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Topic: Black America

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
LA Mayor Karen Bass and other Black mayors push back against President Donald Trump's claims that their cities are now "lawless." These cities are actually seeing major decreases in violent crime this year. (MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News / Getty Images)

Black Mayors vs Trump’s “lawless” claims

CK Smith
Kellyanne Conway (AP/John Minchillo)

Conway stumbles

Taylor Link
(Salon / Ilana Lidagoster)

Black immigrants: A triple consciousness

Atima Omara
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Aaron McGruder; Will Packer (AP/Henny Ray Abrams/Donald Traill)

Another black alt-history show

Taylor Link
(AP)

black kid on the bus

Jeremy McKeen - The Good Men Project
Barack Obama (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Asha Parker

Paul Kiel, Annie Waldman, ProPublica - ProPublica
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(Reuters/Rick Wilking)

Burden of black forgiveness

Chauncey DeVega - Alternet
(AP)

The "Trump Surge" is eternal

Brittney Cooper
(Reuters)

I could have been Sandra Bland

Brittney Cooper
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Black America's Cosby crisis

Brittney Cooper
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(AP/Lexington County (S.C.) Detention Center)

Kali Holloway - Alternet
(MSNBC)

America's war on Black girls

Brittney Cooper
King Walker of Baltimore stands in front of a gathering of police officers and their supporters at a "Blue Lives Matter" rally, Baltimore, Maryland, May 30, 2015. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Black America is so very tired

Chauncey DeVega

Snapshots of a racist teacher

Brittney Cooper
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Kali Holloway - Alternet
Stephen A. Smith (AP)

Jenny Kutner
Bill Cosby (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Jenny Kutner
Oscar Patterson (C-SPAN)

Ian Blair
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"Listen when I talk to you!”

Brittney Cooper
Parents of Michael Brown, Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Janice Fuller-Roberts

Black America's everyday truth

Ian Blair
(AP/Jeff Roberson)

Kirsten West Savali - DAME
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