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• in Lifestyle
  Rev. Eugene S. Callender: Nobody Is A Nobody
  Rev. Eugene S. Callender shares his favorite achievement amongst many in his trailblazing careers in civil rights and in the ministry, as outlined in his book.
  by makingsense / on May 4, 2012
• in Music
  Black History Month: Celebrating The Marlena Shaw Sound
  Music icon Marlena Shaw on her 45 years in the record industry with Bryan Cain-Jackson
  by makingsense / on Feb 29, 2012
• in Family
  Graphic Biographies For Black History Month
  Graphic biographies celebrate Black icons.
  by PoppyJack / on Jan 30, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “black history”

 

• Awareness Feature: Regarding ‘The Butler’

  
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  Yesterday, a good friend of mine brought a film trailer to my attention which I feel needs to be addressed properly here since undoubtedly, more films in this tone and genre are going to continue to appear. According to IMDB, The Butler is a film that provides “A look at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eight ...
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• An Open Letter to President Obama on the Matter of Assata Shakur

  
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  Dear Mr. President, First of all, let me congratulate you on your massive re election win back in November. I voted for you and am proud to have done so. However, I am troubled by the recent act by your administration of placing Assata Shakur, the former Joanne Chesimard, on the most wanted domestic terrorist list. ...
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• Totally Biased: Anything You Want to Say to a White Guy? [VIDEO]

  
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  My man W. Kamau Bell is back on FX for a second season of his show “Totally Biased.” I really dig this cat and the work he puts in as a board member of Applied Research Center — they’re responsible for bringing us the site colorlines.com . Anyway, this week on his show he took to New York City streets to ...
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• Who Is Malcolm Shabazz?

  
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  As we reported earlier, word traveling around the world tonight is that Malcolm X’s grandson Malcolm Shabazz has tragically passed away at the young age of 28.…
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• Williams Wells Brown Becomes 1st African-American Published Playwright On This Day In 1858

  
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  Playwright, lecturer, and author Williams Wells Brown (pictured) is recognized for two historic feats in the literary world: He was the first African American to publish a novel in 1853, although “Our Nig” author Harriet Wilson was the first to do so in North America. Wells Brown’s other achievement came ...
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• An Ala. banner & its link to Black Panthers Party

  
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  The green and white banner was attached to what looked like a “Black Panthers” wall at the auction house. It blended into the arrangement of posters and photographs of party notables, set apart only slightly by the figure of a black panther striding across its center. I swept my eyes over the display, but ...
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• Clarence Thomas: Elites Expect Obama To Behave In Prescribed White Way.....As opposed To The Prescribed Way Blacks Behave

  
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  What a s orry, s ickening excuse for a Supreme Court Justice (The Hill) Jonathan Easley reports ~ Justice Thomas: Obama is president because he’s approved by ‘elites’ Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said having a black president in ...
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• Remembering Mayor Harold Washington, 30 years later

  
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  By Salim Muwakkil, May 3, 2013 Thirty years ago this week, Harold Washington was sworn in as Chicago’s first black mayor, so it’s a good time to assess more fully the import of his path-breaking tenure. read more
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• Jackie Robinson’s “42″ & the fear of change

  
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  Some years ago, I picked up a lobby card for the 1950 movie “The Jackie Robinson Story” at auction. The card showed a smiling Robinson, Ruby Dee as his wife Rachel, along with other actors playing Branch Rickey and the Montreal Royals manager. They were all arm in arm, prancing freely and delightfully in a ...
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• Black Twitter Flexes its #BlackPrivilege

  
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  Black Twitter Flexes its #BlackPrivilege When racism rears its ugly head on social media, leave it to ‘Black Twitter’ to clap-back and upend rhetoric meant to denigrate black folks, and turn it into a clever and teachable moment steeped in the type of sardonic satire meant to make perpetrators of said racial ...
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• African American Biography Spotlight: Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852 -1889)

  
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  Inventor who revolutionized the shoe industry Jan Ernst Matzeliger: Inventer who revolutionized the shoe industry Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch Guiana), South America. His father was a Dutch engineer who married a native Black Surinamese woman. At the age of ten, young Jan worked ...
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• Wisconsin Leads U.S. in Incarceration of Black Men

  
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  Speaking of mass incarceration: Wisconsin leads the U.S. in incarceration of black men. There is no debate about the disproportional amount of black (and brown) men in prison across the United States. Whether this is a direct result of the genetic predisposition to crime — which is bullshit — the fact remains that ...
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• Ku Klux Klan Holds 1st National Meeting On This Day In 1867

  
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  White supremacist and extreme-Right organization the Ku Klux Klan began their reign of terror in Tennessee in 1865. Early on, it was a group made of largely southern Democrats who rallied against Black and White Republicans in the South and championed the suppression of equal rights for all. With many members ...
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• Post-Racial Update: White Supremacists Kill Rival Racist Over White Supremacy

  
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  Anyone who has read this site for any time might tell you, I’ve been on a mission to fully embrace this Obama age of post-racial bliss . Occasionally, since January 2009 I’ve brought you many stories to reinforce said new trend of racial harmony . Why? Because quite naturally I want to do my part; I’d like to ...
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• 5 African American Artists Not Named Jean-Michel Basquiat

  
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  Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Essays Lee Jaffe, Hulton Archive Welcome to the wild world of contemporary hip-hop and R&B music where only one African American visual artist seems to exist -- Jean-Michel Basquiat. This singular and arbitrary focus is likely a result of rap being a highly ...
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• Black Mesa pc games 2013

  
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  Black Mesa Black Mesa («Black Mesa”, formerly known as Black Mesa: Source) – remake cult computer game Half-Life in 1998 on the engine, Source. Is a modification for the game Half-Life 2. Developers intend to re-create the original universe of Half-Life, using advanced engine Source, recycle all the textures, ...
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• Center for the Study of Race and Democracy Director to Teach African American History Since 1865 Course During ASU Summer Session

  
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  The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy’s director, Dr. Matthew C. Whitaker, will be teaching African American History Since 1865 (HST 334) during the summer session at ASU. This course examines the history and life of African Americans from 1865 to the present.  Explore key issues including protest ...
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• Wordless Wednesday: Jackie, Rachel and Jackie, Jr. (1949)

  
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  SOURCE: Pinterest, OURStory: Heroes and Sheroes
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• Valley of the Sun Juneteenth "Freedom" Fest on June 15 at South Mountain Community College

  
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  The Valley of the Sun Juneteenth "Freedom" Fest will be held on Saturday, June 15 at 5:00 PM at South Mountain Community College, 7050 S. 24th Street, Phoenix. The event is free and will begin with speakers with inspirational messages, reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. This year marks the 150th anniversary ...
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• Letter From Birmingham City Jail 50th Anniversary

  
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  TransGriot Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the day that the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jrs penned his Letter From Birmingham City Jail on scraps of paper given to him by a janitor, notes written on the margins of a newspaper, and later a legal pad given to him by SCLC attorneys to be compiled at movement ...
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