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8 Notable Black Immigrants Who Have Fought For Black Freedom In America 2 tulipsandroses Jul 2019 Jul 2019 6 1856

1959 The Year that Changed Jazz 22 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Jul 2019 40 3768

Storied African-American newspaper Chicago Defender becoming digital only 1 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 4 1248

A Letter From a Civil War Soldier To The Owner Of His Daughter 11 tulipsandroses Jul 2019 Jul 2019 53 3535

Tis the season when a lot of white folks 5 Chitown Kev Jul 2019 Jul 2019 19 3167

A serious question about Kamala Harris, but alas, in a minefield... 29 TreasonousBastard Jul 2019 Jul 2019 7 4348

OMG... Damon... (NSFW) 1 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 1690

California set to be first US state to ban hair discrimination 3 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1471

【字幕付き】Japanese is My First Language Born and Raised in Rural Japan to Black Parents ft. Tiffany 2 yuiyoshida Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1502

Hampton quilting guild creates tapestry honoring 400th anniversary of first Africans 9 TexasTowelie Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1837

The brilliant M.Harrioit @theroot, explains malady of "not a racist bone in my body" 1 RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1369

Ava DuVernay Explains Why She Didn't Cast Anyone To Play Donald Trump In 'When They See Us' 6 Kind of Blue May 2019 Jun 2019 6 2110

SCOTUS Overturned Curtis Flowers's Conviction 7-2 (Thomas Dissented) 3 tishaLA Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1445

Central Park 5 Prosecutor Drops Columbia Law Teaching Job After Netflix's 'When They See Us' 7 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1653

Boston's new MLK memorial is a gleaming bronze embrace 3 sheshe2 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1322

Trayvon Martin's Mother, Sybrina Fulton, Says Hillary Clinton Inspired Her Run For Office 5 JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 Jun 2019 22 1845

The Police *report* on the Phoenix couple 23 JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 Jun 2019 36 4321

1st black priest in US, ex-slave, positioned for sainthood 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1163

Viewpoint: What series on Central Park Five teaches us today 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1517

House hearing on reparations for slavery set for next week 0 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1144

WOC in the media and a textbook 3 irisblue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1210

Subway Manager Fired After Turning Down Black Teen for a Job: 'I Don't Want Those People In My Store 5 MrScorpio Jun 2019 Jun 2019 9 1918

"Conduction" (new Ta-Nehisi Coates fiction piece) 3 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 1601

Good News is she's been removed from Airbnb 2 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1827

Sen Harris, WOC & speaking in public... 4 irisblue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1505

I saw this in the twitterverse and I have a legitimate question 3 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 2 1644

Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children's Book (1955) 4 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 8 1498

Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 28/05/19 3 MrScorpio May 2019 May 2019 11 1661

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Apologizes for Racist Remarks, Profiling 7th Grade Students 6 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 5 1971

Harriet Tubman Mural in Baltimore & a little girl 8 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 26 1875

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3 Women Of Color Reps chewed up Ben Carson yesterday... 2 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 8 1398

If you have younger (Middle School early High Scool) readers in your life 1 The Polack MSgt May 2019 May 2019 5 1401

Sanders Birmingham Rally 4 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 7 1401

How the HELL did nobody think of this simple brilliance before? 6 Blue_Tires May 2019 May 2019 71 5823

Black Lives Matters calls for justice for Baytown woman killed by police 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 5 1181

Officer quits after confronting black man picking up trash 5 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 6 1776

West Point to graduate its largest class of black women 7 BumRushDaShow May 2019 May 2019 9 1449

Warren proposes $50 billion fund to invest in historically black colleges 0 Omaha Steve May 2019 May 2019 5 1096

This message was self-deleted by its author 2 shenmue May 2019 May 2019 2 1074

Chris McNair, father of 1963 church bombing victim, dies 2 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 1190

Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss America on making history and! 1 Stellar May 2019 May 2019 2 1333

Tennessee House Speaker's Top Aide Resigns After Accusations of Framing Black Activist and Sending R 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 6 1702

The Enslaved Girl Who Became America's First Poster Child 1 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 3 1425

Because you need a little Black girl on your timeline with an Afro laughing & 24 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 49 3482

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Breaks Down Why Her $50 Billion Plan to Fund HBCUs Is Very Necessary 0 Recursion May 2019 May 2019 5 1138

Officer punched Oscar Grant and lied about facts in 2009 killing, records show 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 8 1083

'Strange Fruit': Still Haunting at 80 0 question everything May 2019 May 2019 4 1162

A symbol of slavery -- and survival 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1651

Watched Skip Gates's "Reconstruction" today 2 Recursion Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1284

Hidden In Plain Sight: Oldest Known Cookbook Authored By An African-American 15 JHan Apr 2019 Apr 2019 51 4123

James Byrd's Killer set to be executed today 7 JustAnotherGen Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 1719

Mikael Chukwuma Owunna, Artist "The models look as if they're wrapped in stars." 6 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 19 2880

AA Artist I just learned about 5 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1578

TSA & POC hair 2 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1361

The go fund me for the Louisiana churches burned down by racists 4 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1334

She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi. 10 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 2384

Race-fueled murder with Jeep brings life sentence with 28-year minimum for Russell Courtier 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1225

Woman in 'gardening while black' case hires self-proclaimed alt-right lawyer 3 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1691

Mass. marijuana industry is mostly corporate and white. Inside one Boston battle to change that 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1156

Black Teachers Matter. 4 JHan Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 2605

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This is a thread for my on line friend and mentor 10 The Polack MSgt Mar 2019 Apr 2019 16 1894

A small liberal arts college in Dallas is doing the hard work of busting generational poverty 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1179

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War; April 9th on PBS 1 Behind the Aegis Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1111

2 arrested for vandalizing U. of North Carolina memorial 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1140

Two fires, only days apart, destroy historically black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1123

White at the Museum 2 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1182

Michael Brown's mother loses Ferguson City Council race 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1155

'Lawyering while black': Attorney says deputy profiled him as a suspect at courthouse 3 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Apr 2019 11 1713

Michael Brown's mother making run for Ferguson City Council 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 17 1252

The Cry Of Jazz (1959) 1 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Apr 2019 5 1090

A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 12 1805

Fire Burns Down Main Building of Historic Civil Rights Space, the Highlander Center 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1186

Jordan Peele went there. 12 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 13 2331

Fellow Blerds: Wakandacon 2019! An Afrofuturistic Celebration of Art. Community. Technology. 9 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 12 1681

Cross post. With all this renewed talk about Reparations in the 2020 campaign. 1 sheshe2 Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1253

Hey, question from a white person. 7 Neoma Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 2685

How Black Women Were Whitewashed by Art 2 Blue_Tires Mar 2019 Mar 2019 8 1575

South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation Invites Applicants for Summer Institute 0 Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1188

"I won't respond," the young black woman told the judge, "until you call me Miss Hamilton." 2 pnwmom Mar 2019 Mar 2019 26 1996

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler' 10 Miguel M Mar 2019 Mar 2019 27 3744

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