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Does King Deserve to be King?
One of the biggest tangible changes being an African-American studies certificate pursuer has made in my life is my like, newfound…let’s say “objection” to Martin Luther King Day as a holiday, as part...
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So, true to my word, I saw "The Help"
K and I went to see it last night. I must say, right off the bat, that my expectations for this movie were greatly surpassed. I laughed, I cried, I was angry, I was sympathetic…this was, by most of the...
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Reblogged from Lavender Labia On the 57th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus earlier this month, President Barack Obama visited this historic bus at the...
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It is an affron…
It is an affront to all of what the civil rights movement stood for, what people died for, what people bled for, and those of us who marched across that bridge 48 years ago, we didn’t march for some...
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Yes, I have. I’…
Yes, I have. I’ve suffered some personal difficulties. Number one, I’m a native of the state, lived here all my life, but in 1958, as I came from a regional meeting in North Carolina, I boarded the bus...
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Walter Dean Myers, on the lack of people of color in children’s books
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? Where are the future white personnel managers going to get their...
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