President Trump’s recent social media post criticizing the Smithsonian Institution’s portrayal of slavery is inaccurate, insulting, and a national embarrassment, as the museums accurately educate visitors about history, culture, science, and the arts in a nonpartisan manner.
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Brilliant Reimagining of Huckleberry Finn’s Jim by Percival Everett Redefines American Literature
Percival Everett’s reimagining of Mark Twain’s classic “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” as a reimagining of Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion, redefining American literature and challenging literary norms.
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Is Vladimir Putin the Devil?
There is nothing good to be said about the Devil. If you don’t believe me, check out Bible. Or just turn on the television for a reporting of the evil he spreads throughout the world. You will likely see his picture, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.
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Despite Misinformation and Distractions, Biden-Harris Accomplishing Black Agenda
NNPA NEWSWIRE — During and exclusive interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond, says that the deliberate misinformation published by news outlets and posted on social media is meant to undermine the President and Democrats. Notably, the dubious accounts aim to suppress the Black vote further, Richmond declared.
Posted in#NNPA BlackPress, Black Experience, Black History, Commentary, Community, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, Politics, Roger Caldwell
COMMENTARY: Black Lives Matter and The Color of Your Skin
NNPA NEWSWIRE _ History in America has demonstrated that White citizens will make war, and justifying horrific atrocities against Black people, including lynching. Even after slavery was abolished, there was still lynching, and many today believe police brutality is still connected to the history of lynching. There were 3436 people lynched from 1889 to 1932, and the majority was Black people, according to publisher Ida Wells.
Posted in#NNPA BlackPress, Black History, Community, Economy, Education, Featured, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, Politics, Stacy Brown
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Day of Remembrance
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It is important to recognize the International Decade for People of African Descent as an international corrective to combat the systematic indoctrination of the lie of African inferiority,” said Dr. Kevin Cokley, the director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis. “Passing H.R. 40 would count as the most significant legislative achievement to impact the victims of the transatlantic slave trade.”
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New Study: Innocent Blacks Seven Times More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Than Innocent Whites
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The nonprofit legal organization committed to exonerating wrongly convicted individuals also noted that Black people are more likely to be wrongly convicted of murder when the victim is White. Among Black people exonerated of murder convictions, approximately 31 percent were wrongly convicted of killing White people. However, only 15 percent of homicides by Black people involve White victims, the National Registry of Exonerations reported.
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Slavery Part IV: The Economic Engine of the New Nation
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Slavery may have ended in 1865, but a slaveholder mentality persisted, shaping the contours of American life for decades to come. This legacy of slavery is very much what African Americans have been fighting against from the moment of emancipation through the present.”
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The ‘Roots’ of Slavery and its Lasting Effects
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Still, those names come with a price because many agree that hate is as American as Apple Pie and baseball. And, victims of such hate not only include the once enslaved African American, but America is a country where it once was illegal for all women to vote.
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The Catholic Church Played Major Role in Slavery
In 2016, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. offered a public apology after acknowledging that 188 years prior, Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to save the school from financial ruin.
