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Black america today that would be great but it wouldn't. there is still a conversation to be had about black america in general and i think that we need to realize that words are not always applied to what they could apply to. affirmative action was reparations. people did not use that word. that is precisely what it was. the community reinvestment act that forced banks to invest in inner cities. nobody makes a movie about that. that was reparation. sometimes it worked. sometimes it didn't. w wellfare was reformed. it was reparations. >> also, with that john, when you are talking about it ther...

At a recent conference of right-wingers from the Young Americas Foundation, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum created a stir. He stated, “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans,...

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the deportation of the southeast’s Native Americans to present-day Oklahoma. The brutal process, as University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt shows in his gripping and heartbreaking book “Unworthy Republic” (Norton), transformed the South. White settlers planted cotton on Indigenous lands, which lay in the fertile Black Belt. These planters grew wealthy. And three decades later, they would help launch a civil war to defend the institution of slavery that created those riches. Saunt spoke to The...

TAHLEQUAH – On Feb. 21, 1828, the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published in New Echota, Georgia. It was the first Native American newspaper in the country and was printed in both English and Cherokee utilizing Sequoyah’s syllabary.  Editor Elias Boudinot gave the paper the name Cherokee Phoenix after the phoenix bird of Egyptian mythology that consumes itself in fire every 500 years and is reborn from the ashes. Boudinot had learned about the phoenix during his education in Cornwall, Connecticut. Over time, the name has proven to be fitting as the Cherokee ...

Replies(3) