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Now Debate Over Black College Dress Code is a DistractionBut that doesn’t mean it’s not a conversation worth havingallyfromnola.medium.com

“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves... We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

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How Racial Profiling Robs Black People of FreedomRacist assumptions infringe upon the liberties afforded to othersallyfromnola.medium.com

“What we are dealing with really is that for Black people in this country there is no legal code at all. We’re still governed, if that is the word I want, by the slave code.” — James Baldwin

Black unity is key. When we support one another, the impossible becomes possible

"I learned very early in life that our race problem is not really of black against white, and white against black. It's a problem of people who are not very knowledgeable, or who have small minds, or small spirits." — Langston Hughes

“One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.” —Langston Hughes

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.” —Langston Hughes

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Why Being The Only Black Person in White Friend Group is Still AwkwardEven the bond of friendship doesn’t erase racismallyfromnola.medium.com

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” —Malcolm X

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them". — Fredrick Douglass

During the Hamburg Massacre on July 8, 1876, a mob of at least 100 White men in South Carolina carried out a violent attack on Black residents. They killed seven men, including the town’s marshal. Their killing spree continued until the U.S. Army stepped in.

Ten years ago, a police officer shot and killed Philando Castile, a 37-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop, as he reached for his license and registration 💔

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On July 4, 1799 New York passed a Gradual Abolition Act On July 4, 1804 New Jersey passed a Gradual Abolition Act The liberation of enslaved people is the only thing worth celebrating today

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Why Many Black People Refuse to Celebrate America's 250th AnniversaryThe holiday reminds them of the nation's failure to uproot racismmedium.com

More Black people fought on the British side during the American Revolution because Dunmore’s Proclamation offered freedom to those willing to fight. America’s victory meant chattel slavery would persist from 1776 to 1865, 89 more years.

America owes a debt to Black people.

“It’s a painful symbol. It’s a reminder of what we could be and how it’s failed to live up to that for Black people, for Indigenous people and people of color.” — apnews.com/article/poll...

"Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts." — Bobby Seale