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How to Respond to a Stranger in Mental Distress
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White Missouri man shoots Black teenager in head; released from custody without charges.
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That’s not how it works…
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Five Officers Charged With Murder in Memphis Police Killing of Unarmed Citizen
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“The 1619 Project” continues to provoke national debate about race and history.
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Famine
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Dog bites man in the ass.
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King awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2/2)
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King awarded Nobel Peace Prize, Oct. 14, 1964 (1/2)
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Thank God!
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RIP Pharoah Sanders
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A QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE AND A DREAM (No vandalism; no dead cops.)
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Blue lies matter: Ex-Detective Admits Misleading Judge Who Approved Breonna Taylor Raid
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All carrot; no stick. So when does Biden use the bully fu#king pulpit for voting rights?
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Bill Russell, Who Led the Celtics to 11 Championships, Dies at 88
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“How the Schumer-Manchin climate bill might impact you and change the U.S….”…unless you’re poor, old, a new mom and/or, in many cases, Black.
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Arthur Ashe—Rest In Peace
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Family separation among slaves in America was shockingly prevalent | The Economist
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Juneteenth is of no national historical significance.
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Guns are only half of the problem.
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Enough
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Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to Supreme Court
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April 3, 1968. April 4th.
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The Republican National Committee is under fire after tweeting a GIF of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson that depicted her name being crossed out and replaced with the letters “CRT.”
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Another way it works…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson
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200th time is the charm
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Bloody Sunday
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In what officials now call one of the most unjust military trials in the nation’s history, 19 Black soldiers were sentenced to death in 1917 after a clash with the police.
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February is Black History Month. Slide #28/28
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February is Black History Month. Slide #27
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February is Black History Month. Slide #26 (renumbered as #2)
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10th anniversary of the killing of Trayvon Martin
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Supreme Court nominee
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February is Black History Month, Slide #25 (renumbered as #1)
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February is Black History Month. Slide #24
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February is Black History Month. Slide #23
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February is Black History Month. Slide #22
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But isn’t that the idea? “Texas Voting Law Leads to Jump in Ballot Application Rejections”
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Banned Books & Challenged Books List | Barnes & Noble®
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February is Black History Month. Slide #21
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February is Black History Month. Slide #20
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February is Black History Month. Slide #19
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February is Black History Month. Slide #18.
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February is Black History Month. Slide #17
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February is Black History Month. Slide #16
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February is Black History Month. Slide #15.
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February is Black History Month. Slide #14 (renumbered #3)
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Fast Sleds, Black Women and Two Decades of Medals
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Maya Angelou
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Angelou Becomes First Black Woman Depicted on Quarter
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February is Black History Month. Slide #3 (renumbered)
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February is Black History Month. Slide #9
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February is Black History Month. Slide #8
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February is Black History Month. Slide #7
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February is Black History Month. Slide #6
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February is Black History Month. Slide #5
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February is Black History Month. Slide #4
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February is Black History Momth. Slide #3
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February is Black History Month. Slide #2
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February is Black History Month. Slide #1
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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS): Black Woman Supreme Pick An Affirmative Action ‘Beneficiary’
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Stop the steal.
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Stop the Steal. “We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.”
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Stop the steal— those Black voters who survive the voter suppression gauntlet still get cheated.
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After kickboxing class, while you’re having your margarita…
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Dred Scott 2.0
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Which America Do We Want for Our Children?
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94
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Sidney Poitier…Rest in Peace
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“[In]many instances…police officers…put themselves at risk by jumping in front of moving cars, then aiming their guns at the drivers as if in a Hollywood movie.”
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Voting rights anyone? Ready to ph**k the philibuster?
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Ronnie Wilson, Founder of the Gap Band, Dies at 73
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Even an 11/12 White Jury in Georgia Should Choke on These Arguments
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Opinion | I Was Told I Have Career Advantages ‘as a Black Woman.’ Here’s How I Replied.
