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Ghana Calling African Americans Home
The flag of Ghana inverts Ethiopia’s green-yellow-red Lion of Judah flag and replaces the lion with a black star. Red symbolizes...

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Aug 10, 20205 min read
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Camus’ Absurdist View of Plague
Enjoy the view while you are here. As a little girl, my mother taught me this prayer, which I said on my knees each night before...

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Aug 3, 20204 min read
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Steadfast Statesman John Robert Lewis
(February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020) Photo by Folhapress An American titan in the struggle for racial justice, whose path was...

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Jul 27, 20202 min read
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Being White Is Not Being Black
Some of the many faces in my family's country of Belize When a college classmate said that I was in an interracial marriage, I was...

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Jul 25, 20203 min read
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From "Tricky Dick" Nixon to Flim-Flam Man Trump
"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and...

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Jul 24, 20205 min read
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Sell Pizazz in COVID-19 World
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wears masks with panache. Most of her face coverings are from Donna Lewis (Photo by Elle) Sell change of...

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Jul 14, 20203 min read
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No One Is "Corona-Proof"
Albufeira's mayor said that the municipality will raise awareness among establishment owners about COVID-19 laws. (Photo by SIC Noticias)...

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Jul 10, 20205 min read
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Ron Settles' Jail Hanging Grieves Me Still
Ron Settles, a star football player at California State University in Long Beach (By Joseph Holliday) I feel crowded out by the dead. In...

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Jul 4, 20206 min read
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COVID-19 Fatigue Kills
Beachgoers in Britain defied social distancing on hottest days of the year this week. (By PA) The heady aroma of coffee carried us up a...

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Jun 26, 20205 min read
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Rallies, Protests Defy Health
Commemoration on June 19 in New York (By Getty Images) The Donald Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma attracted thousands of supporters to an...

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Jun 22, 20204 min read
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Smell of Toast . . . Like Salvation
Lee: What is this bullshit with the toast anyway! You make it sound like salvation or something. I don’t want any goddamn toast! How many...

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Jun 18, 20201 min read
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Smashing the Shackles of Invisibility
An attorney for the family of the Rayshard Brooks talked about the slain black man as a father whose 8-year-old daughter, in her birthday...

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Jun 15, 20204 min read
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COVID-19 Vaccine Isn't Tuskegee Again
Flyer for The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (1932-1972) George Floyd had the new coronavirus. Floyd’s killing by...

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Jun 12, 20208 min read
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George Floyd (Rest in Peace)
October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020 A Death blow is a Life blow to some A Death blow is a Life blow to Some Who till they died, did not alive...

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Jun 9, 20201 min read
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Not Everyone Wants COVID-19 Vaccine
The 11th day of protest in Washington, D.C. after a police officer killed a black man in Minneapolis. Black Americans are less likely...

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Jun 7, 20202 min read
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Black Americans in Cairo 1974: Royalty
In those tumultuous times, people divided by politics or their struggles for independence were united in their admiration of black...

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Jun 6, 20205 min read
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Trump’s Ex-Defense Chief “Angry and Appalled”
Cleveland Police First District Commander Daniel Fay and protester Daniel Watkins, of Cleveland, Ohio hug after kneeling together at...

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Jun 4, 20205 min read
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Demand Apology for Slavery, Reparations for Descendants
About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in the United States can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a study published in...

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Jun 1, 20202 min read
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Dozens of Cities Explode in Fifth Night for Justice
Protestors in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a police officer killed a black man on May 25 (By Christian Science Monitor) Outraged...

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May 31, 20202 min read
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"I Can't Breathe"
Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on the neck of handcuffed George Floyd in Minneapolis while passers-by begged him to stop before he...

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May 28, 20202 min read
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