Tag: american history
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Black on Black Crime
Did you know that 80 percent of white individual victims are killed by a white individual offender? The FBI reports on crime statistics every…
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Uncommon Voices – Mary Hudson
Part of discussing and combatting systemic racism is understanding its impact and hearing directly from those who have been impacted. Mary Hudson was born…
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Holding History Accountable
American history is filled with depictions of women, the LGBT+ community, and persons of color that are deplorable and reprehensible. From “Little Black Sambo”…
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Implicit Bias with Dr. Scott Richardson
Implicit bias is a theory that suggests how we interact and treat others is based on inherited and learned stereotypes and prejudices. The assumptions…
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Monuments to the Confederacy
The last confederate monument in America was completed in 1972. Not 1872, 1972. From the end of the civil war through the civil rights…
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This is America
Dylan Roof, Charlottesville, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and on and on and on. After so many of these incidents, good-intentioned and well-meaning people like…
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State of Rage
In 1961 James Baldwin, when being interviewed about being Black in America, said the following, “To be negro in America and relatively conscience is…