Trump depicted President Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama as apes during Black History Month

Trump depicted Obama and First Lady as apes

President Trump posted a video of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, which is an outrageous and often well-received depiction of Black people.  The depiction of Black people during Black History Month as apes has been a long-standing trope used to justify slavery, racial segregation, and racial hatred. I am certain many Whites, Asians, Hispanics, and some Blacks believe they were descended from apes. Trump knows…

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H. Rap Brown has died

H. Rap Brown, also known as Jamil Abdulllah Al-Amin, one of the most charismatic leaders of the Black Power Movement, died Sunday in the Federal Medical Center in North Carolina. He was 82. He was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, and he later served as the Black Panther Party‘s Minister…

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Two Black men are released after long prison sentences 

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office reversed the convictions of Charles Collins and Brian Boles for the murder of 85-year-old James Reid in 1994 after they spent decades in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. Their convictions were based on lies told by detectives, withheld evidence, and police coercion. Boles spent 30 years in prison…

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Hundreds Attend Airman Roger Fortson’s funeral

Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson‘s family, friends, and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy. People lined up well before the start of…

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