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“[America practices] socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor.” -Martin Luther King Jr. Tweet
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“The 1800s in America was a time when a few ruthless individuals gained most of the country’s wealth. Banker J.P. Morgan once refused a loan to the U.S. government because, he said, it lacked collateral. Cleveland’s John D. Rockefeller began his business career as an accountant, heading a firm that investigates the potential of oil […]
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Alaska is a state that does not have sales tax or income tax. According to the June 2018 issue of National Geographic, in Alaska: “The oil and gas industry funds 90 percent of the state budget- plus an annual dividend of over $1,000 to each Alaskan- mostly through a tax of North Slope oil flowing […]
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“In 1917, the U.S. bought the Dutch West Indies for $125 million and renamed them the U.S. Virgin Islands. WWI was underway, and Uncle Sam wanted the islands as a naval base to protect the strategically important Panama Canal. The U.S. government assigned the administration of the islands to the Department of the Navy.” -From, […]
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“Ours is a society in which the actor is more important than the real-life hero the actor portrays.” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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Sweet Science 135 Graham Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11206 The food was delicious! Tweet
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I purchased this over-sized toothbrush from one of my favorite Black-owned retailers (Anwaar Co. 354 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11217). This toothbrush is great for dental care because it covers so much surface area of your teeth. Tweet
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“As he ran my papers, I was reminded of the armed white men, dubbed ‘pattie rollers’ by African Americans, who were deployed throughout the South to patrol and prevent slave rebellions. These patrols, which white men in the South were required to serve in, operated exclusively at night, traveling on horseback from plantation to plantation, […]
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“Find out just what people will submit to and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong, which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” […]
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