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Today In History
- In 1839- Cinque, origially Senghbe, the son of a Mende king, along with several other Africans, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba
- In 1911- Samuel Battle becomes first Black police officer for NYPD
- In 1971- U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
To Inspire You
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If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois’s famous words, ‘the problem of the color line,’ then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification
Naomi Murakawa
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