Our education systems tend to provide students with a truncated version of the actual horrors of slavery.
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Suicide attempts by Black teens have risen, and I’m not surprised | Mic
I remember the first time a friend of mine died by suicide. I was living in Washington, D.C. when I got the phone call from our mutual friend, Preston. The friend we’d just lost was a young Black man brimming with potential. He had a smile that lit up a room and an incomparable sense […]
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, Democratic leader and regular Trump target, dies at 68 | The Washington Post
Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump, died early Thursday morning at Gilchrist Hospice Care, a Johns Hopkins affiliate in Baltimore. […]
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Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home | NPR
Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the U.S. squad. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Track star Jesse Owens, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, won four gold medals. What the 17 other African-American Olympians did in Berlin, though, […]
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An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’ | The New York Times
Throughout my career as a neurosurgeon, I have worked closely with oncologists. Many of my patients have cancer of the brain — one of the deadliest of the near-infinite number of cancers. I have always viewed my oncological colleagues with complicated, contradictory feelings. On the one hand, I’m in awe of their work, which can […]
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The racial pessimism of Clarence Thomas | Vox
Corey Robin on Thomas’s black nationalism and why more people should understand it.
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Why Some Young Voters Are Choosing Democratic Socialism Over the Democratic Party | The New York Times
As the presidential debate comes to Ohio, the students in a local chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America are defining their political identity.
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ColorComm is Helping Millennial Women in Communications Level Up in their Careers | Black Enterprise
The next generation of leaders is being called on in media and communications. Lauren Wesley Wilson, CEO of ColorComm, is making sure that no one is left behind. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] For the past eight years, Wilson has brought seats to the table for women of color in communications through meet-ups, webinars, and events. And for […]
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The amazing tale of John Edmonstone: the freed slave who taught Charles Darwin in Edinburgh | Edinburgh Live
As part of Black History Month, we take a look at a truly inspirational Edinburgh man who Darwin hired to teach him taxidermy
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These Moving Photos Show Life in Apartheid-Era South Africa | Global Citizen
Celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt took up photography in 1948, the same year the all-white National Party came into power and apartheid began in his country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though Goldblatt, pictured above, was just 18 at the time, documenting the impact of apartheid — the government-implemented system of racial segregation in South Africa — […]
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