Where Willie Taggart goes, so goes history. The 43-year-old — whose parents worked in migrant fields — landed head-coaching gigs at Oregon and Florida State, two of the most coveted jobs in college football, at a relatively young age. At each of his four stops as a head coach,1 Taggart was the first African American […]
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This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry | The New York Times
A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees.
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Meet the Black woman who has fed thousands for free on thanksgiving for almost 40 years | Yen
Kind-hearted Janet Easley has been serving Thanksgiving dinner to thousands of needy people in central Indiana every holiday for the last 38 years. Indianapublicmedia.org writes that Janet Easley has welcomed everyone to the Turner Family Thanksgiving Meal, which will be held at three locations across Indianapolis in 2019. Easley has invited everybody including children and […]
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Boston activist wins City Council race by a single vote after recount | The Boston Globe
Julia Mejia told reporters at City Hall moments after the tally was announced that she was prepared for a legal challenge.
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Honoring the ‘Green Book’: A life-saving travel guide for African Americans during segregation | WMCAction News 5
‘If you wandered into a place where African Americans are not welcome…you could end up actually being killed’
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The Age of Trump Is Producing More Black Gun Owners | NBC News
CLEVELAND — When Lesley Green was a little girl in Houston in the 1960s — just a few decades after the routine lynchings of blacks in the South — her father would go off to work a late-night shift and leave a gun and a pile of bullets behind. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] If any strangers came […]
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Margaret Lawrence, 105, Dies; Pioneering Black Female Psychoanalyst | The New York Times
She overcame many hurdles, including rejection by Cornell’s medical school, which told her a black man before her “didn’t work out.” (He had died.)
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Cynthia Erivo and Eddie Murphy Among Golden Globe Nominees | Ebony
The ‘Harriet’ star received two nods; Murphy and ‘Dolemite’ each received one.
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South Sudanese Model Adut Akech Wins Model of the Year at 2019 British Fashion Awards | OkayAfrica
The 19-year-old model spoke about the need for increased representation in the fashion world during her acceptance speech.
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The Myth Was $150,000 in Fraud. The Real Story Is More Interesting. | The New York Times
The woman behind a pernicious and racist myth didn’t represent anyone or anything but her own striking criminal enterprise.
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