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Al Roker urges Black men to take charge of their health, including prostate health, since they are 50% more likely to develop prostate cancer and twice as likely to die from it.

Get a prostate cancer screening if you are a man. Get a breast cancer screening if you are a woman. It's time for us to take charge of our own health.

#prostatecancer #alroker #health #cancerscreenings

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But yet, these people have always been treated poorly by a country where they lived before anyone else.

#justice #racisminamerica #hatred #jealousy #racialprofiling #corruptpoliticians #injustices #racialtrauma #policemurders

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Why do so many people believe the lies they have been fed from birth? Racist police always scream "I feared for my life so I killed them, even though they were unarmed.

#whitecrime #racists #racisminamerica #Globalracism #institutionalracism #policeviolence #corruptpoliticians #hatred #racialprofiling #blacklivesmatter #policebrutality #policemurders #injustices #racialtrauma #police violence #blacklivesstillmatter #systemicracism

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Born in Joplin, Missouri February 1, 1901, James Mercer Langston Hughes had already spent two years in Paris working as a busboy in a Montmartre restaurant owned by WWI pilot Eugene Jacques Bullard. It was in that club he first heard the music of Black American jazz greats who fled to France following the war. One of the earliest innovators of “jazz poetry”, Hughes is best known as the Poet Lauréat of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes died May 22, 1967 in NYC

#Langstonhughes

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Antioch police officers named in racist texting scandal conspired to ‘injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate’ residents, lawsuit claims. The lawsuit adds to a mounting pile of allegations against the embattled Antioch Police Department, which saw numerous officers indicted last year on a litany of state and federal charges. Check out the full story at: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/05/09/antioch-police-officers-named-in-racist-texting-scandal-conspired-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-residents-lawsuit-claims/m

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On this day - May 09, 1961

John Lewis and Two Others Attacked at South Carolina Greyhound Bus Terminal

On May 9, 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis, a young Black civil rights activist, was severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal. A few days earlier, Mr. Lewis and 12 other Freedom Riders had left Washington, D.C., on a Greyhound bus headed to New Orleans. The Freedom Riders—seven of whom were Black and six of whom were white—sat interracially on the bus, planning to test a Supreme Court ruling that made segregation in interstate transportation illegal. 

The Freedom Riders rode safely through Virginia and North Carolina but experienced violence when they stopped at the bus station in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and tried to enter the white waiting room together. John Lewis and two other Riders were brutally attacked before a white police officer, who had been present the entire time, finally intervened. The Freedom Riders responded with nonviolence and decided not to press charges, continuing their protest ride further south where they experienced continued violence from white mobs in Alabama.

Nearly 47 years later, Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols apologized to John Lewis, by then a U.S. Congressman representing Georgia. In 2009, one of his attackers, former Klansman Elwin Wilson, also apologized. "I don't hold the town any more responsible than those men who beat us," Congressman Lewis has said about the community of Rock Hill, "and I saw those men as victims of the same system of segregation and hatred."

#racisminamerica #hatred #freedomriders #civilrights #racists #police brutality #policeviolence #policebrutality #racialprofiling #blacklivesmatter #racialtrauma #injustices #corruptpoliticians #policemurders #blacklivesstillmatter #law enforcement #police violence

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Will the police ever stop killing Black people?

#stopkillingblackpeople #policebrutality #policeviolence #racialprofiling #hatred #injustices #racialtrauma #policemurders #blacklivesstillmatter #blacklivesmatter #racisminamerica #civilrights #racialdiscrimination #racialinjustices

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In memory of those who chose the sea.. —The "Igbo Landing" story — In an act of mass resistance against slavery, a group of slaves revolted, took control of the slave ship grounded it on an island & rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march into the water & drown.

As you can see, the hatred of America against Black people has gone on for centuries and it needs to be stopped by any means necessary.

#racism #systemic racism #policebrutality #racialprofiling #hatred #policeviolence #blacklivesmatter #injustices #racialtrauma #policemurders #institutional racism #racial equality #racial justice #racial slurs #racial diversity #racisminamerica

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On this day - May 08, 2009

Ku Klux Klan Burns Cross in Black Neighborhood in Alabama

On May 8, 2009, Steven Joshua Dinkle of the Ozark, Alabama, chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), burned a cross in a local Black neighborhood. Joined by a KKK recruit named Thomas Windell Smith, Mr. Dinkle targeted the neighborhood because of the race of its residents.

Confederate veterans founded the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. From beneath white hoods, they terrorized formerly enslaved Black people and their political allies with threats, beatings, and murder. They strived to undermine Reconstruction and restore racial subordination in the South. Faced with federal opposition, the Klan dissolved by the 1870s but reemerged early in the next century at the height of the era of racial terror. By the 21st century, several offshoot Klan organizations remained a small but persistent source of hate violence.

On the night of May 8, Mr. Dinkle and Mr. Smith built a wooden cross about six feet tall and drove it over to the entrance of the Black neighborhood around 8 pm. They dug a hole in the ground in view of several houses, then stood the cross upright in the hole and lit it on fire before driving away.

Both men were arrested and pled guilty to conspiracy to violate housing rights. At Mr. Dinkle’s plea hearing, he admitted that he burned the cross to scare the members of the African American community in Ozark and that he was motivated to burn the cross because he did not like that African Americans were occupying homes in that area.

#racisminamerica #blacklivesmatter #policebrutality #policeviolence #hatred #racialprofiling #injustices #corruptpoliticians #racialtrauma #systemicracism #policemurders #blacklivesstillmatter

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