By Victoria Hansen, South Carolina Public Radio Dressed in a brightly colored, patterned dress and wearing stylishly large, black rimmed glasses, 51 year-old Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr flashes the most fantastic smile. The mayor of Freetown, Seirra Leone in West Africa has travelled more than 4,000 miles to visit Charleston and South Carolina’s Sea Islands. She must […]
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Black People’s Land Was Stolen | The New York Times
Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.
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Israel Begins Tearing Down Palestinian Housing on Edge of East Jerusalem | The New York Times
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times Israeli bulldozers tearing down one of the Palestinian buildings in the West Bank village of Dar Salah, between annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Credit Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]JERUSALEM[/dropcap] — Israeli bulldozers arrived before dawn on Monday and began clawing at the first […]
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Thomas L. Jennings, First African American to Receive a Patent | Post News Group
Tamara Shiloh, Post News Group [dropcap]Patents[/dropcap] are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790. But it wasn’t until March 3, 1821, that a patent was issued to an African American: Thomas L. Jennings. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Jennings, born free in 1791, was awarded the […]
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What Big Little Lies Doesn’t Get About Bonnie | The Atlantic
Tonight’s Season 2 finale can either grant Zoë Kravitz’s character the depth she deserves or continue to underutilize her.
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Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting | The Conversation
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, The Conversation Carvings and barbed wire illustrate the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The site, designed by architect Johnpaul Jones, opened in 2011. (AP/Seattle Times/Jordan Stead). Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] June, the United States House of Representatives held a debate about reparations to African-Americans. One of the questions […]
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Louisiana Police Officer on Facebook Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘Needs a Round’ | The New York Times
Officials in the city where the officer works condemned his comment but said they were not sure it constituted a threat.
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What we get wrong about the 1960s ‘riots’ | The Washington Post
Small-town America has never been immune from big-city problems.
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For The ‘Nickel Boys,’ Life Isn’t Worth 5 Cents | NPR
Michael Schaub, NPR [dropcap]The[/dropcap] long string of horrors that took place at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys wasn’t a secret, but it might as well have been. Former students of the Florida reform school had spoken out for years about the brutal beatings that they endured at the hands of sadistic employees, but […]
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The Forgotten All-Star Game That Helped Integrate Baseball | Deadspin
When Cleveland celebrated its sixth time hosting MLB’s All-Star Game last week, it might have seemed an odd event to commemorate baseball’s integration. But when Jackie Robinson stepped onto the field in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform in April of 1947, becoming the first African-American to play in white organized baseball since the 19th century, it […]
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