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Los Angeles wildfires: At least 10 dead and 100,000 told to flee as alert system fixes underway

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Los Angeles wildfires: At least 10 dead and 100,000 told to flee as alert system fixes underway

It comes from the CNN website. Firefighters made progress on several fires raging in Los Angeles overnight — but they are now bracing for more winds Friday afternoon. About 153,000 people are still under evacuation orders, according to officials. It has been a busy start to the year for fire crews. Cal Fire said it […]

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Inspiration Found in Adversity

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Inspiration Found in Adversity

Maria Corina Machado is an emerging figure in the turbulent political climate of Venezuela. She is currently making headlines as she has been challenging Maduro's presidency as the founder of an election-monitoring group for over two decades. While she has won the primaries, Maduro had barred her from running for presidency. Although this occurred, Maduro […]

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What is ‘positive masculinity’?

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What is ‘positive masculinity’?

The term positive masculinity comes from the school of ‘positive psychology’, which focuses on improving people by utilizing their strengths. Positive masculinity then is about recognizing the strengths of masculinity, such as how physical strength and risk-taking are crucial in many aspects of life, such as the emergency services where physical strength and courage are […]

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Toxic Masculinity and the Shifting Landscape of What It Means to Be a Man

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Toxic Masculinity and the Shifting Landscape of What It Means to Be a Man

In the ever-changing social consciousness, the discussion of toxic masculinity continues to be pervasive, essential, and evolving. Over the last several years, the attributes of negative masculine expectations have been fought against in the name of gender equality, social harmony, and mental health.

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Masculinity In Advertising : The “Ideal Man”

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Masculinity In Advertising : The “Ideal Man”

This article shows how advertising in the United States has long played a pivotal role in shaping and reinforcing societal perceptions of masculinity. Historically, advertisements such as these have depicted men as dominant, assertive, and physically robust, aligning with traditional masculine ideals. This portrayal not only reflects but also perpetuates cultural norms. And (in food […]

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Have You Volunteered

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Have You Volunteered

The Cold War was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union under the government ideology of capitalism and communism. During the war, both nations used propaganda to create fearmongers toward their people. The propaganda of the Soviet Union was the most fearmonger due to its message on their belief of bringing down […]

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ALL BLACKLIVES MATTER.

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ALL BLACKLIVES MATTER.

Article: https://dreamplay.tv/craftwell/murals-for-justice Tittle: MURALS FOR JUSTICE All Black Lives Matter.

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A thread

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A thread

Screenshot from thread.

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My Body, My Choice: A Reminder of Respect and Autonomy

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My Body, My Choice: A Reminder of Respect and Autonomy

As a woman, I am reminded daily that my body is viewed by some as a battleground for control, legislation, and judgment. But let me make one thing abundantly clear: my body is no one’s choice but mine. No man, no institution, and no government have the right to dictate what I can and cannot […]

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Israeli attacks rock Gaza and Lebanon amid new ceasefire push

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Israeli attacks rock Gaza and Lebanon amid new ceasefire push

At least 37 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. UN humanitarian official says sending aid to Gaza is more difficult with the enclave’s north almost totally cut off. Nine Israeli soldiers were injured in Gaza and southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours, according to the latest […]

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Israel bombs Hezbollah targets as dozens of Gaza civilians killed

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Israel bombs Hezbollah targets as dozens of Gaza civilians killed

Nearly a dozen killed in Israeli assault on southern Lebanon city Israeli attacks on the ancient city of Tyre killed at least 11 people, Lebanon’s Health Ministry says. Forty-eight others were also injured, the ministry added. Before Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire across the border last year, at least 50,000 people lived in Tyre, […]

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Scream

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Scream

I came across this post on my Instagram feed, and it articulated so much of how I’ve been feeling. The author writes: “I woke up angry, sad, confused, and in shock. I immediately thought of how my 18 year old daughter, who was so excited to vote, called me last night to be sad with […]

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ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha on the state of Democracy

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ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha on the state of Democracy

Amol Sinha, The Executive Director of the ACLU-NJ, reflects on Trump winning the 2024 Presidential Election, and the important role states can play in times like these. Trump recently won the 2024 Presidential Election, leaving half of the nation stunned. But most Democrats have acknowledged we have a lot to learn. In this video, The […]

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Redefining Masculinity, Transforming Gender Rolls at the community level

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Redefining Masculinity, Transforming Gender Rolls at the community level

Maine Boys to Men (MBTM), a program that has long worked with high school boys, is developing a curriculum for middle school boys that teaches them to see and sidestep the rigid gender roles they’re already growing into. That’s only part of its shift from being strictly a training program for high school students to […]

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Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says

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Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says

Instead of addressing climate change concerns, countries around the globe continue to contribute to the ever-growing concern of global warming and it's irreversible effects.

