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‘It’s All About the Harriets’
When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced on Wednesday that the face of abolitionist leader HarrietTubman would grace a new $20 bill, NPR reached out to Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “For me, having Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill really says, first of all, that…
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Clemson Student Arrested After Threatening to Lynch Student Protesters: ‘Slave Auction Tomorrow Morning’
A Clemson University student is accused of posting intimidating and harassing comments about student protests over diversity issues on the South Carolina school’s campus, WSPA reports. Jamie Reece Moore, 21, was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a telephone after posting several threatening messages on the social media app Yik Yak regarding the ongoing…
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The Politics of Prince
The world is still in shock at the passing of Prince, one of the greatest musical artists in American history. Prince was an entertainer, an icon (at one point a symbol), but even more importantly, he was an explicitly political artist in how he presented himself, his music and his quest for creative independence. While…
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Why Was My Southern Ancestor Adopted?
My maternal grandfather is Grover Cleveland Ryman Jr. He was adopted sometime after age 7. His birth mother was white, and his father was Indian. We have been told by my mother that my grandfather’s parents were married in Virginia, when this was illegal. My great-grandfather Grover Cleveland Ryman Sr. was run off, and my…
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Bye, Felicia: A Sliding Scale of Who Should Drop Out After NY Primary
The New York presidential primary was the return of the inevitable. For weeks the popular press narrative was that the races for the party nominations were getting close. Ted Cruz was mathematically gaining on Donald Trump on the Republican side, and Bernie Sanders was closing the gap with Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side. However,…
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AP’s Slavery Series Wins Top Pulitzer
An expose of slavery in Southeast Asia’s fishing industry was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday. The Washington Post won the Pulitzer for national reporting for its comprehensive study of fatal shootings by U.S. police officers, and Farah Stockman, who joined the New York Times just days ago as a national correspondent, won…
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‘You’re Fired’: Black Apprentices Urge Voters to Dump Trump
If there is any way to mathematically stop Donald Trump from having the most delegates at the Republican convention, it pretty much has to happen in New York. If the real estate mogul/reality-TV star/erstwhile Republican manages to get over 50 percent of the vote in every New York district, he’ll score almost 80 of the…
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Chicago Home of Iconic Black Journalist Crumbling
“The roof is coming apart,” Erick Johnson wrote Monday for the Chicago Crusader. “The creaky wooden porch is aging with growing cracks. And the navy blue paint that once adorned the steps is peeling away. Nearly 100 years ago, this white, two-story house in Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood on the city’s south side became the…
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Watch: President Obama Takes on Steph Curry in Support of My Brother’s Keeper
If the activities from this week are any indication, President Barack Obama plans to really make his My Brother’s Keeper initiative a success before he leaves the White House. The president has been recruiting and using African-American entertainers and athletes to drum up support for the program, which focuses on black male excellence and support, and…
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Last Man Standing: Meet the New Head of African-American Outreach for the Republican Party
Telly Lovelace is not stepping into an easy job. Not that it’s ever been easy to work on African-American outreach for the Republican National Committee, but things haven’t been this bad for the Republican Party since Kanye West called out George W. Bush. Likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is anathema to African-American voters, the entire…