Best Melanin Minute Podcasts (2024)

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How artificial intelligence may help reduce global police brutality 1:56

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Hello and welcome to our channel. Today, we'll be discussing how artificial intelligence may help reduce global police brutality. First, it's important to note that police brutality is a complex issue with no easy solutions. However, AI technology has the potential to play a significant role in reducing instances of police brutality through several…

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Five ways to end police brutality in Nigeria 1:00

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1. Implementing police reform: This includes increasing accountability for police officers, improving training, and ensuring that officers are held responsible for any misconduct. 2. Increasing transparency and oversight: This can be done by setting up independent bodies to investigate complaints against the police, and by making police operations …

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In Anambra, three people were killed as they clashed with the police. 1:32

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Over the weekend, the situation in the Aguleri village, which is located in the Anambra East Local Government Area of the state of Anambra, was thrown into chaos after the police opened fire on protesting youngsters from the community. According to reports, things got off to a rocky start on Saturday morning when the police opened fire on two juven…

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Huge masked Brother man cop attacks woman in park at night 1:30

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In the land of the free, if a police officer desires to extort you, even for a minor offence in which there is no victim, they may and will use force to do so. Angel Guice, who had never before interacted with police, learned this lesson the hard way over the weekend when an Atlanta police officer assaulted her during an extortion attempt. #policeb…

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"Mommy Help": Cops Pin Down Teen in Front of His Parents for Six Minutes Until He Stops Breathing and Dies 2:47

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On September 15, 2018, Anton Black's family watched in horror as Greensboro police officers followed their 19-year-old son to the door of their house, pinned him down, and then kneeled on him for six minutes until he became unconscious and died. Since that awful day over four years ago, no one has been held responsible for his death. #policebrutali…

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Cop Sexually Assaults Man with Anal Cavity in Public Search for Non-Existent Pharmaceuticals 5:34

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In the apparent country of liberty, you are not free to do as you choose with your body. From mandated vaccines to abortions after rape, the state will stop at nothing in its terrifying quest to control the single thing you have complete control over. As the vaccine and abortion debates boil on, another equally horrific infringement of bodily auton…

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Body Cam Captures Police Killing a Handcuffed Woman by Dropping Her From a Patrol Car 10:00

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Prior to her tragic death last month, Brianna Grier, like so many others before her, was afflicted with mental illness. Occasionally, this mother of two would need hospitalisation in order to regain her ability to function. But when police officers, instead of EMS, arrived and took Brianna to prison instead of the hospital, Brianna never had a chan…

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Cop Jumps on Unarmed Man's Back and Shoots Him in the Head Over Laundry Detergent 15:10

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This week, a horrifying video of a police-involved shooting was released, showing Harris County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Garrett Hardin crawling over the back of Roderick Brooks and shooting him in the back of the head. Brooks was accused of stealing detergent from a Dollar General store nearby. When he was slain, he was unarmed. #policebrutalitym…

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Body cam shows cop shooting unarmed 13-year-old with hands up, paralysing him 1:33

2y ago1:33

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Another unarmed 13-year-old was shot by a Chicago police officer. The boy's hands were up; he posed no danger, and he was only a passenger in a car that was suspected of being stolen. Since that day, more than two months have passed, and we have recently heard that the officer who shot the youngster did not activate his body camera. However, a near…

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Cops killed a pregnant mom in front of kids after she called for help. 4:03

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On a June Sunday afternoon in 2017, a pregnant woman's 911 call resulted in her death at the hands of responding officers. Since that awful day, Charleena Lyles's family has fought for justice, but this month they learned there would be none. #charleenalyles #usa #seattle #911 #policebrutalitymatters #officerofthedamnlaw #pbwwchannel . . . . . . . …

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July 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:06

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 5. Frederick Douglass gave his speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?". He was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author. He became the first Black U.S. marshal. Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot Cou…

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July 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:57

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 4. Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche receive the first Medals of Freedom. She was an American singer, and an important figure in the struggle for African-American artists to overcome racial prejudice. Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, member of the United Nations for more…

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July 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:17

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 3. Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. After demonstrating exceptional athletic abili…

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July 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:54

