Category: U.S.

Black in the Day…The Importance of Black Economic Independence

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August 23, 1900: The National Negro Business League was founded in Boston, Massachusetts with Booker T. Washington as its first president. Its membership included the elite of Black business leaders as well as a large number of the upwardly aspiring Black middle class. The purpose of the organization was to “promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro.” Washington established the group because he believed that the key to ending racism in the United States was through economic development. He also believed that economic development would allow African-Americans to become…

Black in the Day….The Murder of the Revolutionary Huey P. Newton

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August 22, 1989: 30 years ago today Black revolutionary icon Huey Newton was killed in the streets of Oakland, California On August 22, 1989, co-founder of the Black Panther Party For Self Defense (BPP) Huey P. Newton was murdered. Newton was fatally shot on Center Street in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland by a 24-year-old Black Guerrilla Family member. His last words to his killer before being shot twice in the head were, You can kill my body, and you can take my life, but you can never kill my soul. My soul…

Black in the Day….Nat Turner’s Rebellion

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August 21, 1831: This was the start of Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt that took place in Southampton county, Virginia.  Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861–65). Here are 10 things you may not know about…

BREAKING: Stephon Clark Law Signed Tightening Deadly Force By Police

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California adopts country’s strictest law to curb police killings In a major victory Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the nation’s strictest law into legislation in a call to tighten parameters on police use of deadly force. Link to Bill AB 392 Sparked by nationwide outrage and protests after the death of Stephon Clark in Sacramento, California last year it sets a larger precedence where deaths of unarmed Black men are concerned. On the night of March 18, 2018 Sacramento police officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet chased the 22-year-old…

Black in the Day….Dr. Charles Drew, the Father of the Modern Day Bloodbank

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August 20, 1944: On this day the Spingarn Medal was presented to Charles R. Drew “who set up and ran the blood plasma bank in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City which served as one of the models for the widespread system of blood banks now in operation for the American Red Cross.” In order to understand the significance of this, let me give you pertinent info on the award itself as well as Dr. Drew. The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for…