President Biden's debate performance was compared to Moses' conversation with God in Exodus 4:10-17, and Hardy Brown, Sr. shared his personal experience of life under Jim Crow laws and the importance of having the right people speaking for you.
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]]>Juneteenth is a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in Texas in 1865, and was made a federal holiday in 2021 to celebrate African-American freedom, culture, and empowerment, as well as to remind of the ongoing racial inequality in the US.
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]]>Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, a descendant of a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is leading the movement to create a national monument to recognize and restitution for the destruction of Greenwood District, a thriving Black community.
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]]>The JL Group investigation report found that San Bernardino City Hall intentionally excluded Councilmember Kim Calvin from providing input into the qualification criteria for the selection of the new city manager, which is tantamount to taxation without representation and disenfranchisement of Blacks and the Westside community.
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]]>San Bernardino Councilmember Kim Calvin was censured for allegedly leaking information from Closed Session meetings, despite the fact that three other councilmembers are named in a $2 million claim against the city.
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]]>Dual enrollment programs offer African American students an invaluable head start, providing them with an opportunity to experience college-level coursework, empowering them to overcome educational disparities and ensuring access to higher education for all.
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]]>A city-funded political hit piece on Councilwoman Kim Calvin, who is Black and articulate, is being released without her knowledge and is attempting to remove her from representing her ward, despite her passion for addressing the needs of her community.
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]]>Community-centered public safety initiatives are producing tangible reductions in violence, but our investment in these transformative strategies has not matched their potential, and we must prioritize and invest in holistic, non-punitive strategies to achieve safety in all of our communities.
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]]>Natasha McPherson The Juneteenth holiday marks the public commemoration of slavery’s abolition in the United States. Since the end of the Civil War, Black folks have gathered annually to remember […]
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