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How African-Americans Fought For The Right To Vote In US Presidential Elections
In the aftermath of the Civil War, with the abolition of slavery formalised by the 13th Amendment in 1865, approximately 4 million freed Black Americans were eager to secure their place as full citizens, including the critical right to vote.
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US Ex-Police Officer Sentenced To Over 22 Years For George Floyd Murder
Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in jail Friday for murdering African American George Floyd, a killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades.
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Michelle Obama Book Tour Documentary Hits Netflix
The book of the same name by Michelle Obama -- America's first African American first lady and wife of the first black US president -- became a publishing sensation upon its release in 2018, selling more than two million copies in North America in two weeks.
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Boeing Sued By Employee Claiming Co-Workers Used N-Word, Put Noose At His Desk
An African American employee at Boeing's Charleston, South Carolina, plant has alleged that he was a "victim to targeted racial harassment of an intentionally extreme and outrageous nature," according to a lawsuit.
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Einstein Decried Racism In America But Diaries Reveal A Xenophobic Side
"There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it," he said during a commencement speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
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Nikki Haley Emerges As Interpreter, Megaphone For Trump
President Donald Trump's two most high-profile diplomats, Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley, were with him at a meeting with African leaders here this week when the president took the lectern to offer a big reveal
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Donald Trump Denounces 'Horrible' Anti-Semitic Threats
After remaining silent on the subject for several days, President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried a spate of anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers across America as "horrible" and "painful."
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Opinion: 'White-lash.' Being A Muslim In Trump's America Is Frightening
In the seismic aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there is only silver lining for millions of women, African Americans, Hispanics, people with disabilities and 7 million American Muslims like me.
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Young Americans Worry Over Extremist Threat: GenForward Poll
The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color, particularly African-Americans, that fear is matched or surpassed by worries about violence from white extremists.
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Opinion: Five Myths About Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a historical figure every school child knows, one of the few from American history sculpted into a monument on the Mall. Yet much of his activism is misunderstood, even by some who seek to honor him. In the midst of protests by young African Americans in cities and on campuses across the country, King's life and l...
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On Benin's Voodoo Holiday, Followers Pray And Sacrifice For Peace
The national voodoo holiday in the West African country of Benin had a distinctively political accent this year as practitioners from Africa and the Americas gathered on Sunday to offer prayers and sacrifices for peace.
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A Racially Divided America Gets Ready To Vote
As America heads into election year, one of the issues fiercely debated every day but missing from the campaigns is the police shootings of unarmed African American men.
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Confederate Symbols of Civil War Divide US 150 Years on
More and more voices across the US South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that adds new emotion and tensions to a year of soul-searching over race in America.
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Thousands Lock Arms for Charleston Bridge 'Unity Chain'
Several thousand people crowded onto one of the longest bridges in the Americas on Sunday and joined hands in a show of solidarity with the victims of the Charleston church massacre.
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Race a 'Deep Fault Line' in America: Hillary Clinton
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Saturday the deadly mass shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina is a violent reminder of continued institutionalized racism in the United States.
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How African-Americans Fought For The Right To Vote In US Presidential Elections
In the aftermath of the Civil War, with the abolition of slavery formalised by the 13th Amendment in 1865, approximately 4 million freed Black Americans were eager to secure their place as full citizens, including the critical right to vote.
-
US Ex-Police Officer Sentenced To Over 22 Years For George Floyd Murder
Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in jail Friday for murdering African American George Floyd, a killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades.
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Michelle Obama Book Tour Documentary Hits Netflix
The book of the same name by Michelle Obama -- America's first African American first lady and wife of the first black US president -- became a publishing sensation upon its release in 2018, selling more than two million copies in North America in two weeks.
-
Boeing Sued By Employee Claiming Co-Workers Used N-Word, Put Noose At His Desk
An African American employee at Boeing's Charleston, South Carolina, plant has alleged that he was a "victim to targeted racial harassment of an intentionally extreme and outrageous nature," according to a lawsuit.
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Einstein Decried Racism In America But Diaries Reveal A Xenophobic Side
"There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it," he said during a commencement speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
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Nikki Haley Emerges As Interpreter, Megaphone For Trump
President Donald Trump's two most high-profile diplomats, Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley, were with him at a meeting with African leaders here this week when the president took the lectern to offer a big reveal
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Donald Trump Denounces 'Horrible' Anti-Semitic Threats
After remaining silent on the subject for several days, President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried a spate of anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers across America as "horrible" and "painful."
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Opinion: 'White-lash.' Being A Muslim In Trump's America Is Frightening
In the seismic aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there is only silver lining for millions of women, African Americans, Hispanics, people with disabilities and 7 million American Muslims like me.
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Young Americans Worry Over Extremist Threat: GenForward Poll
The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color, particularly African-Americans, that fear is matched or surpassed by worries about violence from white extremists.
-
Opinion: Five Myths About Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a historical figure every school child knows, one of the few from American history sculpted into a monument on the Mall. Yet much of his activism is misunderstood, even by some who seek to honor him. In the midst of protests by young African Americans in cities and on campuses across the country, King's life and l...
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On Benin's Voodoo Holiday, Followers Pray And Sacrifice For Peace
The national voodoo holiday in the West African country of Benin had a distinctively political accent this year as practitioners from Africa and the Americas gathered on Sunday to offer prayers and sacrifices for peace.
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A Racially Divided America Gets Ready To Vote
As America heads into election year, one of the issues fiercely debated every day but missing from the campaigns is the police shootings of unarmed African American men.
-
Confederate Symbols of Civil War Divide US 150 Years on
More and more voices across the US South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that adds new emotion and tensions to a year of soul-searching over race in America.
-
Thousands Lock Arms for Charleston Bridge 'Unity Chain'
Several thousand people crowded onto one of the longest bridges in the Americas on Sunday and joined hands in a show of solidarity with the victims of the Charleston church massacre.
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Race a 'Deep Fault Line' in America: Hillary Clinton
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Saturday the deadly mass shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina is a violent reminder of continued institutionalized racism in the United States.
