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"No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise." — #MarianAnderson #BlackHistory

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After he reached the Super Bowl, Colin Kaepernick’s racial justice protests helped expose US views toward sports activism
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Selfie campaign honors late civil rights icon John Lewis for 85th birthday
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DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green
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"I'll never be a politician nor even think political. Me just deal with life and nature, that's the greatest thing to me." — #BobMarley #BlackHistory

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Black church gains control of Proud Boys trademark after group defaults on judgment
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West Point disbands clubs for minorities and women following Trump’s DEI orders
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US health funding cuts: what Nigeria stands to lose
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"I don’t trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt." — #MayaAngelou #BlackHistory

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Tulsa’s new mayor supports ‘elements’ of plan to address 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
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Lawsuit accuses UC of favoring Blacks and Latinos in admissions over whites
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New leader selected for Savannah State University, Georgia’s oldest HBCU
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Land seizure and South Africa’s new expropriation law: scholar weighs up the act
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"You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being." — #MalcolmX #BlackHistory

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Georgia State Patrol dismisses ticket after dashcam video of Black Uber driver’s traffic stop goes viral
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Sade Robinson: Memorial for Black woman dismembered on date canceled due to racist threats
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Musk’s inauguration salute is not the only apparent fascist signal from Trump’s administration
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
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Hundreds attend funeral for Henry L. Marsh, Richmond, Virginia’s first Black mayor
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South Carolina lawmakers push for hate crime bill using new strategy
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