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Why is ‘international’ Hong Kong still unable to accept black people?  South China Morning Post Source link

Louisville, Kentucky – When mass protests erupted in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 28, one of Chanelle Helm’s biggest worries was for the young people who took to the streets. Anger had been building over the March 13 police killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in Louisville’s West End. Not long after Taylor’s story gained national attention, […]

Join us on March 8th for an International Women’s Day celebration. Titled “Black Women’s Struggle for Democracy and Socialism,” the virtual Zoom event will begin at 8:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 PM Central, 6:00 PM Mountain, and 5:00 PM Pacific time. Register here. Among those whose lives will be highlighted: are CPUSA leader and former SNCC […]

Persistent gaps in life expectancy between Black and white Americans have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, this gap has narrowed by nearly 50% in three decades, largely due to improvements among Black Americans, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Co-authored by researchers at Princeton […]

A staggering 90 percent of people fail to achieve a good night’s sleep, according to new international research presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2022. The study found that suboptimal sleep was associated with a higher likelihood of heart disease and stroke. The authors estimated that seven in ten of these cardiovascular […]

Introduction As Americans witnessed U.S. forces leave Afghanistan in August 2021, foreign policy experts grappled with how yet another U.S. military withdrawal could end in a strategic failure. President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan concluded the second of the two largest post-9/11 wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. The wars cost the United […]

“Now we’re cooking.” Names whisked by as Brian Sheffey excitedly scrolled through the 1870 U.S. census on a large projector to find what he was looking for: a 13-year-old boy living in Alabama named Daniel, whose family included his father, Chance, his mother, Viney, and four brothers and sisters. Chance farmed. Neither parent, the census […]

Black Lives Matter  Britannica Source link

South African Facebook post sparks #RacismMustFall outrage  BBC.com Source link

International Black Heritage + History Month Is Using Fashion To Tell The Story Of The African Diaspora  Forbes Source link


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