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James Dickson Carr (1892) First African American student to graduate from Rutgers

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James Dickson Carr (1892) First African American student to graduate from Rutgers

Image is from the exhibition Rutgers African American Alumni Gallery: The Forerunner Generation by Beatrice J. Adams and Jesse Bayker. From the Exhibit: James Dickson Carr was the first African American student to graduate from Rutgers. He was born on September 28th, 1868, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Thomas Carr, a Presbyterian minister, and Mary Louise […]

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Middle East Crisis: Top U.N. Court Orders Israel to Ensure Aid to Gaza

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Middle East Crisis: Top U.N. Court Orders Israel to Ensure Aid to Gaza

An article today in the New York Times talking about steps that the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday, including ordering Israel to take concrete steps to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza. Famine is setting in.

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Israel-Hamas War

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Israel-Hamas War

This is one of the many articles coming out every day about the war in the Middle East. I’m finding that one’s emotions are all over the place trying to figure who is most at fault. Looking to many different new sources. This is just one.

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What does it mean to have Latinx representation in a leadership position like yours?

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What does it mean to have Latinx representation in a leadership position like yours?

Gary Santos Mendoza said: For me, it means being a visual representation of success for my Ecuadorian and Puerto Rican family and chosen family. My family's sacrifice to develop me through tradition, love, and discipline turned me into the person I am. In addition, the feeling of empowerment to be comfortable in my skin to […]

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Abortion-rights protest outside City Hall in Newark

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Abortion-rights protest outside City Hall in Newark

Article about protest in Newark, NJ right after the overturn of ROE. My community is up in arms as we should be!

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Roe overturned; how newspaper homepages across the country covered historic day

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Roe overturned; how newspaper homepages across the country covered historic day

Article by the Times Photography Staff about the different ways newspapers across the country represented the overturn of ROE. — Excerpt: Newspaper websites across the country covered the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of abortion rights with banner headlines and large photos. Some featured multiple stories, others fewer. Some sites downplayed, while others blew out the […]

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Ejaculate Responsibly book

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Ejaculate Responsibly book

This image is an Instagram post by Bonnie Siegler whose firm designed the book – caption below. After the US Supreme Court overturned ROE and took away women’s rights, this book and its perspective seem very important. — “This incredible new book clearly and simply explains why and how men are responsible for every unwanted […]

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Festival of Colors

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Festival of Colors

Photo from National Geographic about the Hindu celebration of spring, Holi. I am adding this image because Rutgers Newark Encourages students to embrace their religious celebrations. Holi: The Festival of Colors was celebrated on campus, It offered opportunity to teach others about Hindu culture and religion, which created a strong sense of community and belonging.

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Image of Murals for Justice: Newark, “Abolish White Supremacy”

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On Saturday, June 27th 2021, the words “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” were painted in bright yellow 25ft high letters on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between the Essex County Historic Courthouse and Veterans’ Courthouse. On Halsey Street, east of the Rutgers campus, the words “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER” takes up another city block. These powerful […]

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1960/2022

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1960/2022

In 1960 for federal Marshall’s escorted Ruby Bridges to a segregated school in Louisiana. This week (03/21/22) Ketanji Brown Jackson was escorted to Supreme Court Confirmation hearings as the first Black woman nominated to America’s highest court.

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Dark Skin Representation in The Media

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Dark Skin Representation in The Media

Dialogue workshop. “It is important to have individuals who represent your own culture, who inspire you, who you can identify with”.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Ketanji Brown Jackson

Her hearing shows how the intersectionality of a person’s identity can influence how they are treated.

