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Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation”, Hollywood Clapback or Just Another Slave Movie?
By Riley Wilson and Shantrelle P. Lewis, Colorlines.com In this point/counterpoint about Nate Parker’s buzzy directorial debut, two Black independent filmmakers wrestle with the notion of seeing more chains, whips and nooses on the big screen. Riley Wilson: “The Birth of a Nation” Didn’t Change the Game …On the one hand, we have a film written, directed, and starring…
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See the video in which parents saw their children for the first time in two years.
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Watch white folks go off when they find out that Beyoncé is, gasp, black.
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Their mom fields A LOT of questions.
Read MoreUnpublished Black History
A Newark at War With Itself: the summer riots of 1967
Read MorePresident Proclaims National African American History Month 2016
The full text of President Obama’s Proclamation, dated January 29, 2016, in which he states: “During National African American History Month, we recognize these champions of justice and the sacrifices they made to bring us to this point, we honor the contributions of African Americans since our country’s beginning, and we recommit to reaching for a day when no person is judged by anything but the content of their character.”
Read MoreEx-Cop William Melendez Gets Up to 10 Years for Beating of Michigan Driver Floyd Dent
Judge Vonda Evans: “You were so into your bravado that you forgot the eye of justice was recording you,”
Read MoreJan Rodrigues: The First Black Man on the Island of Manhattan
Hidden History: The story of the first African descendant to settle on New York’s Manhattan Island.
Read MoreHillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School
How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?
Read MoreThe Unflattering History of the Cop Who’d Run Over Black People
Sgt. Jeffrey Rothecker is very, very sorry about a recent Facebook post advising Twin Cities residents to run over Black Lives Matter protesters.
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