Mormon Church Changes Scriptures Regarding Ban on Blacks
The Mormon Church has revised scriptures that were previously used to justify a ban on black men serving within the church. A new edition of the scriptures was released on March 1 now mentions that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ordained black ministers in his time, redacting years of anti-black and pro-slavery messages supported by the [...]
Did the Brazilian Government Deliberately Create a Crack Epidemic on Black Citizens? Some Say Yes
Crack addiction is out of control in Brazil. It started in the jungles of the Amazon and is now infesting the streets of the “favelas” (ghettos) of Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro. In fact, Brazilians are the biggest consumers of crack and cocaine in the whole world. Keep in mind that Brazil has over [...]
This Week On TV: PBS Airs New Documentary Series About Frederick Douglas And His Abolitionist Allies
Premiering January 8, 15 & 22 on PBS. Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation. The Civil War was fought 150 years ago, but without a small band of abolitionists driven [...]
US Postal Service Issues Limited Edition Stamp To Mark 150th Anniversary Of The Emancipation Proclamation
The U.S. Postal Service marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by issuing a limited edition stamp that will go on sale Wednesday at post offices nationwide, NBC Washington reports. The stamp was unveiled at the National Archives, where the original Emancipation Proclamation is on display through 5 p.m. Tuesday, the final day of [...]
Country Music Singer Wears Confederate Flag Earpiece on National TV
Some of these folks make you shake your head in both awe and disgust. A country music singer by the name of Trace Adkins blew up the Twitter-verse by wearing a confederate flag as his earpiece on national television. The fashion statement was made during the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, and has led to [...]
Amazing Photographs Of Former Slaves Taken Seventy Years After The Emancipation Proclamation
In the 1920s and 1930s, an interest in slave narratives was rekindled, and as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration, more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery were collected, as well as 500 black and white photographs. The collection was compiled in 17 states between 1936 and 1938. Many of [...]
GOP Lawmaker Says America Was Better Off During Slavery
The conservative yearning for the days of the Confederacy has no end. Speaking on a conference call for the ’40 Days to Save America” plan, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert decided to inject slavery into the conversation: We strayed away at different times, Andrew Jackson’s time was not a great time, at different times slavery was [...]
U.S. Rep.Yvette Clark Believes She Would’ve Been A Slave In 1898
U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke made a recent appearance on satirical political talk show “The Colbert Report” on Tuesday. During her visit, host Stephen Colbert jested that her borough, Brooklyn, shouldn’t have joined with New York City in 1898. He continued to say he’d go back in time to correct the decision; he then asked Rep. Clarke what [...]
Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls on Pastors to Support Obama’s Backing of Gay Marriage
Rev. Jesse Jackson has joined Rev. Al Sharpton in supporting President Obama’s call for support behind gay marriage. Jackson even went so far as to compare the gay marriage issue to the fight against slavery and laws that kept blacks from marrying whites. “This is a bold step in the right direction for equal [...]
Erika Nicole Kendall: Black Women Want to Be Overweight? I’m Confused
Erika Nicole Kendall speaks to Alice Randall’s recent piece in which Randall argues that African American women are choosing to be fat. She says that there are multiple perceptions of black female identity, and that Randall’s viewpoint is just one of them. Alice Randall’s recent op-ed confused me. I couldn’t quite tell if the estimated [...]
Help end slavery in Mauritania
After reading CNN’s special report on Mauritania, “Slavery’s Last Stronghold,” it may seem like little can be done to end slavery in this West African country, where an estimated 10% to 20% of people are enslaved. That’s far from true, however. You can be part of the solution. Here’s how: Anti-Slavery International has set up [...]
Daughter of “Color Purple” Author Says She Rejects Her Mom’s Radical Feminism
Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker, who wrote “The Color Purple,” says that her mother’s radical feminist beliefs tore the two apart. Rebecca is now 38 year old and her mother is 64. Rebecca, for one, disagrees with her mother’s belief that motherhood is a form of servitude. She herself is a mom. “The other [...]
Racist Billboard Saying “Slaves Obey Your Master” Sparks Outrage [VIDEO]
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A billboard designed to criticize the Bible instead offended a lot of Black folks in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. The sign was vandalized overnight, and the president of one of the groups that funded it issued an apology. On Wednesday morning, a Harrisburg Symphony billboard replaced the controversial atheist sign. Lamar Advertising officials [...]
194-Yr Old Historic Black Church Faces Foreclosure
Scandal-plagued Hub bank OneUnited has begun foreclosure proceedings against Roxbury’s historic Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of Boston’s oldest and most-respected black churches, the Herald has learned. OneUnited, the nation’s largest black-owned bank — which got millions in federal bailout money — is threatening to auction off the church March 22 to cover [...]
13-Yr Old Allegedly Persecuted by Teachers for “Radical” Essay on Frederick Douglass
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the [...]