“Focusing on the stories of black women opens the door for nearly every form of injustice and oppression to be explored.”
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Black Love Experience Promises a Passport to Wakanda in Southeast | AFRO
In a small corner of Anacostia where the vestiges of D.C.’s Chocolate City remain, lovers of everything black, beautiful and wondrous gathered to dance, mingle and heal.
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The Greenwood Food Blockade | Southern Foodways Alliance
The White Citizens’ Council, SNCC, and the politics of food access
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The first black woman aviator had to leave the U.S. in order to achieve her dreams | Timeline
They called her “Brave Bessie” and although her story inspired generations, her path ended in tragedy.
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Salvation Army Opens Its First Nonprofit Grocery Store To Combat Food Deserts | Huffington Post
The Baltimore store is being touted as the first of its kind, with a mission that it hopes will spread.
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Black politics 2.0: The post-Obama generation is so done with the Democratic Party’s old ways | Washington Post
This is what the post-Obama era of black electoral politics looks like — and it is taking shape largely outside the daily headlines in Washington.
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Black Like Me: Black Models & Discrimination | BET
“I WAS TOLD, ‘Don’t go into a casting after another Black girl, because they might get you guys confused.’
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Floyd Carter Sr., one of the remaining Tuskegee Airmen and NYPD veteran, dies at 95 | New York Daily News
The decorated veteran of three wars and 27 years with the NYPD died Thursday at age 95, leaving a long legacy as a groundbreaking hero pilot and a city police detective.
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These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race | National Geographic
Marcia and Millie Biggs say they’ve never been subjected to racism—just curiosity and surprise that twins could have such different skin colors.
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‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ | National Geographic
By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help America acknowledge the racist brutality in its past.
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