The U.S. Constitution was created in 1787 as a compromise between the North and South, resulting in the 3/5ths Compromise.
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Racism takes a toll: the challenges to African American longevity
The suicide rate for Black Americans increased by 19 percent between 2018 and 2021. In that same time-period, the suicide rate for White Americans fell by 3.9 percent.
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Carolyn Bryant Donham, Emmett Till’s accuser, dies at 88
The White woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches toward her, which led to his lynching and murder in Mississippi in 1955, has died.
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The racism that murdered Emmett Till lives on
Justice has to be openly taught as a pillar of the African American legacy.
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Biden signs Emmett Till anti-lynching bill into law
Named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American savagely murdered by a group of white men in Mississippi in 1955, the legislation received push back from three Republicans.
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Critical race theory and the banning of Black authors in schools, libraries, and prison
Since September 2021, at least 230 challenges have been made against Black-authored books.
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Critical Race Theory controversy is about denial of truth
Money-saturated right-wingers have seized the term strategically as a convenient rallying cry for their agenda.
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Reparations: 40 acres and an Obama?
Civil rights legislation did not level the playing field or make Black America whole, which is the point of reparations. Black people did not get full when the Obamas ate!