By Gabriel Kinder, CNN (CNN)When Antonio Gwynn Jr. saw the damage from protests in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, he grabbed a broom, bought some trash bags and started cleaning the streets by himself. He started at 2 a.m. on Monday and did not stop cleaning for the next 10 hours. When an organized […]
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‘Food Apartheid In This Country Didn’t Just Happen. It Happened By Design.’ | HuffPost
By Anna Rahmanan, HuffPost Renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, who has pivoted to help his community, speaks about the current state of the food industry and the status of African Americans. Chef Marcus Samuelsson — the owner of a slew of restaurants around the United States, Canada and Europe — tells Anna Rahmanan that “change is coming to […]
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Ladue high school students lead protest crowd of 1,000 through nine miles of West County | The St. Louis American
Two Ladue high school students organized a Black Lives Matter march on Friday, June 5 that led a diverse crowd of about 1,000 mostly young people more than nine miles up and down Clayton Road through Ladue, Frontenac, and Town and Country. Victoria Neal, a graduating senior, and Lauryn Donovan, a rising senior, organized the […]
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Want to Support Black Women? Here are 6 Organizations Where You Can Donate | PureWow
If you’re looking for a way to support Black women, there are a number of organizations with that specific goal in mind. So why not consider making a donation? Here are six organizations to help you get started. 1. Black Mamas Matter Alliance Black Mamas Matter Alliance advocates for research and policy changes in order to advance […]
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BET Founder Robert Johnson Calls For $14 Trillion in Reparations For Slavery | Black Enterprise
Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert Johnson told CNBC Monday the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality. According to CNBC, Johnson believes the wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd. “Now is the […]
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Ferguson elects city council member Ella Jones as first black mayor in city’s history | KSDK
Ella Jones will also be the first woman to serve as the Mayor of Ferguson FERGUSON, Mo. — Ferguson City Council member Ella Jones won the city’s mayoral election Tuesday. Jones defeated fellow council member Heather Robinett. Jones will succeed James Knowles III, who defeated Jones in the 2017 mayoral election and held the office […]
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How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change | Medium, Barack Obama
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change. Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new […]
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(Illustrated) The Massacre of Black Wall Street | The Atlantic
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sarah Shadburne) —Victor Yarbrough wanted to do something that would bring positive opportunities for economic growth to west Louisville, according to our partners at Louisville Business First. So, he started his own bourbon brand with his brothers Chris and Bryson. It’s called Brough Brothers Bourbon, and it’s already distributed through Amazon to the […]
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The problem with the Minneapolis police has decades-deep roots | The Washington Post
Samuel G. Freedman, a journalism professor at Columbia University, is writing a book about Hubert Humphrey, civil rights and the 1948 presidential campaign. Six blocks and 75 years away from the Minneapolis street where George Floyd suffocated beneath the knee of a police officer, a squad of a dozen cops raided a restaurant owned by […]
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Freedom Riders Attacked in Anniston, Alabama | EJI, A History of Racial Injustice
In 1961, a group of civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders began a desegregation campaign. The interracial group rode together on interstate buses headed south from Washington, D.C., and patronized the bus stations along the way, to test the enforcement of Supreme Court decisions that prohibited discrimination in interstate passenger travel. Their efforts […]
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