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For Some Black Students, Discrimination Outweighed Integration’s Benefits

Photo: Twitter Integrating the American classroom has long been a goal of many who seek to eradicate racial discrimination. But a new paper from ...

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Question To Biden-Harris Administration—What’s in It for African Americans?

Biden-Harris, the new team. But what’s in it for the folks who propelled the ticket to victory? This is how Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

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Pan-African Profile: Marcus Garvey UNIAACL Founder

[Marcus Garvey] Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. Self-educated, Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement ...

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Congressional Black Caucus Institute Celebrates 75 Years of African Americans’ Contributions to the United Nations

Andrew Young in 1977 was a powerful U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Photo: YouTube.   On Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute (“CBCI”) hosted ...

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New York Times: Capitalizing Black When Referring to Black People

[The New York Times] NYT’s Dean Baquet: “We believe this style best conveys elements of shared history and identity, and reflects our goal to ...

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A True Hero — the Life and Times of Ulric Cross, Trinidadian Pan-African

Filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon and Allimadi.  [Commentary] Sunday I saw a great film by Frances-Anne Solomon called “Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times ...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sir Hilary Beckles Headline Tribute to Renowned Journalist Don Rojas Who’s Fighting Cancer

Don Rojas, Danny Glover, and Don’s wife, Karen at home in Maryland.   [Commentary: Appeal To Fellow Warriors]   For most of his adult ...

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“Real Wakanda”–Battle of Adwa, Searching for Heroes & Liberators, and The Political Economy of Black Panther

Ethiopian soldiers in the 19th century. Source: “Armies of the Adowa Campaign of 1896” by Sean McLachlan [Commentary on and Review of Black Panther] ...

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#Proud Africans: One Africa United

Allimadi   I was given five minutes to speak at the #ProudAfricans Rally to Repudiate Donald Trump’s racism and to build Pan-African alliances, at ...

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Déjà vu: The Crisis of the Black Intellectual Again, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cornel West and The Omission of the Pan-Africanist Tradition

Pan-Africans of the first order: Kwame Ture, Kwame Nkrumah, Shirley Graham DuBois in Guinea W.E.B. Du Bois, “Whither Why and Now,” 1960: “The American ...