The full statement calls on .corporations and venues to cut ties with the musician and demands that investigations be made into allegations of abuse.
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Black Women’s Health Week Raises National Awareness | AFRO
“It was about highlighting for people the role of racism, discrimination, and unequal treatment in the variety of systems that influence our lives and how that impacts maternal health outcomes…”
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The jewels of Tribeca Film Fest, through April 28 | New York Amsterdam News
One of the best short films we’ve ever seen about race in this country is the animated short, “The History of White People in America…”
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The sadism of white men Why America must atone for its lynchings | The Guardian
Until now, the enforcement of white supremacy through racial terrorism in the form of lynching has largely been unrecognised as part of America’s history.
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LaTaja Dingle Launches “Royalty Beauty Supply” for the Black Community | The Network Journal
“I’m looking forward to what it’ll represent in the community as a small business and a Black owned business.”
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D.C. Kicks Off Summer Crime Initiative | The Washington Informer
Every year, for nearly 10 years, the Metropolitan Police Department has identified five to six focus areas that have experienced a high density of violence and utilized all available resources, including collaborative outreach, to prevent violent crime in those areas during the summer months.
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The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014)
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Google.org Matches Beyonce’s $100,000 Scholarship Donation to HBCU Students | The Network Journal
The 22-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter launched the Formation Scholars awards, through BeyGOOD, her charitable arm, last year when she awarded four students from Howard University, Parsons School of Design, Berklee College of Music and Spelman College $25,000…
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New York Governor Restores Voting Rights to Parolees | Colorlines
An estimated 35,000 residents, overwhelmingly Black and Latinx, stand to benefit from Andrew Cuomo’s executive order.
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Fifty years later, Fair Housing Act recognized as a factor in fighting housing discrimination | New York Amsterdam News
“Dr. King had been a strong supporter of the Fair Housing Act, openly pushing for it in Chicago in 1967…”
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