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Exposure Breeds Compassion

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Exposure Breeds Compassion

Diversity can be impaired by split-second decisions triggered by biases. We all are capable of impeding diversity because of our narrow experiences and takes on the world. Family, culture and environment all play a part in how we make sense of everything. When it comes to the inability to practice empathy, lack of exposure to […]

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Is Up to You to Stop That

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Is Up to You to Stop That

Members of the Rutgers community have come together to call for change as protests against police violence and racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody continue nationwide.

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The Dark Skin is El Que Cocina, Never The Protagonist

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The Dark Skin is El Que Cocina, Never The Protagonist

Dialogue workshop. Discussion about the Latino representation in the media. It is common in many Latino cultures to create stigmas on their own race. The lighter you are, the higher your status, your beauty. This is a common representation in the media, where in telenovelas or soap operas the most important characters are always played […]

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Lack of Diversity in Healthcare for Women

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Lack of Diversity in Healthcare for Women

During A Dialogue in a Time of Fracture Workshop, female students discussed that Rutgers Newark was not providing enough outlets for women when it comes to physical and mental health. There is a major lack in diversity when in comes to female physicians, and women are feeling left behind and ostracized. They feel Rutgers needs […]

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One Property at a Time: A City Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying.

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One Property at a Time: A City Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying.

Rutgers University- Newark promotes the integration of its students into the community after their educational careers. The goal is to revitalize the city by breeding opportunity within its limits, but at what point will revitalization disadvantage lower income, or Newark natives.

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How Social Classes in the Past Influence Stigmas Today

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How Social Classes in the Past Influence Stigmas Today

Dialogue workshop. Discussion about how Spain’s social classes from the past influences today’s most Latino stigmas and influences own racial discrimation and the discrimination of the blackness.

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The Degrees of Transculturation

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The Degrees of Transculturation

Discussion at RU-N Dialogue at Express Newark. Participants spoke about the difficulties of assimilating into the norms and customs of the dominant society as an immigrant while maintaining indigenous cultures.

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Creative Practice, Activism & Dialogue Panel

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Creative Practice, Activism & Dialogue Panel

Photo of Creative Practice, Activism & Dialogue Panel: pictured are Chantal Fischzang, Colleen Gutwein, Akil Kumarasamy, Stefon Harris, Jennifer Bernstein.

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Jennifer Bernstein

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Jennifer Bernstein

Photo of Professor Jennifer Bernstein introducing the last panel of the symposium

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Adult Learners in Rutgers Newark Community

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Adult Learners in Rutgers Newark Community

Access to opportunities are not afforded to students of older demographics comparatively to that of normal aged students. Access to faculty and resources during normal business hours prove it difficult for adult learners who have regular 9-5 jobs. Also, opportunities such as internships are seen as not as accessible for adult leaners due to the […]

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Rutgers Newark Uses Its Diversity As A Prop

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Rutgers Newark Uses Its Diversity As A Prop

This school loves to talk about diversity as a selling point and use our diverse backgrounds/cultures as props. When it comes to the representation and supporting their students they don’t care. Such as not having school events around diversity or representation.

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Will You Be My Monument

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Will You Be My Monument

Will You Be My Monument is a collaboration between writer Salamishah Tillet of New Arts Justice at Rutgers University – Newark, designer Chantal Fischzang, and photographer Scheherazade Tillet. This public art installation was inspired by the City of Newark’s removal of the Columbus statue in Washington Park on June 25, 2020. Featuring a photograph by […]

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HR40 & Reparations

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HR40 & Reparations

Image on the cover of HR40 & Reparations Tool Kit by the ACLU. Excerpt from the Tool Kit: HR 40: WHAT IS IT, AND HOW DO WE PASS IT? H.R. 40 is a Congressional bill that seeks to explore reparations for slavery and address how slavery and its legacy have deeply harmed generations of Black […]

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Bill of sale for Mark for $20 until he turns 25

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Bill of sale for Mark for $20 until he turns 25

Image from the Digital Archive: Scarlet + Black Citation: Neilson, James, “Bill of sale for Mark for $20 until he turns 25,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed March 5, 2022, From the Digital Archive: James Neilson (1784-1862) sells a black man named Mark to Abraham Veghte for a term of five years […]

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Image of Murals for Justice: Newark, “All Black Lives Matter”

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Image of Murals for Justice: Newark, “All Black Lives Matter”

On Saturday, June 27th 2021, the words “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” were painted in bright yellow 25ft high letters on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between the Essex County Historic Courthouse and Veterans’ Courthouse. On Halsey Street, east of the Rutgers campus, the words “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER” takes up another city block. These powerful […]

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Newark Paramount Theater, Newark, NJ

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Newark Paramount Theater, Newark, NJ

Theater in Newark that opened in 1886 under the name of “H.C. Miner’s Newark Theatre.” After renovations in the 1930’s the theatre was named Paramount. It closed in 1986 as a result of skyrocketing insurance rates.

