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Sterling Tucker, civil rights leader and pioneering D.C. politician, dies at 95 0 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 2 1089
How the myth of black Confederates was born 3 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 6 1475
8 Notable Black Immigrants Who Have Fought For Black Freedom In America 2 tulipsandroses Jul 2019 Jul 2019 6 1881
1959 The Year that Changed Jazz 22 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Jul 2019 40 3871
Storied African-American newspaper Chicago Defender becoming digital only 1 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 4 1257
A Letter From a Civil War Soldier To The Owner Of His Daughter 11 tulipsandroses Jul 2019 Jul 2019 53 3570
Tis the season when a lot of white folks 5 Chitown Kev Jul 2019 Jul 2019 19 3226
A serious question about Kamala Harris, but alas, in a minefield... 29 TreasonousBastard Jul 2019 Jul 2019 7 4438
OMG... Damon... (NSFW) 1 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 1700
California set to be first US state to ban hair discrimination 3 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1488
【字幕付き】Japanese is My First Language Born and Raised in Rural Japan to Black Parents ft. Tiffany 2 yuiyoshida Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1515
Hampton quilting guild creates tapestry honoring 400th anniversary of first Africans 9 TexasTowelie Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1853
The brilliant M.Harrioit @theroot, explains malady of "not a racist bone in my body" 1 RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1376
Ava DuVernay Explains Why She Didn't Cast Anyone To Play Donald Trump In 'When They See Us' 6 Kind of Blue May 2019 Jun 2019 6 2131
SCOTUS Overturned Curtis Flowers's Conviction 7-2 (Thomas Dissented) 3 tishaLA Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1454
Central Park 5 Prosecutor Drops Columbia Law Teaching Job After Netflix's 'When They See Us' 7 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1683
Boston's new MLK memorial is a gleaming bronze embrace 3 sheshe2 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1341
Trayvon Martin's Mother, Sybrina Fulton, Says Hillary Clinton Inspired Her Run For Office 5 JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 Jun 2019 22 1858
The Police *report* on the Phoenix couple 23 JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 Jun 2019 36 4365
1st black priest in US, ex-slave, positioned for sainthood 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1167
Viewpoint: What series on Central Park Five teaches us today 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1530
House hearing on reparations for slavery set for next week 0 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1148
WOC in the media and a textbook 3 irisblue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1218
Subway Manager Fired After Turning Down Black Teen for a Job: 'I Don't Want Those People In My Store 5 MrScorpio Jun 2019 Jun 2019 9 1924
"Conduction" (new Ta-Nehisi Coates fiction piece) 3 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 1615
Good News is she's been removed from Airbnb 2 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1843
Sen Harris, WOC & speaking in public... 4 irisblue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1518
I saw this in the twitterverse and I have a legitimate question 3 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 2 1663
Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children's Book (1955) 4 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 8 1519
Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 28/05/19 3 MrScorpio May 2019 May 2019 11 1670

African American Continued...

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Boston Museum of Fine Arts Apologizes for Racist Remarks, Profiling 7th Grade Students 6 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 5 1992
Harriet Tubman Mural in Baltimore & a little girl 8 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 26 1885
3 Women Of Color Reps chewed up Ben Carson yesterday... 2 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 8 1408
If you have younger (Middle School early High Scool) readers in your life 1 The Polack MSgt May 2019 May 2019 5 1412
Sanders Birmingham Rally 4 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 7 1421
How the HELL did nobody think of this simple brilliance before? 6 Blue_Tires May 2019 May 2019 71 5838
Black Lives Matters calls for justice for Baytown woman killed by police 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 5 1186
Officer quits after confronting black man picking up trash 5 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 6 1796
West Point to graduate its largest class of black women 7 BumRushDaShow May 2019 May 2019 9 1469
Warren proposes $50 billion fund to invest in historically black colleges 0 Omaha Steve May 2019 May 2019 5 1099
This message was self-deleted by its author 2 shenmue May 2019 May 2019 2 1086
Chris McNair, father of 1963 church bombing victim, dies 2 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 1205
Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss America on making history and! 1 Stellar May 2019 May 2019 2 1354
Tennessee House Speaker's Top Aide Resigns After Accusations of Framing Black Activist and Sending R 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 6 1720
The Enslaved Girl Who Became America's First Poster Child 1 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 3 1436
Because you need a little Black girl on your timeline with an Afro laughing & 24 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 49 3528
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Breaks Down Why Her $50 Billion Plan to Fund HBCUs Is Very Necessary 0 Recursion May 2019 May 2019 5 1141
Officer punched Oscar Grant and lied about facts in 2009 killing, records show 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 8 1086
'Strange Fruit': Still Haunting at 80 0 question everything May 2019 May 2019 4 1163
A symbol of slavery -- and survival 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1661
Watched Skip Gates's "Reconstruction" today 2 Recursion Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1288
Hidden In Plain Sight: Oldest Known Cookbook Authored By An African-American 15 JHan Apr 2019 Apr 2019 51 4168
James Byrd's Killer set to be executed today 7 JustAnotherGen Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 1747
Mikael Chukwuma Owunna, Artist "The models look as if they're wrapped in stars." 6 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 19 2908
AA Artist I just learned about 5 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1597
TSA & POC hair 2 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1374
The go fund me for the Louisiana churches burned down by racists 4 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1350
She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi. 10 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 2407
Race-fueled murder with Jeep brings life sentence with 28-year minimum for Russell Courtier 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1228
Woman in 'gardening while black' case hires self-proclaimed alt-right lawyer 3 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1706

African American Continued...

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Mass. marijuana industry is mostly corporate and white. Inside one Boston battle to change that 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1158
Black Teachers Matter. 4 JHan Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 2647
This is a thread for my on line friend and mentor 10 The Polack MSgt Mar 2019 Apr 2019 16 1913
A small liberal arts college in Dallas is doing the hard work of busting generational poverty 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1184
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War; April 9th on PBS 1 Behind the Aegis Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1121
2 arrested for vandalizing U. of North Carolina memorial 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1145
Two fires, only days apart, destroy historically black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1133
White at the Museum 2 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1195
Michael Brown's mother loses Ferguson City Council race 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1162
'Lawyering while black': Attorney says deputy profiled him as a suspect at courthouse 3 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Apr 2019 11 1730
Michael Brown's mother making run for Ferguson City Council 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 17 1257
The Cry Of Jazz (1959) 1 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Apr 2019 5 1095
A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 12 1825
Fire Burns Down Main Building of Historic Civil Rights Space, the Highlander Center 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1196
Jordan Peele went there. 12 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 13 2350
Fellow Blerds: Wakandacon 2019! An Afrofuturistic Celebration of Art. Community. Technology. 9 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 12 1700
Cross post. With all this renewed talk about Reparations in the 2020 campaign. 1 sheshe2 Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1265
Hey, question from a white person. 7 Neoma Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 2727
How Black Women Were Whitewashed by Art 2 Blue_Tires Mar 2019 Mar 2019 8 1590
South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation Invites Applicants for Summer Institute 0 Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1195
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