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Hispanic Heritage Month
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September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched…
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery…
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“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” – Speech by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852
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Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?
Frederick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852 at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester,…
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The Black Commentator Applauds 22½ Year Sentence of Derek Chauvin
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We must be vigilant and ensure that the conviction of Derek Chauvin is not a one-time event designed to quell the public so the system can return to business as usual, that business being the brutalization of Black and Brown bodies and the exploitation of the poor for the sake of white supremacy.
The Black Commentator applauds the 22½ year sentence of former officer Derek Chauvin for the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man, in…
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Women’s History Month – Sojourner Truth Ain’t I A Woman? – Delivered 1851 – Women’s Convention, Akron, Ohio
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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the…
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Black History Monthly – Shirley Chisholm – Unbought & Unbossed (includes video)
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone.
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the…
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