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Why 2014 Is The Best Year For Light-Skinned Black Men Ever
After a 20 year dip in popularity and social capital — spearheaded by Nino Brown’s now infamous shanking of Christopher Williams’ delicate light-skinned hands in New Jack City — 2008 seemed poised to be the peak of the light-skinned Black man resurgence. Obama won the White House. Cory Booker and Deval Patrick seemed like heir apparents.…
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Who Killed Black Wall Street?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact about the…
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