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The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist befor...

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The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote...

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I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruis...

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Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there...

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When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before...

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Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic p...

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A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take...

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No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds o...

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Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crim...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

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W. E. B. Du BoisBlack Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly,...

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