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The "'Model Black Immigrant' vs. Black American" Stereotype
Despite the fact that non-American born Black people (who may not go by “Black” until they actually live in the States, if at all; complex varying cultural, colonial and imperialistic histories...
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A National Shame
by OUR COMMON GROUND Voices Ruby Sales and Susan SmithThis article appeared in the August 2014 issue of Sojourners magazine. Police killing of black people is not a black problem. It is an American...
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White power and Black voices: Why we can’t rely on “good white people” | LBS...
"LBS has developed one of the only programs in existence that can take youth from the so called “urban” context and produce nationally competitive scholars and advocates. "OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's...
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race - Abstract - UNTHINKING...
Cambridge Journals Online -"Considered costly, divisive, and backward-looking, reparations for slavery and Jim Crow appear to have no place in the politics of the This essay proposes that the dismissal...
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Twitter's Diversity Numbers And The Mystery Of Black Twitter
I find myself getting very confused in this ongoing series of arguments and revelations about how white and male Silicon Valley seems to be. Companies are being castigated, castigating themselves...
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OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Matt Taibbi: "Obama's Big Sell Out"
Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped...
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Get Out of Jail, Inc. - The New Yorker
On a cold November afternoon, Harriet Cleveland, a forty-nine-year-old mother of three, waved me over from the steps of her pink cottage in Montgomery, Alabama. She was off to her part-time job as a...
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BlackListory | 8 Ways to Be More Like James Baldwin
BlackListoryBravo ! to them. Check Yvette out.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:"2.) Know thyself. Evolve. “I had to go through a time of isolation in order to come to terms with who and what I was,...
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"I ran out, half-naked and bleeding..." l Goldie Taylor
National news analyst and commentator, documentarian and OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Goldie Taylor writes of family and intimate partner violence. OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:"It started with a...
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Black and Unarmed: Men Without Weapons Killed by Law-Enforcement
The shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., reopens a fresh wound just weeks after a police chokehold killed Eric Garner in New York City.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's...
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The Mike Brown Killing: It's Much Too Late for Angry Words l Kobie Colemon
Guest post by Kobie Colemon.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:This image will be an iconic reminder of how the people of Ferguson, MO, responded to Mike Brown’s cold blooded killing. A few things I...
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Black Masculinism and New Black Masculinities
"I don't advocate for male privilege. I advocate for men." - Dr. T. Hasan Johnson Created by Dr. T. Hasan Johnson of CSU Fresno's Africana Studies Program, the concept of Bl...OUR COMMON GROUND...
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So Say We All
OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:Hail Captain Adama."There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the State, the other serves and protects the people. When the...
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Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson
One reason for the racial divide over Michael Brown's death is that white Americans tend to talk mostly to other white people.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:"Clearly white Americans see the...
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Americans' Deep Racial Divide on Trusting the Police
It isn't just Ferguson—polling shows that black Americans are wary of law enforcement across the nation, while whites are more likely to trust officers.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:"While the...
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White privilege: An insidious virus that’s eating America from within
Ferguson offers white people a chance to understand the price of our privilegeOUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:"But the most insidious power of white privilege, the albatross effect that makes it...
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Black America and the burden of the perfect victim
Michael Brown wasn’t an angel. Does that mean he had it coming?OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala., and...
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The Fire This Time: America's Truce in the Fight Against Racism Guarantees...
Because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:Bob Hebert is a...
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Ferguson Unmasks the War on Black America | Black Agenda Report
"The brave and besieged people of Ferguson, Missouri, have already caused serious complications for the U.S. National Security State." OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:"A Force to Crush a...
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#Ferguson: An American Apartheid
"#Ferguson: An American Apartheid" by Goldie Taylor "By the time my maternal grandparents arrived in 1932, my father’s family had already been in St. Louis some 35 years. Like those who migrated...
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How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
A host of new groups are reviving the grassroots fight for racial equality.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:“A moment of trauma can oftentimes present you with an opportunity to do something about...
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8 Disturbingly Racist Children's Books Designed to Devalue Black People -...
Let’s Hurry or We’ll Miss the Public LynchingIn the late 19th and early 20th century, many books were developed in the United States and the United Kingdom to propagate the devaluation of Black...
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NFL Still Dropping the Ball | George Curry l BlackPressUSA
Now that Goodell has come out of hiding, it is not clear that the NFL is any closer to getting it right, as he keeps putting it, than it was when it dropped the ball in handling Ray Rice’s indefinite...
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The Decadent Veil: Black America's Wealth Illusion
I write this piece following the ground work laid by W.E.B. Dubois's Veil of Double Consciousness. The veil he described was a visualization of racial duality. I now undertake the daunting task of...
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Race and Militarism from Ferguson to Syria: A letter to African Americans |...
Race and Militarism from Ferguson to Syria: A letter to African Americansby Ajamu Baraka“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection...
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10 Black Scholars Who Debunked Eurocentric Propaganda - Atlanta Blackstar
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop Senegalese-born Cheikh Anta Diop (1923 – 1986) received his doctorate degree from the University of Paris and was a brilliant historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician...
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How the St. Louis County Prosecutor Played Us
Ferguson was a lesson in how to outmaneuver and manage a growing protest movement.OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus's insight:No one, of course, had expected the tragic killing of Michael Brown to metastasize...
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Marissa Alexander agrees to plea deal
VILLE, Fla. -- Facing a possible 60 years in prison for firing a gun at her estranged husband and his two sons, Marissa Alexander agreed Monday to a plea deal that effectively ends the four-year old...
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What If Black America Were a Country?
Whether these men know it or not, they are continuing a debate that W.E.B. Du Bois gave voice to 80 years ago in his resignation speech from the NAACP. In a farewell address titled, “A Negro Nation...
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
'Thuggish': A Hypocritical Pretext for Killing Black People - Urban Cusp www.urbancusp.com we castigate African-American youth for acting out in ways that other youth do all of the time; even as we...
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