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George Floyd spent the last few moments of his life lying on the ground, handcuffed, with his neck pinned under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer who ordered him to “relax” as the 46-year-old black man gasped, “Please, I can’t breathe.” Anger over Floyd’s death on May 25 has bubbled over into protests […]

George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked the largest racial justice protests in the United States since the Civil Rights Movement. But the movement went far beyond this nation’s borders — it inspired a . . .

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — If you know anyone about to fly into Nashville, they may be in for a little surprise at the airport. Various people may be there to greet them who have some interesting connections to music history. The bustle of the airport is something Valierie Ellis Hawkins knows well. “I do a […]

When Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh were captured by Russians in Ukraine over the summer and later held in a “black site” for a month, where the two Alabama men said they endured daily torture and lived on spoiled bread and dirty water, they expected death at any moment. “I am going to die from […]

  24 March 2022 It is now universally understood and accepted that the transatlantic trade in enchained, enslaved Africans was the greatest crime against humanity committed in what is now defined as the modern era. In terms of its scale and its social, psychological, spiritual and physical brutality, specifically inflicted upon Africans as a targeted […]

Actress Whoopi Goldberg, featured in African American Lives, premiering on PBS In celebration of Black History Month, PBS will debut African American Lives on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. The four-part series, a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Kunhardt Productions, traces the family trees of an accomplished group of African Americans, including actress Whoopi Goldberg, […]

In recent years, social media have become a common way for political groups and social movements to organize. On Twitter’s 10-year anniversary, the site published a list of the most used hashtags related to social causes. Two of the top three were directly related to issues of race. According to Twitter, #Ferguson was the most […]

Release date: February 27, 2019 Skip to text On this page Text begins Context The Black population has contributed to Canada’s heritage since the arrival of Mathieu Da Costa (a navigator and interpreter for Pierre Du Gua […]

Group of fellows of the 2018 OHCHR Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent meet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (centre) in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: OHCHR/Geneva There are around 200 million people identifying themselves as being of African descent live in the Americas. Many millions more live in other parts of the […]

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Relationships were the essence of the early twentieth century “black international.” In Paris, the Martinician writer Jane Nardal took to her typewriter to make sense of a pattern she was witnessing. She observed that, while the First World War had in one sense brought […]


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