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Racism Built America. Racism Is Tearing It Down

By Edrea Davis – America was built on racism through stolen labor, stolen land, and stolen opportunity. Enslaved Black people built wealth they were never allowed to share. They cleared land, raised crops, built institutions, created commerce, and laid the foundation for an economy that enriched others while denying them wages, safety, family stability, education, […]

Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable Launches “Overload the Polls” With Early Voting Push, Free Rides to Vote and Election Protection

Shackles on your Bankrolls – Commentary By Lucius Gantt

(The Gantt Report) – The ancestors of African Americans were kidnapped from the shores of their Motherland and transported to America on slave ships to make European colonizers filthy rich. From day one of our American existence, the status of Black people in this capitalist society has always been about the money. The history that […]

National Urban League Unveils Congressional Blueprint for Affordability for All