The use of King’s voice in the ad wasn’t just jarring for its tastelessness
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Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person | The Root
It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops.
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‘Still fighting’: Africatown, site of last US slave shipment, sues over pollution | The Guardian
In 1860 the last, illegal, shipment of slaves to the US landed in this part of Alabama. Now hundreds of the largely African American residents are suing an industrial plant claiming it released toxic chemicals linked to cancer
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Why Are Some Black Women Skipping This Year’s Women’s March? | Essence
“It represented the continued neglect, dismissal and disregard of the issues affecting black women and other women of color.”
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The Opioid Epidemic Isn’t Just Affecting Whites; CDC Finds That Overdoses Among Black Americans Are Rising | Blavity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new data that show the opioid epidemic may be a universal issue.
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The Long Rise and Fast Fall of New York’s Black Mafia | Daily Beast
‘You can’t become known as a gangster. Once you’re known you’re finished. The old-timers understood that.’
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From the archives: Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about ‘new age’ of race relations in moving Des Moines speech | Des Moines Register
This story by Register reporter Robert Barewald originally ran on Nov. 13, 1959. April 4, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Khali Sweeney | Crain’s Detroit Business
Changing kids’ lives through boxing — and books
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Ex-Black Panther Elaine Brown awarded $4 million in punitive damages | The Philadelphia Tribune
OAKLAND, Calif. — A Northern California jury awarded more than $4 million in punitive damages to a former leader of the Black Panthers who was injured after an Oakland councilwoman punched and pushed her during an argument over housing.
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Forward Press | Baltimore Magazine
As a Vietnam vet, former Black Panther, and father of a literary superstar, Paul Coates has lived a life reminiscent of the great literature he publishes.
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