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Is Corporate Support for Black Lives Matter Genuine?

August 18, 2020 admin 0

Miami Times Staff Report – Brands are being questioned about the legitimacy of their activism and platforms. Over the years, Black influencers have worked hard to lend their voices to social justice causes near and […]

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OP-ED: No Bridge too Far — Remembering Congressman John Lewis and the Fight Still Ahead

August 17, 2020 admin 0

NNPA NEWSWIRE — It comes to this: Americans are being cut out of the process by other Americans. A great victory, fought for on bloody streets and across bloody bridges, a score settled and signed […]

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Our View: U.S. Census Should Not Become a Coronavirus Vasualty

August 12, 2020 admin 0

OurView (Idaho Mountain Express) : The people in the United States are counted every ten years. A pandemic should not be an excuse to warp the 2020 process. The constitutionally required decennial census provides the […]

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African-Americans Have Long Defied White Supremacy and Celebrated Black Culture in Public Spaces

August 11, 2020 admin 0

By Shannon M. Smith – Blacks challenged white dominance of public space using parades, conventions and other events. In Charleston, South Carolina, Black citizens in the 1880s and 1890s mocked and defaced the original monument […]

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Your Silence Will Not Protect You. VOTE!

August 10, 2020 admin 0

By Moné Holder – As the Primary Election approaches and COVID-19 cases continue to hit record numbers in Florida, it forces many Floridians to ask themselves: should I protect my vote or protect my life? […]

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Why Some are Against Renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge in Honor of John Lewis

August 10, 2020 admin 0

By A.R. Shaw – Over 500,000 people have signed a petition to have Edmund Pettus Bridge renamed in honor of the late-great John Lewis. On Aug. 7, community and civil rights leaders met in Selma, Alabama to discuss […]

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EDITORIAL: The Air Force Gets a New Leader

August 7, 2020 admin 0

The Gazeette Editorial Board, August 6, 2020 – Three months before the murder of George Floyd incited coast-to-coast race riots by mostly white rioters, President Donald Trump nominated a Black man who could tell the […]

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Our Battle to Protect Democracy’s Greatest Tool: It’s On Us to Honor the Legacy of Representative John Lewis.

August 6, 2020 admin 0

NNPA NEWSWIRE By Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Chairwoman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee & Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL-07) — Even in the darkest of times, we can hear our friend and mentor John Lewis: “Ours is […]

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Why it’s ‘Black’ with a Capital ‘B’

August 5, 2020 admin 0

Daily Press Staff – The Black Lives Matter movement is noble in purpose, and anyone who truly understands the history of this country would agree. Though sometimes it quietly bides its time in the seamy […]

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Is Racism Responsible for Black Problems?

August 4, 2020 admin 0

By Walter Williams – I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death — […]

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