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Barack and Michelle Obama’s Official Portrait Unveiling Was a Shining Moment of Black History
It may not have been completely intentional, but the unveiling of the official portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during Black History Month was certainly something to behold. It was the first black president and the first black first lady, painted and portrayed by black artists in a way that told…
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#BlackPantherChallenge Raises More Than $300,000 to Send 23,000 Kids to Theaters
Everybody is going to see Black Panther. Frederick Joseph, and his now famous #BlackPantherChallenge through GoFundMe, has seen to it. The fundraising site has confirmed that some 300 campaigns on the site have collectively raised more than $300,000 combined, which will be enough to send about 23,000 children to see Black Panther in movie theaters…
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NYC Student Wants to Put His Namesake Malcolm X’s Name on His Senior Sweater, but His School Thinks It’s Inappropriate
His name is Malcolm Xavier Combs. He was named for the iconic black activist Malcolm X. And yet when Malcolm wanted to put the moniker of his namesake (and thus a shortened form of his own name) on his senior sweater, school officials deemed it inappropriate. “I don’t understand it,” Mychelle Combs, Malcolm’s mother, told…
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Utah School Renamed in Honor of NASA’s 1st Black Female Engineer
Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will remain Jackson Elementary school, but the name will now have a very different meaning. According to KSK-TV, the name of NASA engineer Mary Jackson, the first black woman to become an engineer at the esteemed space agency, and one of the subjects of the book and movie…
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White Man Told Police That 2 Black Men Tried to Rob Him at Gunpoint; Surveillance Footage Told Another Story
Nobody has your back like Mama does. And it took one particularly insistent mother—and the surveillance video she pushed police to review—to stop her sons from being jailed on false robbery charges after they were set up by a white man whom cops chose to believe over them. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Patrick…
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Young Teacher Adopts 12-Year-Old Student Who Almost Caused Her to Quit
An unlikely duo have formed a mother-and-son bond, changing their lives for the better. Chelsea Haley, 24, appeared in fourth-grader Jerome Robinson’s life as a teacher at his elementary school in Baton Rouge, La., through Teach for America, hoping to make a difference in a low-income school. But there were times when Jerome’s behavior tested…
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Princeton Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Allegedly Used the N-Word: Report
Students from Princeton University say that an anthropology professor repeatedly used the n-word in class while asking students a question, prompting several of them to walk out of the Tuesday lecture. According to the Daily Princetonian, the university’s daily newspaper, Professor Lawrence Rosen asked students, “What is worse, a white man punching a black man,…
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‘I Love This Shit’: Tennessee Sheriff Recorded Boasting After Ordering Officers to Shoot Unarmed Man During Slow-Speed Chase
A Tennessee sheriff is being sued for excessive force after he was recorded laughing and boasting about how he told his officers to shoot a man during a slow-speed chase rather than risk damaging police cars attempting to drive him off the road. According to News Channel 5, White County Sheriff Oddie Shoupe did not…
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Scientists Reveal That Britain’s Oldest-Known Skeleton Had Dark Skin, and Twitter Has a Field Day
Well, well, well. It’s always nice to know from where we originated, but one particular scientific discovery that was unveiled Wednesday at London’s Natural History museum took social media by storm. It was revealed that one of the United Kingdom’s earliest men, nicknamed “Cheddar Man,” was actually dark-skinned. You hear that? That was the sound…
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Charleston, SC, Black Lives Matter Leader Dies After Being Shot in Louisiana
A Charleston, S.C., Black Lives Matter leader—who made headlines last year after being seen jumping over yellow police tape in an attempt to snatch a Confederate flag—has died after being shot in New Orleans. Muhiyidin d’Baha, whose legal name was Muhiyidin Moye, died Tuesday morning, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed, according to Live5News. Police…
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