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Watch: Common Rallies Behind Michelle Obama to Get Out the Vote [Corrected] | The Root
As part of a major push to bring more black Americans out to the polls this November, rapper and actor Common has joined #ForeverFirstLady Michelle Obama as part of her When We All Vote campaign.
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Gorgeous New ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Trailer Celebrates Black Families | Colorlines
The latest look at Barry Jenkins’ upcoming film illuminates how Baldwin’s characters build community while navigating uncertainty and trauma.
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Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 | The New York Times
Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers’ club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant, but who endured to become the first black aviator and the first black general in the Marine Corps, died on Tuesday at his home in Stevensville, Md., near Annapolis. He was 83.
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Meet the gallant all-black American female battalion that served in Europe during World War II | Face2Face Africa
The success of the formation of the all black female battalion was thanks to Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American civil rights activist who at the time, appealed to the then-first lady of America, Eleanor Roosevelt, to create more meaningful roles for black women in the army to help balance out the shortage of soldiers.
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City Caught Trying To Grab Senior Citizen’s Brownstone | Kings County Politics
“Home-ownership is one of the most important ways a family is able to build and transfer wealth from one generation to the next. In that light, and with the ever-increasing cost of living in this city, preserving home ownership opportunities is critical in predominantly black and brown communities like ours…”
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Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ | The New York Times
A woman who survived the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 reminds us that history doesn’t stay stuck in time.
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People Of Color Are Still Being Locked Out of the Democratic Process | Colorlines
A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reinforces what many already know: the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act made it easier for states to discriminate at the voting booth.
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This 26-year-old Nigerian is now the highest paid robotics engineer in the world | Face2Face Africa
Silas Adekunle achieved this feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc.
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Afro-Ecuadorian women & girls are celebrated in this rare, touching photo series | Afropunk
Zama Mdoda, Afropunk Afro-Ecuadorian Women & Girls Photo Series. Denisse Ariana Perez, Featured Image [dropcap]Denisse[/dropcap] Ariana Perez and her aunt, an Afro-Caribbean woman who is a professor in social education, embarked on a journey to visit various Afro-communities in South America, specifically countries that aren’t known to have Afro populations. Communities of people of African […]
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