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 2. Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African American civil rights movement, as non-vio…

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July 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:52

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 1st. Roland Hayes named soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first African American singer to achieve success on the classical concert stage. Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, to Fanny and William Hayes, who were former slaves. He wanted an education, but he had to drop o…

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A video shows officers surrounding an unarmed man and shooting him sixty times. 18:48

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Jayland Walker, 25, was an outstanding wrestler at Buchtel High School, from which he graduated in 2015, before he was shot on Monday using bullets paid for by taxpayers. According to his relatives, he worked for Amazon before becoming a DoorDash driver and was engaged. Walker escaped a traffic check for a minor infraction, prompting three cops to …

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¨Freddie Gray on Video¨: Cops Slam Brakes, Sending Him Flying 21:05

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Randy Cox was detained on June 19 for an alleged firearms charge. Moments later, he was paralyzed below the waist, his treatment resembling that of Freddie Gray, who was slain by police on a similar journey. However, Cox's abuse was recorded on camera this time. #Randycox #Freddiegray #amerikkka #pbwwchannel #officerofthedamnlaw #usa #policebrutali…

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June 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:54

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 30. Lena Horne was born. She was an African-American dancer, actress, Grammy-winning singer, and civil rights activist. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City. She was discovered by producer John Hammond,…

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June 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:54

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 29. NAACP chairman S.G. Spottswood criticize Nixon's administration. Stephen Gill Spottswood was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He went on to Albright College, earning a B.A. in history in 1917; Gordon Divinity School; and Yale Divinity School, where he earned his doctorate. He joined the N…

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June 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:48

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 28. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the use of racial quotas for university applications. The medical school at the University of California, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent of its admission places for minority applicants. Allan Bakke, a wh…

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June 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:58

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 27. Frederick Jones invents the ticket dispensing machine. He was an U.S. inventor credited with more than 60 patents. After a challenging childhood, Jones taught himself mechanical and electrical engineering, inventing a range of devices relating to refrigeration, sound, and automobiles. I…

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June 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:00

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 26. Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance began in Cairo, Illinois. Despite Illinois’s relatively liberal reputation, Cairo, a small city far south from Chicago, was thoroughly segregated and violently racist. Local youths formed the Cairo Nonviolent Freedom Committee (CNVFC) and inv…

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June 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:10

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 25. Sonia Sotomayor was born. She is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman of color, first Hispanic, and first Latina member of the Court. Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bronx. After the death of her father, her mother worked long …

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June 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:51

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 24. John R. Lynch became first African-American to preside over deliberations of a national political party. Born into slavery in Louisiana, he became free in 1863 under the Emancipation Proclamation. He became active in the Republican Party by the age of 20. Although too young to participa…

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June 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:01

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 23. Wilma Rudolph was born. She was an American sprinter, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was twelve years old. Because there was little medical care av…

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June 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:14

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 22. Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to the NCAA tennis championship. Ashe was coached and mentored by Robert Walter Johnson at his tennis summer-camp home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Johnson helped fine-tune Ashe's game and taught him the importance of racial socialization through sportsmanship, etiquet…

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BlackFacts Presents - The History of Juneteenth 5:54

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JUNETEENTH - A Celebration of Freedom. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. It is now celebrated annually on the 19th of June throughout the United States. HI…

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June 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:03

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 21. Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner was born. He was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. After a childhood spent largely in Philadelphia, Tanner began an art career in earnest in 1876,painting harbour scenes, landscapes, and animals from the …

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Cop charged after attacking, knocking down woman walking her dog 2:49

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In 2021, a video of a Chicago police officer assaulting an innocent lady went viral. Many said it was racial profiling. COPA investigated suspected misbehavior. The officer was arrested this month for excessive violence and misconduct. . . . . . Link for the full story:https://www.policebrutalityworldwide.com/2022/06/cop-charged-after-attacking-kno…

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June 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:40

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 20. Harry Belafonte became the first African American to win an Emmy award. As one of the most successful African-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the “King of Calypso” for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. He was an early supp…

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June 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:56

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 19. Solidarity Day March In November 1967 civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) met and decided to launch a Poor People’s Campaign to highlight and find solutions to many of the problems facing the country’s poor. T…

