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Interactive Comprehensive Map Shows Thousands of Lynchings Thoughout American History
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Interactive Comprehensive Map Shows Thousands of Lynchings Thoughout American History

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentNovember 8, 2019

“Before this website, it was impossible to search the web and find an accurate scope of the history of American lynching. The names have always been kept safe but distant, in old archives and scholarly books and dissertations. This site leaves the record open for all Americans, especially high school students who want to learn more than what their textbook has to say,” the site’s authors wrote.

Trump’s America By Dawn’s Early Light: Notes on Lynching, Lying and Seeking Justice
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Trump’s America By Dawn’s Early Light: Notes on Lynching, Lying and Seeking Justice

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 31, 2019

Pushing back the thick fog and fumes of the putrid propaganda of White supremacist triumphalism, what can we really see and sing by the dawn’s early light except Trump’s deformed and deficient conception of America unmasked? For all the hype, hustle and hypocrisy around “making America great again,” it presupposes an imaginary past void of its victims and of the violence, genocide, enslavement, segregation and other forms of decimation and oppression they suffered. And such a deficient and dishonest vision also fails to confront the contradictions obvious and oppressive in the lived conditions of current daily life in America. For surely there is no greatness in greed and no virtue or bravery in creating and indicting victims; no freedom, justice or honor in oppression, imperial aggression and betrayal of allies; and no pride to be praised in corporate plunder and predation against vulnerable others and the earth.

400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery.
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400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery.

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentSeptember 6, 2019

Indeed, “the slave trade began in the 15th century,” said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe in 2007, when he was the acting president of the United Nations General Assembly. Chidyausiku made the remarks during the UN’s observance of the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. “It was driven by colonial expansion, emerging capitalist economies and the insatiable demand for commodities – with racism and discrimination serving to legitimize the trade,” said Chidyausiku.

L.A. Based Poet Shares Inspiring Story in, ‘Black Indian: A Memoir’
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L.A. Based Poet Shares Inspiring Story in, ‘Black Indian: A Memoir’

Kimberlee Buck, Contributing WriterJuly 25, 2019

After a childhood of family secrets and a lost heritage, Shonda Buchanan set out to find the truth about her Black and American Indian ancestors. Buchanan’s research begins in Kalamazoo, Michigan and takes her through Virginia and North Carolina, where she interviewed family members, read old family diaries, and studied public records.

Embracing the Courageous Four: Radically Reconceiving and Reconstructing America
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Embracing the Courageous Four: Radically Reconceiving and Reconstructing America

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 25, 2019

In spite of the forked-tongue talk, doublespeak and patently racist ranting of the pretending President Trump and the White supremacist mob-like cheerleaders chanting hatred at his rallies, we must not miss the fresh, air-clearing and uplifting wind that is steadily rising and blowing our way. It is the transforming force of the voice, views and defiant struggles of the courageous four “freshmen” congresswomen: Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA); Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman
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U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman

A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire ContributorJune 13, 2019

In the fantasy of White supremacy, traitors like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are memorialized for being freedom fighters — the freedom of whites to own black human beings and work them to death — while a woman who risked her life time and again to free enslaved people is simply dismissed. Ignored. Erased.

Experts: Reparations Are Workable and Should Be Provided
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Experts: Reparations Are Workable and Should Be Provided

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentMay 3, 2019

“With the racial divide stoked by President Donald Trump’s racial bias, the need for some healing among the races is a progressive and necessary policy and redress and reparations promote this healing so that we can move toward a less factionalized, less racially divided country,” Minami said.

Congress Must Stop Family Separation
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Congress Must Stop Family Separation

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)July 26, 2018

Families come to this country seeking asylum. They undertake grueling, dangerous journeys in the hope that America will provide safe harbor from the violence that they are fleeing. Some are escaping domestic abuse, others have come to our shores to save their families from gangs. None expect to have their children ripped from their arms when they finally reach safety.

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Excitement builds for Justice or Else

Charlene Muhammad, Contributing WriterOctober 8, 2015

Excitement builds as travelers from far and wide finalize plans to coverage on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. The gathering, themed “Justice or Else,” is scheduled to take place October 10, 2015 beginning at the West Steps of the U.S. Capitol. “Justice or Else” is for all who have been suffering oppression and injustice, including Native Americans, Latinos, women, veterans, and poor Whites. The Justice or Else movement’s demands are clear. It wants land and justice for Blacks in America who have given her 460 years of sweat and