Vice President Harris concedes

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Black men voted for Harris; White women and Latino men didn’t Vice President Kalama Harris conceded Wednesday’s election to Republican Donald Trump, who won the nation’s presidency for the second time.  “I know some of you feel sad and disappointed,” Harris told Howard University students, their parents, and others who gathered on the school’s campus,…

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Nazis march in Nashville, where the KKK was founded

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Nazis marched down the sidewalks in Nashville, Tennessee, in the same state where the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general.  In the popular film, “Forrest Gump,†actor Tom Hanks played Forrest Gump, a distant relative of Nathan Bedford Forrest. His mother, played by actress Sally Field, gave…

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At Tesla, Blacks are less than human

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Black employees who work for Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, are called “nigger,†“monkey,†“boy,†and “black b*tch to their faces in assaults on their dignity and their ability to work to feed their families. At the Fremont, California plant, black employees regularly encountered graffiti, including variations of the nigger, swastikas, threats, and nooses, on…

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Washington Trust charged with “Red Lining” Black customers

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The Justice Department announced today that Washington Trust Company (Washington Trust), the oldest community bank in the nation charged with “redlining†Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, has agreed to pay $9 million to resolve the allegations. Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit services to individuals living in communities of color because…

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Alabama Republicans refuse to do what the courts have ordered them to do, and they will not support voter equality

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Republican Alabama lawmakers on Friday refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district. This move ignores a recent order from the U.S. Supreme Court giving Blacks a greater voice in elections. The legislation now goes to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, who is expected to sign it.  But a panel of three federal judges said they are…

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Judge rules against survivors of the Tulsa Massacre

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An Oklahoma judge rejected demands for reparations resulting from the 1920 Tulsa Massacre in which more than 300 Blacks were killed, and hundreds were left homeless following an attack led by Whites of the Greenwood Neighborhood, also known as Black Wall Street. The lawsuit was brought by a Black man and two Black Women over…

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