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Booker T. Washington: Teachers & Preachers

“Naturally, most of our people who received some little education became teachers or preachers. While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy … Continue reading

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Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95%

The headline pretty much says it all.

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Booker T. Washington: Washington D.C. (II)

“I took great interest in studying the life of our people there closely at that time. I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Washington D.C.

“During the time I was a student at Washington the city was crowded with coloured people, many of whom had recently come from the South. A large proportion of these people had been drawn to Washington because they felt that … Continue reading

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Booker T. Washington: Mother & Child

“During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother.” — Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901), Ch. 5: The Reconstruction … Continue reading

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Foxx in the Henhouse

Hollywood egomaniac, fulltime Angry Black Man, and all-around douchebag Jamie Foxx is a good barometer of what to expect if George Zimmerman is acquitted. Be prepared.

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Ms. Black-In-America joins Al Jazeera America

There’s nothing more irritating than a mulatto ‘black’, after a racial identity crisis that extends into early adulthood, suddenly identifying as ‘black’, given a soapbox, and then proceeding to obsess about ‘black’ issues (while largely denying their whiteness.) Enter Soledad … Continue reading

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Lil Snupe

In case any of you missed it, Lil Snupe (real name: Addarren Ross) was laid to rest. He died of pancreatic cancer… Nope. Actually, he was shot and killed by another black guy.

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Rena Price

While everyone knows who Rosa Parks is, not many people know who Rena Price (who just died at 97) is. She is the matriarch, of sorts, of the 1965 Watts riots: Rena Price was in her kitchen in the Watts … Continue reading

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Hank Willis Thomas – “Black Power” (2008)

This photo was recently sold for $800 as part of an ‘Art For Obama’ auction, but now can be yours (should you partake in this July 22nd auction), with an opening bid of $800 and a current ‘estimate’ of $2,000 … Continue reading

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