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From Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic: The first time I saw Michelle Obama in the flesh, I almost took her for white. It was late July. Pundits were taking whispered bets on the fate of Hillary Clinton’s female supporters. In part to heal the intraparty rift, and in part to raise some cash, Obama was […]
RETURN to the CELEBRATE 44 MAIN PAGE. MARCUS GARVEY Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was not born an American, but the ideas he propagated about Black racial unity across borders, regardless of homeland and current land, left a lasting imprint on the consciousness of African-Americans, and forged the movement that came to be called Black Nationalism. […]
The history books have called 1973 the Year of the Mayor with four of the first African-American mayors of major cities taking office.
From Adam Serwer at the American Prospect: On Saturday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis went nuclear on John McCain, releasing a statement that seemed to compare McCain to segregationist George Wallace. “George Wallace never threw a bomb,” Lewis wrote. “He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks […]
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#theblackballotKeturah Herron Wins Kentucky Special Election
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