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Layqa Nuna Yawar’s Radical Impermanence mural in Newark, NJ.

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Layqa Nuna Yawar’s Radical Impermanence mural in Newark, NJ.

Radical Impermanence (2018) by Layqa Nuna Yawar, for a citywide mural project, honors famous artistic Newarkers like Sarah Vaughan, Whitney Houston and Philip Roth (who called “radical impermanence” an enduring American tradition.) Photo Credit: Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times.

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Racism is the original pandemic.

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Racism is the original pandemic.

Image accompanying the article Reparations need to be part of the conversation about racial justice by Nichole Nelson published in The Washington Post.

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Abortion Is Normal

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Abortion Is Normal

Abortion Is Normal is an exhibition organized by a collective of cultural practitioners as an urgent call-to-action exhibition to raise both awareness and funding in support of accessible, safe, and legal abortion. This show comes at a time when legal abortion is under acute attack throughout the United States. Simultaneously, the 1973 landmark ruling, Roe […]

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NDN Collective on Another Year of Impact and Building Indigenous Power

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NDN Collective on Another Year of Impact and Building Indigenous Power

In the four years since NDN Collective officially launched as a movement-building organization, we have been honored to build Indigenous power alongside our People and our communities. Since our inception as an organization, we have taken an ecosystem approach to build Indigenous power with different entities within the collective working in tandem to support and […]

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Amplifying Black Artists; Black Voices.

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Amplifying Black Artists; Black Voices.

Brooklyn-based artist, MILO MATTHIEU presents an organic introspection of the self, understood broadly in the academic field and brought straight to the canvas. Matthieu’s complex works check in with deep philosophical questions of identity and self-perception. Through a diverse palette of earth tones and primary colors, collage, and other forms of mixed media, Matthieu is […]

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Juneteenth Reparations Rally

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Juneteenth Reparations Rally

Image published in the article Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Centuryby Ashley Dennis, published in Black Perspectives, published by AAIHS.

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Dorothea Lange image I Am An American

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Dorothea Lange image I Am An American

This Dorothea Lange image was included in the article “George Takei got reparations. He says they strengthen the integrity of America” by Neda Ulaby on opb.org

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Future Harriet Tubman Monument

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Future Harriet Tubman Monument

Image included in an article in Newark Arts about the Harriet Tubman Monument Project.

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The United States Declaration of Independence

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The United States Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. Unlike the other founding documents, the Declaration of Independence is not legally binding, but it is powerful. Abraham Lincoln called it “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to tyranny and oppression.” It continues to inspire people around the […]

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Americans are divided on abortion. The Supreme Court may not wait for minds to change

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Americans are divided on abortion. The Supreme Court may not wait for minds to change

This image accompanies the NPR article “Americans are divided on abortion. The Supreme Court may not wait for minds to change” by Julie Rovner. Image caption: “Demonstrators gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most […]

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Bill of Sale for Teunis

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Bill of Sale for Teunis

Joseph T. Baldwin sold a 26 year old man to James Neilson for $125. The date was 1814-04-20, in Newark, NJ. Here is the full text: Know all men by these Presents that I Joseph T. Baldwin of the Township of Newark in the County of Essex, For under consideration of the sum of One […]

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Black People’s Unity Movement (BPUM), “BPUM Liberator Returns Home / Fight Racism flyer,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive

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Black People’s Unity Movement (BPUM), “BPUM Liberator Returns Home / Fight Racism flyer,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive

Double-sided flyer for a December 22, 1969, event with Charles “Poppy” Sharp, chairman of the Black People’s Unity Movement (BPUM) in Camden, sponsored by the United Black Front. The front of the flyer has an image of Sharp and event details. The back of the page reads “Fight Racism Support the Black Community” and tells […]

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