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State Senator Sharif Street added there are many Black Muslims who are already in powerful positions. “I’m a Muslim. Ryan Boyer is a Muslim, former Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson is Muslim, Bilal Qayyum, who was a big shot in the commerce department for a long time and who is now an activist, is a Muslim. […]
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Schools Chancellor David Banks on Thursday announced the launch of a curriculum meant to uplift the stories of Black people and their contributions to American and global history. The new resources are part of the city’s Hidden Voices initiative, […]
As we celebrate Black Heritage Month in 2024, there are groups of people who are trying to sugarcoat and erase African American history to promote patriotic education. Black Heritage Month — also known as Black History Month — is an opportunity for us not only to remember and reflect but also to educate our youth. […]
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Through the 18th and 19th centuries, the predominant opinion in the United States was that Black Americans had no history, says Joy Bivins, director of collections and research services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York. “Black history museums began to exist in the mid-20th century as a response […]
Black lives matter: Voices of the community | FIU Magazine – Florida International University FIU News Source link
Voices Of Wards 7 And 8: What A Go-Go Museum Means To D.C. DCist Source link
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Israel’s military says a misfired projectile launched by militant groups in Gaza hit Al Shifa Hospital Evacuations from the Gaza Strip into Egypt are suspended for foreign passport holders and for Palestinians needing urgent medical treatment – sources
More than 3,300 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated in the U.S. since 1989. That’s according to the University of Michigan’s National Registry of Exonerations. And that time on the inside adds up to more than 30,000 years unjustly spent in prison for many of those people. A significant number of those years were spent […]
Like many of us, I’ve been glued to media coverage of the terrible violence in Gaza and Israel. I was deeply shaken by the brutal killings of over a thousand Israelis on October 7. The families of Israelis killed and taken hostage deserve justice for these crimes. But instead of justice, all I’ve seen from […]