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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Ava, Ava, Ava -- "Queen Sugar" just f*cked me the hell up! -- Pt. 1

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BECAUSE BLACK HISTORY IS NOT JUST ABOUT A MONTH...

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  • Obama wants his private center on public land — and the mainstream media is looking the other way
  • Palestinian Lives Matter: We Must Reject Crimes Against Humanity
  • The Fate of Those at the US Border Is Our Fate Too
  • “Indian racism towards Black people is almost worse than white peoples’ racism” An Interview with Arundhati Roy
  • Former House Speaker John Boehner Is Now Working at a Marijuana Firm Advisory Board
  • A billion-dollar industry, a racist legacy: being black and growing pot in America
  • America -- the Most Frightened Nation on Earth
  • Malcolm X Was Right About America
  • The Bleached Bones of the Dead What the Modern World Owes Slavery (It’s More Than Back Wages)

My Charleston Chronicles...

  • New exhibit documents Black, immigrant-owned businesses that once lined Morris Street
  • Charleston's 350th Commemoration
  • The Persistence of Segregation in South Carolina
  • The environmental racism threatening South Carolina’s Black communities
  • Reckoning with the legacy of Jestine’s Kitchen, and the black cook storyline at its center
  • Hicks column: Lessons for today in a Charleston race riot 100 years ago
  • Commentary: Honoring Charleston’s ancestors
  • America’s Most Political Food
  • Commentary: Charleston must own its slavery wrongs if it hopes to right them
  • Teens can sell palmetto roses at Charleston RiverDogs games thanks to police captain
  • Charleston ‘did not function’ without slaves on the peninsula. Here’s a look at their homes.
  • How a Chef Is Exposing the Hidden Racism in ‘Southern’ Kitchens

Target, Africa...

  • Africa will not be vaccine testing ground: WHO slams racist French medics
  • Germany to return 500-year-old monument to Namibia
  • Why the Louvre is returning to Africa what is hers
  • US court hears case against Germany over Namibia genocide
  • The future is African — and the United States is not prepared
  • The UK has Offered to Give Ethiopia Back Its Stolen Treasures—On Loan
  • 100 African Cities Destroyed By Europeans

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