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These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
It was a Thursday evening, nearing the end of a summer work week that Elbert Williams, a charter member of his town’s NAACP ...
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Black men are still dying young. Several efforts are attempting to change the status quo in Memphis.
A crowd exercises during Black Men's Wellness Day at Fourth Bluff Park earlier this month. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50 The health care workers who ...
The Kamala Harris ‘Opportunity Agenda for Black Men’ Might Be Good Politics, But History Reveals It Has Flaws
A century of liberal proposals have failed to curb racialized poverty, because they've been focused on the wrong thing.
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People died getting voting rights for Black men and women. It’s why you need to vote | Opinion
Three young men in Mississippi were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964 because they were helping to register Black men and women to vote.
Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress
Over a recent two-decade span, the U.S. has made almost no progress in eliminating racial disparities in key health ...
1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College ...
How a Japanese café owner from Moose Jaw became an FBI-targeted black nationalist
Naka Nakane landed in Victoria, BC, in 1904. From there he moved to Moose Jaw, then the largest city in the new province of ...
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HIV and AIDS Among Black Americans
The historic Tuskegee Syphilis Study did harmful medical testing on African-Americans, without their knowledge, for 40 years. Stigma around homosexuality may also silence men who have sex with men.
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The vice president’s “opportunity agenda for Black men” is meant to invigorate African American males at a moment when there are fears some may sit out the election rather than vote for ...
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Study of young African American men in US cities finds negative perspectives of community, few opportunities
In a new study on gun ownership, researchers surveyed young African American men who lived in high-crime, high-violence cities to better understand their perception of their environment and its ...