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Reparations Rally Heads to Bed-Stuy This Saturday

Bed-Stuy will be part of a nationwide push for reparations this Saturday, August 29. Brooklyn’s gathering starts at 2 p.m. at Harriet Tubman Park, Fulton Street and Stuyvesant Avenue. Local leaders, advocates, elected officials and community members will all be in attendance. The rally...
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7 Things You May Not Know About MLK’s “I Have A Dream” Speech

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech ranks among the most famous in history, but there are a few lesser-known facts about the 1963 moment.By Sarah PruittOn August 28, 1963, in front of a crowd of nearly 250,000 people spread across the...

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Thoughts and Memories on Memorial Day

The true story about Memorial Day, and my memories of honoring a century of...
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Reflections: To Native Americans: Nothing Happy About that First Thanksgiving

By Abigail McGrath, Renaissance House Thanksgiving is coming up and I am going to do...
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SHANE WEEKS, Chair of Shinnecock Graves Protection Warrior Society

by Stephen J. Kotzon27East.com, Southhampton Press,Shane Weeks, 32, a member of the Shinnecock Nation...
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A Long Island mansion built on 10,000 corpses

Shinnecock attorney declares a sacred site desecrated By Natalie Discenzafor WSHU/NPRThe Shinnecock Indian Nation might have...
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First Black Man on White House Secret Service Detail finally gets Justice 

TheGrio Staffwww.thegrio.com  In 1961, Abraham Bolden became the very first Black Secret Service agent to...
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Native American History Timeline and the Buffalo Soldiers

Thinking about the Buffalo Soldiers I hadn’t given much thought to Indigenous Peoples Day, until...

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National Urban League Backs NYC Delivery Workers, Warns Proposed Legislation “Would Almost Certainly Destroy Dozens of Black Businesses”

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