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#BlackLivesMatter Los Angeles Is Dreaming of a #BlackXmas
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is encouraging everyone to divest from white corporations, invest in the black community and, if you must buy, to buy black this holiday season with its #BlackXmas campaign, which seeks to resist white supremacy through capitalism. Newsweek reports that Melina Abdullah—a BLM L.A. leader who is also a professor at…
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Drive Black, Buy Black: The Root Goes on the Blackest Road Trip Ever With Author Lawrence Ross
Meet Lawrence! What’s up, everyone! My name is Lawrence Ross, and if there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love black people. Yeah, I know people like to say that, but I truly do. I’m fascinated by who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going. And over the past…
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30 Percent of Black-Owned Businesses in NYC Vanished Between 2007 and 2012: Report
The Big Apple has been seeing a huge economic boom in the past 15 years or so because of its rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, with the number of new storefronts and companies bumping up by some 45 percent. However, that good fortune has not extended to everyone, with black-owned businesses seeing a significant decline over the…
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The Last Black History Month
After Donald Trump issued a statement that refused to acknowledge the 6 million Jews slaughtered by Nazi Germany during the 1940s on International Holocaust Remembrance Day Friday, black America should prepare ourselves for what may be the last Black History Month. I’m sure many of you doubt that the Cheddar Comb-Over could erase a tradition…