Equality Index for Blacks Inches Closer to Whites in the 2017 Report.
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A brief visual history of black Muslims in Chicago – Chicago Reader
During the 1960s, in the midst of the civil rights movement against segregation and discrimination, the teachings of the Nation of Islam extended beyond the fight for equality to include racial self-reliance, discipline, and economic independence.
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Two Sisters Created the Only Luxury Chocolate Brand Made in Africa – Shoppe Black
Although West African countries produce over seventy percent of world’s cocoa, I’ll bet you can’t name one African chocolate brand. Why? Because most of the Continent’s cocoa is exported to foreign countries that produce their own brands.
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Atlanta’s Controversial ‘Cityhood’ Movement – The Atlantic
Recent border battles have once again redrawn the lines of the metro area.
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How Does Race Affect a Student’s Math Education? – The Atlantic
A new paper examines the ways “whiteness” reproduces racial advantages and disadvantages.
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Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’ – The Guardian
Twenty-five years after the LA riots, Spike Lee has made a film about Rodney King, whose beating by the police triggered the uprising. Does he think things have improved in the US? ‘Race is always going to be an issue in this country’
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Influencers: Millionaire Bill Pickard on Strategy, Vision and Keeping Black Dollars at Home – Ebony
To be successful, you’ve got to visualize it, says the millionaire mogul, and he describes what he means in his new book.
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A Michigan Case Triggers Debate Over the Terminology for Female Genital Mutilation – Slate
Two weeks ago, an emergency-room doctor in Detroit was arrested for allegedly removing parts of two 7-year-old girls’ genitals. The federal criminal complaint alleges that Jumana Nagarwala, who has denied the charges, committed the crimes at a medical clinic in Livonia and may have victimized multiple other girls at the request of their parents.
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Fla. Apologizes to ‘Groveland Four,’ Men Wrongly Convicted of Rape in 1949 – The Root
In 1949 in Groveland, Fla., four men—Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas—were wrongly convicted of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett in Groveland. Three of the men were imprisoned and another was shot and killed by a group of white men. They became known as the Groveland Four.
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Finding the Lost Boyz of Chicago – The Atlantic
As part of our series with of interviews with the winners of the The Atlantic’s Renewal Awards, I spoke with LaVonte Stewart, the founder of Lost Boyz Inc., a baseball and softball program that steers children in his Chicago neighborhood away from violence through social-emotional development.
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