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  • To Improve Mental Health in Black America, We Must Empower Communities

    To Improve Mental Health in Black America, We Must Empower Communities

    We’re still struggling to reconcile historic trauma with the black experience in America. After years of systemic oppression, exclusion, and discrimination affecting generations of families, black America has been left to shoulder the burden of that trauma alone. It shows up when applying for jobs and facing disproportionate pay. It shows up in sentencing disparities…

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    Genetta M. Adams

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  • Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison, One of America’s Greatest Writers, Has Died at 88

    Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison, One of America’s Greatest Writers, Has Died at 88

    A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity. —Toni Morrison text In describing the literary greatness of Toni Morrison—winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature, the first awarded to an African-American woman—the Nobel Foundation said that Morrison “in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives…

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    Genetta M. Adams

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  • Black Rag Dolls Designed to Be Abused Pulled From Store Shelves in New Jersey

    Black Rag Dolls Designed to Be Abused Pulled From Store Shelves in New Jersey

    Black rag dolls featuring instructions on how to abuse them were removed from the shelves of One Dollar Zone stores in New Jersey after customers and a state assemblywoman called the dolls racist. The president of One Dollar Zone said roughly 1,000 of the dolls—called the “Feel Better Doll”—were removed from three stores in New…

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    Genetta M. Adams

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  • Ben Carr, Stepfather of Eric Garner, Dies at Daughter’s Wedding

    Ben Carr, Stepfather of Eric Garner, Dies at Daughter’s Wedding

    Ben Carr, the stepfather of Eric Garner—the Staten Island man who was killed after being placed in a banned chokehold by an NYPD officer—died Friday in Jamaica during his daughter’s wedding, according to reports. PIX 11 was the first to report that Carr had “a medical emergency while attending Elisha Flagg-Garner’s—Eric’s sister—wedding.” He later died…

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    Genetta M. Adams

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  • #WeAreBaltimore: Residents, Mayor, Even the City's Newspaper Clap Back at Trump After Vile, Racist Tweets

    #WeAreBaltimore: Residents, Mayor, Even the City's Newspaper Clap Back at Trump After Vile, Racist Tweets

    After the president labeled Baltimore “a very dangerous & filthy place” that is “rat and rodent infested mess” and where “no human being would want to live,” the residents of Charm City and many others refused to let that slander lie and came to the city’s defense. This all started after the president dropped a…

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  • President Who Can’t Read Wants Obama's Book Deal Investigated

    President Who Can’t Read Wants Obama's Book Deal Investigated

    Man, the president must be really pressed to come up with this doozy. On Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee about the Russian investigation, which reignited impeachment discussions among Democrats. Clearly, this annoyed the president, because he called reporters into the Oval Office on…

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  • Judge Dismisses MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen's $250M Lawsuit Against the Washington Post

    Judge Dismisses MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen's $250M Lawsuit Against the Washington Post

    Remember Nicholas Sandmann, the MAGA hat-wearing teen from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic School who stood toe to toe with a Native American elder during a protest in Washington, D.C.? (I know, it seems like ages ago, but this just happened in January!) Well, after videos of that staredown went viral, the Washington Post interviewed the elder…

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    Genetta M. Adams

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  • The President Was Up Early Rage Tweeting About Rep. Elijah Cummings [Updated]

    The President Was Up Early Rage Tweeting About Rep. Elijah Cummings [Updated]

    President Petty, apparently tired of directing racist tweets toward the four congresswomen known as “the Squad,” found a new target to point his Twitter fingers at this morning. Just after 7 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump dropped several tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling the Maryland Democrat a “brutal bully”(ain’t that the pot…!) whose district—which…

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  • Emmett Till Memorial Will Now Be Bulletproof

    Emmett Till Memorial Will Now Be Bulletproof

    So it has come to this. Days after a photo surfaced showing three white frat boys with guns posing in front of a bullet-ridden historic marker to Emmett Till, the commission that maintains the memorial sign plan to replace it with one that is bulletproof, according to CNN. The Emmett Till Memorial Commission had already…

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  • The Children of Philadelphia Have Been Attending Toxic Schools for Years. This Is a National Crisis

    The Children of Philadelphia Have Been Attending Toxic Schools for Years. This Is a National Crisis

    The children of Philadelphia are in dire need of our help. They are at the mercy of a man-made, ticking time bomb that is nearly inescapable. I’m talking about toxic schools. Conditions in Philadelphia schools have needed a remedy for many years. Lead, asbestos, mold and other toxins are far too common in our aging…

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