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  • WHEN MORGAN MET MIKE

    02/05/2024 5:51:18 AM PST · by Rummyfan · 8 replies
    Powerline ^ | 5 Feb2024 | LLoyd Billingsley
    It’s Black History Month. Back in 2005 on CBS “60 Minutes,” Mike Wallace told actor Morgan Freeman: “Black History Month, you find. . . . “ “Ridiculous.” “Why?” “You`re going to relegate my history to a month?” “Come on.” “What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.” “I’m Jewish.” “Okay. Which month is Jewish History Month? “There isn’t one.” “Why not? Do you want one?” “No, no.” “I don’t either. I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” “How are we going to get rid of racism until...
  • Five Shot During Minnesota ‘Celebration of Life’ Event

    02/26/2023 7:05:15 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/26/2023 | Awr Hawkins
    Five people were shot, two of them fatally, during a “Celebration of Life” event Saturday around 5:15 p.m. in St. Paul, Minnesota. FOX News reports one man died at the scene and another man died after being transported to the hospital. FOX 9 notes among the three living gunshot victims, one person is in critical condition, another person is stable, and one has non-life-threatening injuries.
  • Arizona man fatally beats coworker with baseball bat at Intel cafeteria: police

    02/19/2023 1:23:01 PM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 96 replies
    Derrick Lemond Simmons, 50, was arrested after he attacked the unnamed coworker with a bat, knife and hatchet at the semiconductor manufacturer’s Ocotillo campus on Saturday, according to court documents obtained by Arizona Family. Chandler police responding to the scene found one person dead with fatal blunt force trauma injuries and another person injured.
  • Republican Sen. Tim Scott Prepares for Presidential Run - South Carolinian would join a 2024 primary field looking to wrest party mantle from Donald Trump

    02/13/2023 8:54:27 AM PST · by Perseverando · 82 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | February 13, 2023 | Eliza Collins
    South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is taking steps to run for president, people familiar with his plans said, adding to the stable of Republicans looking to wrest the party mantle from former President Donald Trump. Mr. Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, is testing a message with GOP voters in key early states focused on unity and optimism as some Republicans say it is time to move on from the Trump era. Mr. Trump has announced a bid for president in the 2024 election. Jennifer DeCasper, a Scott senior adviser, said he was “excited to share his vision...
  • Don't blame Uncle Tom

    02/10/2023 9:37:44 AM PST · by GreenCell · 6 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 19 Jun 2020 | Betsy Reed (editor)
    The hero of a novel published 150 years ago has become a byword for black betrayal and subservience. But has he been misrepresented? Gary Younge defends Harriet Beecher Stowe's iconic fictional slave. I had my family watch this complete story...what an inspiration.
  • New York school, food vendor apologize for serving chicken and waffles on first day of Black History Month.

    02/05/2023 8:13:14 AM PST · by Carriage Hill · 122 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2.4.2023 | Andrew Mark Miller
    A New York middle school is apologizing after serving students with a meal on the first day of Black History Month that was deemed to be culturally insensitive. Administrators at Nyack Middle School say that the hot lunch menu was changed by the vendor without their knowledge on February 1st, the first day of Black History Month, to include chicken and waffles with a watermelon dessert which the school’s principal called an "unfortunate situation", The Journal News reported.
  • Aramark apologizes for serving racially insensitive meal at Nyack Middle School on first day of Black History Month

    02/05/2023 4:59:05 AM PST · by allen592 · 158 replies
    CBS News ^ | FEBRUARY 3, 202 | James Alain L.
    Black History Month is a time to honor triumphs of African Americans throughout history, but students and parents at Nyack Middle School raised the alarm after a racially insensitive meal was offered on the first day of the month. Honore Santiago's mother reassured her daughter, who is in the sixth grade, saying, "You should feel very happy that you spoke up."
  • Why Ed Sullivan Matters to Black History

