when one day she got a response from a bereaved man who lost his own daughter in a car crash. Chastity Patterson, 23, of Newport texted her father’s old phone number on […]
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