“[Gary] Webb spent more than a year uncovering the shady connection between the CIA and drug trafficking through the agency’s relationship with the Nicaraguan contras, a right-wing army that aimed to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government during the 1980s. The Sandinistas were Marxist rebels who came to power in 1979 after the collapse of decades […]
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TODAY IS BUY BLACK FRIDAY
PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: The camera sees what you want it to see.” -James Baldwin Tweet
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“And that’s the absolute difference between corporate and entrepreneurial mindsets. A suit looks at reports. If reports say this is selling, it’s design more of this. The entrepreneur says, ‘I feel a change coming around the bend, we need to get out of this and start getting into that, That is the new trend.’ the […]
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“Well arranged plans with inflexibility of purpose will always ensure victory.” -Will Thomas Tweet
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“Colonized people must be controlled. Poor people must be controlled. We must never think of revolution. The ‘Christian’ church and the Jewish synagogue must teach s that love and patience are good. But if this doesn’t work- then assassination, the ultimate control.” -James Forman Tweet
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St. Elmo Brady (The first African-American PhD in Chemistry) (standing to the far right) being a professor to his chemistry class. Tweet
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St. Elmo Brady was the first African-American to earn a PhD in Chemistry. He accomplished this feat in 1916 at the University of Illinois. Tweet
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“It must be clearly understood that the nature of the colonial experience is that racism is inherent in all its manifestations. Even though the dispossessed unite with the dispossessed, or even if the exploiters who are responsible for the colonizing are kicked out, the legacy of racism and remnants of the colonial experience remain and […]
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