    02/02/2023 12:19:51 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 22 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | Kevin Powell | February 1, 2023
    Because he was such an icon, he was able to have Black artists on TV when they were often not welcomed nor wanted elsewhere.I cannot recall when I first heard the name Ed Sullivan, but it certainly had to have been when I was a ghetto youth coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s. I initially connected his name with music superstars Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and their now legendary appearances on his variety show. I was intrigued by how he introduced musical guests, his mightily distinctive diction, his genuinely low-key demeanor. But I had no clue, truly,...
  • Black August uplifted as alternative Black History Month

    08/25/2022 5:56:44 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 50 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | August 25, 2022 | By ALMAZ ABEDJE
    WASHINGTON (AP) — For Jonathan Peter Jackson, a direct relative of two prominent members of the Black Panther Party, revolutionary thought and family history have always been intertwined, particularly in August. That’s the month in 1971 when his uncle, the famed Panther George Jackson, was killed during an uprising at San Quentin State Prison in California. A revolutionary whose words resonated inside and out of the prison walls, he was a published author, activist and radical thought leader. To many, February is the month dedicated to celebrating Black Americans’ contributions to a country where they were once enslaved. But Black...
  • Woman escapes with her life as carjackers open fire on her in Buckhead

    02/28/2022 6:44:23 PM PST · by Cecily · 71 replies
    Fox 5 Atlanta ^ | February 28, 2022 | Aungelique Proctor
    ATLANTA - Bold carjackers shot at a woman who was slow to give up her car during a Sunday morning Buckhead carjacking. Fortunately the woman dove out of her car and was not injured. The alarming attack happened at 8:26am Sunday morning at the intersection of Peachtree and West Paces Ferry Roads. The female motorist was on East Paces Ferry Road at the red-light when she noticed two men who pulled behind her and jumped out trying to take her Nissan Sentra. When the woman attempted to drive off, the suspects started firing. The woman dove out of the car,...
  • Cops release new photo of suspect in NYC subway station hammer attack

    02/26/2022 11:51:50 AM PST · by thegagline · 35 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 02/26/2022 | Dean Balsamini
    As a courageous city health worker remained hospitalized following a vicious subway station assault, the NYPD released an additional photo of the maniac mugger wanted for bludgeoning her with a hammer. The disturbing Thursday night assault of Nina Rothschild at the Queens Plaza E, M and R station was caught on video. Rothschild was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition with a fractured skull and bleeding to her brain, according to cops and sources. The Queens woman was listed in stable condition early Saturday, according to an NYPD spokesman, who did not elaborate. Rothschild’s unhinged attacker, a...
  • This Black History Month, Let's Make History

    02/24/2022 7:07:35 AM PST · by Kaslin · 9 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2022 | Armstrong Williams
    As we celebrate Black History Month and the great accomplishments of African Americans to the United States since its founding, I wanted to take a different perspective -- one that focuses on what Black Americans must do to achieve economic and generational prosperity. We must be concerned about the plight of many Black communities in the United States, which are plagued by high poverty, high crime and dismal educational systems. We must first recognize that these issues are neither ordained nor inevitable but rather require significant transformation. This is accomplished by emphasizing faith, family and education as key ingredients in...
  • Learning the Lessons of Black History

    02/16/2022 3:37:24 AM PST · by Kaslin · 14 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 16, 2022 | Star Parker
    February is Black History Month. Why do we need Black History Month? Why don't we set aside special occasions to observe the history of other ethnicities in our country? My answer to this question is that Black history tells a uniquely important story in our nation. It is a story that no other race or ethnicity shares. It is a story that must be grasped and understood if we are to understand our country as a whole, where it has been and where it needs to go. Unique among a large percentage of Black Americans is a history in which...
  • 'I'm just tired of being terrorized like my grandparents were': More than a dozen HBCUs got bomb threats on the 1st day of Black History Month