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Dermatology Has a Problem With Dark Skin.
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DWB+…..Why Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly
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OK. No CRT in VA.
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How about “Rittenhouse the vigilante?” “Teen terrorist?” “Trumpist gun thug?”
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“History had me glued to the seat,” she recalled six decades later.
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Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?
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Energizing Conservative Voters, One School Board Election at a Time
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The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”— It Wasn’t a Secret
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How the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” Slowed Covid Vaccinations of Black Americans
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Here’s the Mind-Set That’s Tearing Us Apart— David Brooks
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In 10 years and six months, they were told, they would be eligible for parole. It was the law — until it wasn’t.
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New York’s bravest racists
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It’s worse than you think—“More Than Half of Police Killings Are Mislabeled”
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Today is National Black Voter Day
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Hold the Confetti
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Juneteenth 2021– A Missed Opportunity
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On 56th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act— LBJ’s Address to Congress
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su·per /ˈso͞opər/
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“How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition” …Washington Post
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Juneteenth Reading List – Smithsonian Store
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What America’s racial reckoning can learn from Germany’s atonement with the Holocaust – The Washington Post
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In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism.
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In Tulsa, President Tells of a Massacre’s Horrors.
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What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre? | Smithsonian Magazine
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The Republican Party, Racial Hypocrisy, and the 1619 Project | The New Yorker
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Tulsa Race Massacre: Then, As Now, the Press Played a Crucial Role in the Incitement of the Event and the Spin That Followed
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What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed – The New York Times
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Malcolm X
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Number one with a bullet.
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Good news. Consent decrees back in the mix.
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Don’t turn away.
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How about 9 minutes and 29 seconds of freeze-frames?
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Chauvin defense: Opening argument in 13 words…
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Whom Should We Fear?
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Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021
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BLM summer— massive law enforcement failure in LA and from coast to coast.
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“Lawsuit on school segregation in New York City Targets Gifted Programs”
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Bloody Sunday– Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7, 1965.
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Vernon Jordan, 1935-2021.
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Kill the filibuster.
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“Denial Is the Heartbeat of America” – The Atlantic
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WHITE PRIVILEGE ON PARADE
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Inaugural address, President Joe Biden, 1/20/21
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So. Were more people really killed during BLM Summer 2020 than were killed during the failed Trumpist Capitol coup?
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This is the America that Black people know.
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Everybody walks. Except Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times in the back and remains paralyzed.
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Another day at the office? Biden DOJ needs to resume patterns and practices investigations.
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Detective lied to obtain Breonna Taylor warrant.
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No justice yet for Breonna Taylor.
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“Race and Violence in Our Cities” as a debate topic? Is Chris Wallace referring to George Floyd or Breonna Taylor?
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Q and A with Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of assassinated NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers.
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Louisville Metro PD major on antifa and BLM: ‘They will be the ones washing our cars’
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Things that anti-racism allies need to stop doing | by Dr. David Campt
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Breonna Taylor shooting: City of Louisville settles with family
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Get Your Knee Off Our Necks– 2020 March on Washington
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The Color of Change: Tackling Systemic Racism One Strategy at a Time
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Get Your Knee Off Our Necks– the 2020 Commitment March on Washington
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Kenosha
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Law and Order
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Teen terrorist—a foreign perspective.
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No shame. And no, not a common practice.
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“Equal justice under law.” (It’s right there on the building.)
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Jacob Blake. (PEH)
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The History of Racism in America | History | Smithsonian Magazine
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Birther bull****. Again. What’s the press going to do about it? (PEH)
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Birther bull****. Again. This time its Kamala
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No “Black” point of view
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A History of Lynching
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“When White Supremacists Overthrew an Elected Government”
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“When White Supremacists Ruled Washington,” Brent Staples
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The killing of George Floyd: just another day at the office?
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Thousands in D.C. oppose police shootings
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