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Did you know a white cook’s refusal to serve sandwich triggered racial violence on the USS Kitty Hawk in 1972?
About 302 black sailors had become tired of the discrimination being meted out to them in the navy by white sailors and captains. In the Navy at the time, black sailors were typically assigned to the ship’s...
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Father jailed 8 years for killing man who attempted breaking into daughter’s bathroom stall
The universal code demands balance for the sane interaction among humans as well as their interaction with the environment. But a 40-year-old is finding out the hard way he wasn’t to take the law...
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Was Jesus Christ black? This scholar argues so
What imagery do you hold of Jesus the Christ said to have hailed from Nazareth? Given that he is the central figure of Christianity and most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and...
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Bryan Stevenson; the man rescuing condemned inmates from the clutches of death
Bryan Stevenson qualifies to be part of the ‘a few good men’ tag. Stevenson has made it his life’s work to battle the cases of the condemned on America’s death row. In his campaign...
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Made to sleep on the floor, getting whipped – Ex-slaves first hand account of their ordeal
The ordeal enslaved Africans went through is told by people who perhaps had knowledge of the happenings, but we get a rare glimpse into what life was like for an enslaved from his of her own experience...
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Five inmates dead, two escape from Mississippi Prison as gang riot escalates
Despite Mississippi ranking among the states with the highest incarceration rates, correctional officers in Mississippi are the lowest-paid in their profession nationwide, according to government data,...
