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Racism Is Not A Mental Illness
An act of terrorism unfolded on American soil last night when Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Read MoreTexas teacher’s Facebook rant about McKinney pool party gets her ‘relieved of her duties’: report
Karen Fitzgibbons lost her job after a Facebook post that said blacks are “causing the problems” and advocated racial segregation.
Read MoreThis Father’s Day, Let’s Shatter the Myth About the Absent Black Father
Fact: More young black fathers are raising their children at home than are not. Black men are present and engaged fathers who love their children.
Read More‘Are you an African American?’ Why an NAACP official isn’t saying.
A controversy is raging over whether a prominent Washington state civil rights activist and Howard University graduate who claimed she was African American is actually white.
Read MoreCivil War vet to be honored 98 years after burial
On Sunday, the Historical Society of Dayton Valley gave Scott Carnal the ceremonial burial he probably didn’t get nearly 100 years ago.
Read MoreCalls Mount For The Firing Of Texas Officer Who Crashed Pool Party, Pulled Gun On Teens
A rally is planned for Monday in the Dallas-area city of McKinney calling for the firing of the police officer seen in a viral video throwing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground and pointing his pistol at other youths at a pool party.
Read MoreIt Pays to Be a Jerk? Not if You’re Black!
In a new article in The Atlantic, jerks are highlighted as the real stars of the corporate world. But corporate “jerks” might not be so cool if they weren’t also white and male.
Read MoreFatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide
At least 385 people were shot and killed by police nationwide during the first five months of this year, more than two a day, according to a Washington Post analysis. That is more than twice the rate of fatal police shootings tallied by the federal government over the past decade.
Read MoreHow One Massachusetts Jail Cut Its Population By 30 Percent In 6 Years
By now the problem is well documented: There are far too many Americans behind bars, and it costs society far too much, in every sense, to keep them there. Less discussed, however, is what can be done about it.
Read MoreTortuous History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa
In 1794, a Portuguese slave ship left Mozambique for a 7,000-mile voyage to Brazil and the sugar plantations that awaited its cargo of black men and women. Shackled in the ship’s hold were between 400 and 500 slaves, pressed flesh to flesh with their backs on the floor. With the exception of daily breaks to exercise, the slaves would spend the bulk of the estimated four-month journey in the dark of the hold.
The journey lasted only 24 days. The São José Paquete Africa came apart violently on two reefs not far from Cape Town. The captain, crew and half of the slaves survived. An estimated 212 slaves perished in the sea. The remnants of the São José have been found, right where the ship went down. It is the first time that the wreckage of a slaving ship that went down with slaves aboard has been recovered.
The new National Museum of African American History and Culture, which will open in 2016 on the National Mall in Washington DC, will house an exhibit of the ship and its cargo.
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