“The histories of Black communities in the United States have been undervalued, suppressed, erased throughout time.”
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How a Historically Black Virginia Community is Taking On a Pipeline and Rebuking the Gospel of Fossil Fuels | Atlanta Black Star
“They anticipated choosing us here in a predominantly Black area because they anticipated the least resistance. But they have received more resistance than they had anticipated.”
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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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Why Black People Own Guns | Huffington Post
HuffPost spoke with 11 black gun owners to figure out what gun ownership means in a country determined to keep its black populace unarmed.
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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-Owned Barbershops in LA Helped Customers Lower Their Blood Pressure | Gizmodo
“Bringing rigorous medicine directly to men in a barbershop, and making it so convenient for them, really made a difference…”
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Teenage boy killed in second fatal Texas bomb attack on African Americans in 10 days | The Telegraph
“These are very powerful devices, that is why it is imperative that no-one attempts to touch, move or handle these packages.”
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The Shame Is Not Ours: Black America, Poverty and the War on Drugs | The Root
Poverty, police and prisons—for too many black, brown and indigenous communities, where you find one, you find the others.
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Why Baltimore Doesn’t Heat Its Schools | Jacobin
In postindustrial Baltimore, low-income residents are treated as expendable — and public services are slashed accordingly.
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