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LENA HORNE, shown dancing in Stormy Weather, was 1940’s Black America’s sweethearts, but a White man’s Valentine.

African beauties are often
White men’s Valentines
 

 “My identity is very clear to me now. I am a Black woman and I’m free. I say I'm free, because I no longer have to be a credit. I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman
that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become.
I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.”

~See full article by Bud Johnson~

Historian Says Future Survival
of Blacks Linked to
Restoration of Black Pride

In the 1960s, Black pride and Black power was more than a slogan – it was an attitude, a behavior and a lifestyle. Black leaders, community activists and the civil rights advocates were involved in a powerful movement that was ablaze in the hearts of all Blacks seeking fairness, equality and an end to the racist practices in America.
 

~See full article by Darwin Campbell~

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Texas Brand “Tookie”
Seeks to End the Unfair Rush to Judgment against Blacks in Justice System

For years in Texas, the process for selecting juries has been flawed and under suspicion. Because of that, many African American men have become dead men walking
or were sentenced to life in prison without the
benefit of exercising the right to a fair trial featuring
a jury of representative peers. That fight to “re-blind the justice system” and end racist and discriminatory
practices against African American defendants
could take on new meaning starting in April
with the case of Thomas Miller-El.

~See article by Jesse Simon~

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