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Black News

BLV TV: “May God Write Us Down As Asses” – Let’s Talk About Third Parties – Ep. 101

April 21, 2022
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Highlights First episode of Black Like Vanilla, home for Black conversations outside the simulation. Hosted by Swan. Ep. 101 features Ramsey Robinson, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation Discussions on Covid + mental health, gas prices, Ukraine/Russia, wage theft, socialism and communism, and a 100 year old W.E.B.…

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Black History

Rare Video of 11 Year-Old Prince at Minneapolis Teachers Strike – 1970

April 4, 2022
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Prince wasn’t new to this. He was true to this. His Purple Majesty. Rest in Prince. From WCCO: The date was April 1970. Minneapolis Public Schools educators went on strike. WCCO restored the film to offer context to the educators strike that happened in the same district just last month. When…

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Black History

Fritz Pollard: The FIRST Black NFL Head Coach (But Wait…There’s More)

February 13, 2022
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I just started reading “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” by  Sam Greenlee. I’m at the part where Freeman bussed Calhoun’s ass in judo for essentially wasting Freeman’s time by underestimating him, going on to defy every obstacle designed to prove Black people were inferior to their white counterparts.…

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Black Culture

#StillNotWatching: Super Sellout LVI

February 11, 2022
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I am the one who said it because it needed to be said. Never did I ever think I would associate Kendrick Lamar with anything that reeked so stank-nasty. Not K Dot. But 2022 is weird AF. Mad disrespectful to Carter G. Woodson, our ancestors, our elders, and Black History…

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Black Excellence

Rest In Power: Lawrence Brooks, the Oldest Known US WWII Veteran Dies at 112

January 6, 2022
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112 summers. We could only be so lucky. Luckily he was given his flowers while he was still alive.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Zachary Garcés (@zackattack8099) Rest well, sir. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your service!   From CNN: The oldest known…

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