In 1991 the Hallmark greeting card company, based in Kansas City, Mo., decided it was time to get serious about diversity. America was changing, as was Hallmark’s work force, and while the brand had dabbled in cards for black consumers since the 1960s, it didn’t have a perennial line that addressed them directly.
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Facebook Removes Popular Black Lives Matter Page for Being a Fake | The New York Times
A Facebook page that claimed a connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and had more than twice as many followers as the movement’s official page has been removed for being inauthentic, the company said.
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‘Breaking’ Presents: Juliana ‘Jewels’ Smith, Educator-Turned-Comic Writer | Colorlines
The Bay Area resident, inspired by how comics connected with her community college students, developed “(H)afrocentric” to address structural and economic racism in a funny and accessible way.
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Michigan to Stop Distributing Free Bottled Water in Flint | Colorlines
Many of the city’s residents do not trust—or use—what comes out of their tap.
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The Report on Race That Shook America | The Atlantic
It came out in 1968—yet little has changed since the Kerner Commission denounced “white racism.”
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Harry Belafonte: To realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, white America needs to change course | PBS
And I was just absolutely struck with the way in which he presented his case to the black community, condemning them for being not more engaged in the social destiny of black people.
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We can’t ignore race in the tragic story of Devonte Hart and his white adoptive mothers | The Washington Post
There’s a dominant narrative of white innocence that contributes to the perception of white parents who adopt black children as selfless do-gooders.
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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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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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‘Fast Car’ and the Living Histories of Working Class Black Women | Broadly.
Tracy Chapman’s most famous song has a singular point of view, that of a Black woman filled with regret and a sense of longing for a life not lived.
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