Sen. Cory Booker delivered the longest speech in Senate history, surpassing the record held by Sen. Strom Thurmond, to rally Democrats and oppose Trump’s agenda.
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Black General Fired for Daring to Fix Military School’s Racism
Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, a Black two-star Army commander, was fired by the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors after winning several battles against the institution’s entrenched racist culture, including removing a prominent statue of Stonewall Jackson.
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60 Years After Malcom X’s Assassination, It’s Time to Wake Up
60 years after Malcolm X’s assassination, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump is calling for the declassification of government files to uncover possible involvement of the FBI in the killing.
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Destruction of L.A. Fires Includes a Historic Black Community
The Eaton wildfire in Los Angeles has destroyed Altadena, a Black upper-middle-class enclave, leaving hundreds of families without homes, clothing, and insurance, and forcing them to rely on community activists and social media for help.
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Black Lives Mattered. Then America Moved On
It’s official: Black lives don’t matter any more, if they ever truly did. Four years ago, a white man suffocated George Floyd, a Black man, to death on a gritty […]