The Crisis Magazine

@NAACP's official pub of politics, culture, civil rights, & history; serving and informing communities of color. Founding editor W.E.B. Du Bois

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"Speaking at FNCE, Keith Barr PhD, a researcher at University of California at Davis, explained tendons and…" https://t.co/wRf8ZMtLH5

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Two of the nation's top journalists - MacArthur Genius Fellows Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones - will be teaching at Howard University, helping to train the next generation of Black journalists. #HBCU #journalism
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"African Americans have endured generations of economic racism. This racism has resulted in low wages, low home ownership and little-to-no savings or investments..." Journalist Rodney Brooks writes about the persistent #wealthgap in America. @Perfiguy
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"Black people survived the Middle Passage, 400 years of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and countless wars. We are and will survive HIV/AIDS. But our entire story must be told. We have to put ourselves back in the narrative." @iamphillwilson @blackaids
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#OTD in 1967, Thurgood Marshall of Lincoln University and Howard University School of Law, was nominated to the US Supreme Court. Though best known for Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall argued cases around #housing discrimination and #VotingRights
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The Lovings didn't set out to make history, they just wanted to love in each other in peace. #LovingDay #CivilRights #SocialJustice
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On the #wealthgap, Tyson Brown of Duke University notes "Many Black older Americans have endured decades of overt and subtle forms of discrimination in educational, criminal justice systems, health care, jobs, housing, credit and consumer markets." https://t.co/U57PschmZ3

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The Black and White wealth gap increases as we age. Veteran journalist Rodney A. Brooks tells us why in this report: https://t.co/U57PschmZ3
@perfiguy #health #wealth #race #disparities

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Kemter's mic was cut off when he started talking about how freed Black people were among the first to commemorate Memorial Day following the surrender of the Confederacy. @NAACP @DerrickNAACP
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The NAACP's Walter White "traveled to Tulsa in disguise to survey the damage caused by the 1921 race massacre. His report was published in @thenation in the summer of 1921." https://t.co/yIrllUDPy3
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#TulsaRaceMassacreAnniversary #TulsaRaceMassacre100

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"Thirty-five blocks were burned and around 10,000 Black people lost their homes. Historians say nearly 300 Black people were killed by the violence. Property damage was between 50 million and 100 million dollars in today’s currency." #TulsaMassacre
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Join us at 7:30 p.m. tonight for a Facebook Live discussion about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. We'll be talking to the young directors of "Black Wall Street Burning" and journalist @AnnelieseMaria, whose great-grandmother witnessed the tragic event 100 years ago. #TulsaMassacre

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The history of the Tulsa Race Massacre needs to be remembered. On the 100th anniversary, The History Channel original documentary, Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre, premieres tomorrow at 8/7c. #RememberTulsa

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Tulsa was a space where Black people ran their community with some autonomy and authority. In 1921 it was a nexus of Black wealth, ambition, and pride, teeming with independent, educated people.
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Congratulations to voting rights advocate and former prez of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, @KristenClarkeJD, the first Black woman to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice
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"When we talk about police brutality, it's always snippets, a piece of video there, or here. But, to actually see my friend, my teammate, colleague, brother murdered on national TV, it's painful. It still is," Herbert Mouton
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