    02/02/2022 10:54:28 AM PST · by Mr.Unique · 71 replies
    CNN ^ | February 1, 2022 | Alisha Ebrahimji, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy
    A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have had to lock down or postpone classes due to bomb threats on the first day of Black History Month. At least 14 HBCUs reported bomb threats Tuesday. At least one of them, Howard University, also received a bomb threat Monday. "We've had these challenges before," Howard University President Wayne Frederick said Tuesday. But "since I've been here (as a student) in 1988, it has not been this widespread and also, I think, this overt." See article for locations.
  • VIDEO: Watch Joe Biden Lying in 1986 About Participating in Desegregation

    02/01/2022 9:12:06 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | February 1, 2022 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOMany people think that Joe Biden bragging about taking part in civil rights marches and desegregating movie theaters is only a recent phenomenon. As it turns out, Biden has been LYING about this for decades. In this video you can see Biden LYING to the NAACP convention in 1986 about marching for civil rights and desegregating a movie theater in Delaware.
  • Five Life-Affirming Lessons for Black History Month

    02/01/2022 5:46:42 AM PST · by Kaslin · 9 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2022 | Ryan Bomberger
    Biologically, I’m black and white. As an adoptee with brown skin from a very diverse family, I’m grateful that my mother (who happens to have skin much lighter than mine) provided all kinds of books about black American history-makers. There are so many incredible stories that should be intertwined in an educational fabric that celebrates every thread from every hue of trailblazer. But we shouldn’t have separate months to teach fractured history based on color or gender. It's all American history. Frederick Douglass’ The North Star newspaper had a slogan that sums up how we should look at humanity: “Right...
  • Black History as American History

    02/01/2022 5:19:55 AM PST · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2022 | Ken Blackwell
    Today, Americans of all stripes are constantly bombarded with an insidious propaganda campaign against our shared history. From Critical Race Theory to ripping down historical statues, our national story is being rewritten as irredeemably sinful. These efforts have taken a particularly racialized characteristic by implying that Black history is somehow distinct from, or in opposition to, “American history” itself, rather than an integral part of it. Looking back to our past, we realize that this narrative of scorn isn’t how the great heroes of American history saw their homeland. The American patriots we still honor today—including African Americans—did not see...
  • George Floyd’s toxicology report pinned to Black History Month display at Duke

    03/26/2021 12:40:49 PM PDT · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 55 replies
    Ny post.com ^ | 3/26/21 | Gabrielle Fonrogue
    George Floyd’s toxicology report pinned to Black History Month display at Duke Duke University is investigating how a printout of George Floyd’s toxicology report, with comments insinuating his death was related to drugs, ended up pinned to a Black History Month bulletin board display on campus, according to the school and reports. The flier was found Saturday pinned to a display honoring black victims of police violence and was inscribed with handwritten remarks in pink pen that said: “Mix of drugs presents in difficulty breathing! Overdose? Good Man? Use of fake currency is a felony!”
  • Booker T. Washington and the Many He Influenced

    02/27/2021 8:29:22 AM PST · by Kaslin · 25 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 27, 2021 | Timothy Nash
    Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Kent M. MacDonald.As longtime admirers of legendary civil rights pioneer and educational entrepreneur Booker T. Washington, we felt compelled to pay tribute to this profoundly influential American during Black History Month. Born into slavery on April 18, 1856 in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, Washington died a free man 59 years later on November 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama. From a young age, he understood the power of education. He worked hard and earned degrees from Hampton Normal, an agricultural institute (today Hampton University) and Wayland Seminary. Washington became recognized as a leading educator, author,...
  • Amazon Prime Yanks Justice Clarence Thomas Documentary During Black History Month

    02/26/2021 9:07:46 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    Human Events ^ | 02/26/2021
    Amazon has shown its true colors, once again, when it comes to celebrating and appreciating diversity: if your ideals don’t align with the team-left narrative, you will not be celebrated. In the midst of Black History Month, Amazon pulled a critically acclaimed and popular documentary on conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black justice currently serving on the Supreme Court, from its streaming platform. The documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” is “currently unavailable to watch in your location,” the website reads when the title is clicked. The outage appears to be nationwide, as reported by Breitbart.Amazon...