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1959 The Year that Changed Jazz 22 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Jul 2019 40 4826

Storied African-American newspaper Chicago Defender becoming digital only 1 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 4 1387

A Letter From a Civil War Soldier To The Owner Of His Daughter 11 tulipsandroses Jul 2019 Jul 2019 53 3968

Tis the season when a lot of white folks 5 Chitown Kev Jul 2019 Jul 2019 19 3611

A serious question about Kamala Harris, but alas, in a minefield... 29 TreasonousBastard Jul 2019 Jul 2019 7 5626

OMG... Damon... (NSFW) 1 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 1788

California set to be first US state to ban hair discrimination 3 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1609

【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 1712

Hampton quilting guild creates tapestry honoring 400th anniversary of first Africans 9 TexasTowelie Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 2142

The brilliant M.Harrioit @theroot, explains malady of "not a racist bone in my body" 1 RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1488

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 2472

SCOTUS Overturned Curtis Flowers's Conviction 7-2 (Thomas Dissented) 3 tishaLA Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1591

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 1981

Boston's new MLK memorial is a gleaming bronze embrace 3 sheshe2 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1516

Trayvon Martin's Mother, Sybrina Fulton, Says Hillary Clinton Inspired Her Run For Office 5 JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 Jun 2019 22 2022

The Police *report* on the Phoenix couple 23 JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 Jun 2019 36 4875

1st black priest in US, ex-slave, positioned for sainthood 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1288

Viewpoint: What series on Central Park Five teaches us today 0 Eugene Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1750

House hearing on reparations for slavery set for next week 0 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1245

WOC in the media and a textbook 3 irisblue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1365

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 2130

"Conduction" (new Ta-Nehisi Coates fiction piece) 3 Recursion Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 1823

Good News is she's been removed from Airbnb 2 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 2008

Sen Harris, WOC & speaking in public... 4 irisblue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1661

I saw this in the twitterverse and I have a legitimate question 3 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 2 1793

Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children's Book (1955) 4 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 8 1773

Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 28/05/19 3 MrScorpio May 2019 May 2019 11 1824

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Apologizes for Racist Remarks, Profiling 7th Grade Students 6 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 5 2327

Harriet Tubman Mural in Baltimore & a little girl 8 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 26 2103

3 Women Of Color Reps chewed up Ben Carson yesterday... 2 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 8 1519

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If you have younger (Middle School early High Scool) readers in your life 1 The Polack MSgt May 2019 May 2019 5 1522

Sanders Birmingham Rally 4 irisblue May 2019 May 2019 7 1572

How the HELL did nobody think of this simple brilliance before? 6 Blue_Tires May 2019 May 2019 71 6056

Black Lives Matters calls for justice for Baytown woman killed by police 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 5 1278

Officer quits after confronting black man picking up trash 5 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 6 1995

West Point to graduate its largest class of black women 7 BumRushDaShow May 2019 May 2019 9 1707

Warren proposes $50 billion fund to invest in historically black colleges 0 Omaha Steve May 2019 May 2019 5 1201

This message was self-deleted by its author 2 shenmue May 2019 May 2019 2 1161

Chris McNair, father of 1963 church bombing victim, dies 2 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 1330

Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss America on making history and! 1 Stellar May 2019 May 2019 2 1514

Tennessee House Speaker's Top Aide Resigns After Accusations of Framing Black Activist and Sending R 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 6 1898

The Enslaved Girl Who Became America's First Poster Child 1 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 3 1594

Because you need a little Black girl on your timeline with an Afro laughing & 24 Kind of Blue May 2019 May 2019 49 4298

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Breaks Down Why Her $50 Billion Plan to Fund HBCUs Is Very Necessary 0 Recursion May 2019 May 2019 5 1229

Officer punched Oscar Grant and lied about facts in 2009 killing, records show 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 8 1173

'Strange Fruit': Still Haunting at 80 0 question everything May 2019 May 2019 4 1244

A symbol of slavery -- and survival 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1824

Watched Skip Gates's "Reconstruction" today 2 Recursion Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1372

Hidden In Plain Sight: Oldest Known Cookbook Authored By An African-American 15 JHan Apr 2019 Apr 2019 51 4553

James Byrd's Killer set to be executed today 7 JustAnotherGen Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 1992

Mikael Chukwuma Owunna, Artist "The models look as if they're wrapped in stars." 6 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 19 3064

AA Artist I just learned about 5 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1783

TSA & POC hair 2 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1501

The go fund me for the Louisiana churches burned down by racists 4 irisblue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1504

She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi. 10 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 2836

Race-fueled murder with Jeep brings life sentence with 28-year minimum for Russell Courtier 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1321

Woman in 'gardening while black' case hires self-proclaimed alt-right lawyer 3 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1861

Mass. marijuana industry is mostly corporate and white. Inside one Boston battle to change that 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1235

Black Teachers Matter. 4 JHan Apr 2019 Apr 2019 9 3192

This is a thread for my on line friend and mentor 10 The Polack MSgt Mar 2019 Apr 2019 16 2144

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A small liberal arts college in Dallas is doing the hard work of busting generational poverty 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1263

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War; April 9th on PBS 1 Behind the Aegis Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1287

2 arrested for vandalizing U. of North Carolina memorial 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1233

Two fires, only days apart, destroy historically black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1213

White at the Museum 2 Kind of Blue Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1318

Michael Brown's mother loses Ferguson City Council race 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1263

'Lawyering while black': Attorney says deputy profiled him as a suspect at courthouse 3 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Apr 2019 11 1886

Michael Brown's mother making run for Ferguson City Council 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 17 1346

The Cry Of Jazz (1959) 1 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Apr 2019 5 1232

A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 12 2092

Fire Burns Down Main Building of Historic Civil Rights Space, the Highlander Center 2 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1327

Jordan Peele went there. 12 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 13 2655

Fellow Blerds: Wakandacon 2019! An Afrofuturistic Celebration of Art. Community. Technology. 9 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 12 2134

Cross post. With all this renewed talk about Reparations in the 2020 campaign. 1 sheshe2 Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1354

Hey, question from a white person. 7 Neoma Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 3188

How Black Women Were Whitewashed by Art 2 Blue_Tires Mar 2019 Mar 2019 8 1725

South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation Invites Applicants for Summer Institute 0 Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1328

"I won't respond," the young black woman told the judge, "until you call me Miss Hamilton." 2 pnwmom Mar 2019 Mar 2019 26 2199

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler' 10 Miguel M Mar 2019 Mar 2019 27 4243

The Source of Self-Regard: Toni Morrison on Wisdom in the Age of Information 4 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1955

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