Institutionalized Racism: The Secrets of Oppression
The Secrets of Oppression […]
The Secrets of Oppression […]
Black History Month Event […]
The Last Mile, a prison rehabilitation program based in San Quentin, California, offers prisoners free training on how to code. This equips them with the training they need to get a job more easily once they are out of prison. […]
“To whom it may concern, we in the Snellville community want it to be known we don’t want any more [sic] nigger businesses in our community. We want gravity, celeb barbershop and boot camp gone. Too many nigger businesses… We will not support them.” […]
“Republicans are afraid. I mean, they liked the far right-wing judges that Trump gives them, but they’re fearful of him,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told NNPA Newswire. “They are afraid of him calling them names and coming into their space and campaign against them. Fear, too often here, does the business,” Brown stated. […]
“We constantly have to innovate, and we cannot rest on last year’s medical advances,” stated Miles, who presented the topic, “Lilly Diabetes Solution Center and the NNPA: Vital Roles in Partnership that Serve African American Comm-unities Around the Nation.” “With Magic Johnson, people thought when he made the announcement that he had HIV that he would die. It’s 30 years later, and he’s still here because people kept investing, and now you can see the difference,” Miles stated. […]
In Education and other areas, one of the biggest issues facing underserved communities is lack of access to information. The Westside Gazette will continue to serve as a resource to keep our community informed. […]
The Congressional Black Caucus is now 55 members, the largest CBC in history and the largest Caucus in Congress.
“We have suffered through the last three years of this administration where we have watched gains that we have made over the last several decades either at risk or an attempt to dismantle. That is why the year 2020 is extremely important. I’m proud of the work of the CBC,” said Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) who is the current Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. […]
Violent episodes were the exceptions and not the rule of the massively spreading Sit-in Movement. In nearly all sit-in cities, Black protesters made immeasurable efforts to avoid violence at all cost since the movement and training centered on non-violent demonstrations in confronting inequality. […]
On February 3, 1870 — 150 years ago today — African American men were given the right to vote with the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which declared that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This major milestone would appear to have empowered Black men by implying their voices mattered in this American democracy. […]
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