Why is the image of an environmentally conscious African-American still hard for us to picture?
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Sudan Ousted a Brutal Dictator. His Successor Was His Enforcer. | The New York Times
Declan Walsh, The New York Times Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, also known as Hemeti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries that carried out the violent dispersal of protesters on June 3. Credit Declan Walsh/The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]KHARTOUM[/dropcap], Sudan — Once a camel trader who led a militia accused of genocidal […]
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Black Woman-Owned Construction Firm Hired to Build New Terminals at JFK and Laguardia Airports | BlackBusiness.com
Staff, BlackBusiness.com PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHNY PITTS. Featured Image [dropcap]Being[/dropcap] a woman in the male-dominated construction industry could be challenging for some. But for Cheryl McKissack Daniel, who is the president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, the oldest Black-owned and female-run construction company in the US, it always feels like home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Based in […]
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Sculptor Augusta Savage’s Towering Impact on the Harlem Renaissance | Artsy
When I was in elementary school in the early 1990s, I would occasionally beg my mother for money to buy a book from the Scholastic Books circular. One year, I asked for a title called Great Women In the Struggle, the second volume in the “Book of Black Heroes” series. Its purple cover featured black-and-white […]
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Muslim Woman Investigated Her Own Hate Crime After NYPD Dismissed Her Case | HuffPost
“I told myself I wasn’t going to be one of those cases that got abandoned,” said Fatoumata Camara, who dug up video proving she was beaten and robbed.
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Uzo Aduba To Play Shirley Chisholm In FX Limited Series, ‘Mrs. America’ | Blackfilm.com
Starring Cate Blanchett, Aduba is among the 11 new cast members to the series
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Upper Marlboro, Maryland’s 1st Black Mayor Resigns Amidst Racist Bullying | Essence
Mayor Tonga Turner insisted she wasn’t resigning because of the racist bullying, with her spokesperson saying she wanted more time with family.
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“When They See Us” Shows How Black Slang Was Criminalized For The Central Park 5 & It Still Is Today | Bustle
Nylah Burton, Bustle Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix. Featured Image [dropcap]Ava[/dropcap] DuVernay’s new Netflix docuseries When They See Us depicts the heartbreaking story of the 1990 Central Park Five case in which a group of young Black and Latinx boys were convicted of a crime that they did not commit. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, […]
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The FBI Admits Black Lives Matter Was Never a Threat. It’s White People You Should Be Worried About | The Root
Michael Harriot, The Root [dropcap]Last[/dropcap] week, as Donald Trump curtsied before the Queen; as Congressional Democrats continued to cower from their constitutional obligations; while we took our horses down to Old Town Road, mounted Megan Thee Stallion’s bandwagon and watched what happens When They See Us, the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted that prejudiced assumptions […]
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