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June 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:32

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 18. W.H. Richardson patents Baby Buggy. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he made a huge improvement to the baby carriage. Richardson decided to create a stroller to be shaped more like a symmetrical basket, rather than a shell, as it was back then. This new design made it easier for …

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June 17 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:10

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 17. Tuskegee Boycott began. The issue of the boycott was segregation and voting rights. The voting districts for the city of Tuskegee were changed dramatically to prevent black citizens from electing local officials. The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA), a predominantly black organization w…

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June 16 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:11

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 16. Kenneth A. Gibson became the first African American mayor of Newark. He entered politics in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement, by joining the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congress of Racial Equality (COR…

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June 15 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:30

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 15. Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, the eldest of five brothers. His mother, Isabelle Flipper, and his father, Festus Flipper, a shoemaker, and carriag…

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June 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:49

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 14. William H. Gray was elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. He graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1959 and enrolled in Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, majoring in sociology. In 1972, Gray succeeded his father as the senior minister at Br…

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June 13 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:04

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 13. Thurgood Marshall named the first African-American Court's justice. After being rejected by the University of Maryland Law School because he was not white, Marshall attended Howard University Law School; he received his degree in 1933, ranking first in his class. He established a privat…

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June 12 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:59

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 12. Michael Jordan leads Chicago to 1st NBA Title. The Chicago Bulls defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 108-101 at the Great Western Forum to capture the NBA Finals in five games. It was the Bulls’ first-ever NBA title in their 25th anniversary season in the league. Jordan scored 30 points and…

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June 11 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:19

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 11. Kennedy's Report to the American People on Civil Rights. It was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kennedy was initially caut…

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June 10 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:59

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 10. Howlin' Wolf was born. Born as Chester Arthur Burnett, he was an American blues singer and composer who was one of the principal exponents of the urban blues style of Chicago. He was brought up on a cotton plantation, and the music he heard was the traditional tunes of the region. He st…

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June 9 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:57

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 9. Oliver W. Hill became the 1st Black person elected to the city council in Richmond, Virginia. He was a prominent civil rights attorney. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." Hill first practiced law in Roanoke, Virginia, before settling i…

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June 8 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:15

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 8. James Earl Ray, the suspect in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, was captured. On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr, was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine. During the next several w…

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June 7 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:21

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 7. Nikki Giovanni was born. She is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tennessee, and in 1960 she entered Nashville’s Fisk University. By 1967, when she received a B.A., she was firmly committed to the civil rig…

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June 6 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:42

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 6. Marian Wright Edelman was born. She is an American attorney and civil rights activist who founded the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973. After work registering African American voters in Mississippi, she moved to New York City as a staff attorney for the Legal Defense and Educational Fund …

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June 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:46

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 5. American Negro Theater was formed. It was an African American theatre company that was active in the Harlem district of New York City from 1940 to 1951. It provided professional training and critical exposure to African American actors, actresses, and playwrights by creating and producin…

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June 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:09

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 4. Angela Davis was acquitted by a white jury. She is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author of over ten books on class, feminism, race, and the US prison system. Born to an African-American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis Universit…

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June 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:45

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 3. Physician Charles Drew was born. He was an African American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion. Drew was educated at Amherst College, McGill University, Montreal, and Columbia University. While earning his doctorate at Columbia i…

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June 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:52

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 2. James Augustine Healy became the first Black Roman Catholic Bishop in USA. Healy was one of 10 children born on a Georgia cotton plantation to an Irish immigrant and his common-law wife, a mixed-race slave. Because Healy and his siblings were legally considered illegitimate and slaves, t…

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June 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:50

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 1st. White House Conference on Civil Rights The aim of the conference was built on the momentum of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in addressing discrimination against African Americans. The four areas of discussion were housing, economic security, education, …

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May 31 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:34

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 31. Jesse Dwight Locker was born. He was an attorney, politician and, the second black American appointed as ambassador. Locker graduated valedictorian of his class at College Hill High School and graduated from Howard University with a law degree in 1945. He led the North Ward Progressive R…

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