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Racism

Racism: ‘If we don’t get it at this point, we really are in trouble’

In 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knelt and led 250 marchers in prayer after they were arrested for trying to get African Americans registered to vote in Selma, Alabama. In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee on the sideline to call attention to...
June 4, 2020 | Bennie Ivory
Racism
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McConnell, you shut up —‘Old white men don’t get to tell Black men to shut up anymore’

May 13, 2020 Bennie Ivory

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