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Friday, February 27, 2015

Dr John Hope Franklin on meeting Dr W E B Du Bois

On the heels of the whitest Oscars since 1998, Patricia Arquette's semi-accidental rebel call for "gay people and people of color" to fight for women's rights, and a generally rising tide of consciousness about how minorities are treated in Hollywood, HBO announced that it will launch a new fellowship geared specifically towards diversity.

On Wednesday, the network that currently has hit

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Crisis of Leadership in Chicago - Harold Washington @ Univ of IL 1982

The son of a sharecropper, the University of Washington graduate became a highly respected macroeconomist…
http://www.blackenterprise.com/mag/dean-black-economists-dr-andrew-f-brimmer/


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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Michael Brown's Funeral Eulogy by Al Sharpton

Michael Brown's Funeral Eulogy by Al Sharpton




References:

Michael Brown funeral: 'The value of this boy's life must be ...
http://www.theguardian.com/tone/blog
Al Sharpton speaks at the funeral service for Michael Brown at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 25 August 2014. Photograph: ROBERT ... Another key line from his eulogy, via MSNBC:.

'MOMENT

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