Black People : Racism: Trending Topic of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.

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A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement




Patricia Leigh Brown

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Makes sense :facepalm:




The Ugly History of New Year’s Is Too Real for White Republicans




And as such, New Year’s Day was known as “Hiring Day” or—in words that more precisely named the cruelty they experienced—“Heartbreak Day.”

“Of all the days in the year, the slaves dread New Year’s Day the worst of any,”
Lewis Clarke, who fled enslavement and became an outspoken abolitionist, stated in 1842, one year before Rhode Island banned legalized racial bondage.


Kali Holloway

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Shameful, just shameful :facepalm:




The racist 1890 law that’s still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting




This conclave took place in 1890. But remarkably, approximately 130 years later, the laws they came up with are still blocking nearly 16% of Mississippi’s Black voting-age population from casting a ballot.

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Sam Levine in New York, with photographs by Imani Khayyam

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:running: from the truth :facepalm:





A New Report Finds That 45 States Are 'Failing' to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War



... reminded me very much of the Reconstruction era and the overthrow of Reconstruction, which was often accompanied, or accomplished, I should say, by violent assaults on elected officials,” Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, said in an interview with the New Yorker published a week later.


https://news.yahoo.com/

Time

Olivia B. Waxman



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Emancipation print from 1863 depicting a series of scenes contrasting African American life before and after slavery. Credit - Library Company of Philadelphia


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We were here way before the Mayflower :facepalm:





McConnell’s not alone. A lot of white folks don’t think Blacks are real ‘Americans’ | Opinion




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So one does not weep to see him smacked about, as happened last week after he rhetorically implied that African Americans are something other than real Americans. But one hopes both ardent critics and casual observers understand that ultimately, this is not simply a McConnell problem — which is to say, not just a transient gaffe reflecting only one senator’s clumsy syntax.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

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