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Posts tagged with "slavery"
Local churches take up fight against diabetes
May. 15 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Diabetes is the “gateway disease” that often can lead to other health concerns, especially for Blacks. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one of every three Blacks in this country either has diabetes...
Godfather of Black psychology identifies Black strengths needed to counter harmful impact of mass media
Mar. 6 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Black youth today “have a future of unknown opportunities…and need our support to get there,” said a longtime advocate for youth empowerment at a February 26 Minneapolis Public Schools...
Letter to the Editor: A call for 21st century Black consciousness
Feb. 6 | First of all, our greatest gift to America is our humble humanity. Black people, we are in deep trouble with our Afro-American ideology. The responsibility of a community concerns everybody living in that community, whether you are rich or...
Unchained to portray Black slavery? Was there a politically correct way for Django Unchained to portray Black slavery?
Jan. 16 | The start of 2013 is making it difficult to avoid one of America’s greatest sins — slavery. We’ve just marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a plethora of films, documentaries and TV specials are scheduled...
Spielberg’s Lincoln begs the question: Where is Fred?
Jan. 9 | By Marc Morial Guest Commentator “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder...
Lincoln, the movie: What’s missing?
Nov. 28 | By Gary L. Flowers Guest Commentator “‘Negro History’ is the missing segment of world history.” — Carter G. Woodson Carter G. Woodson was right when he essentially said that Black history is the missing pages of world history. Never...
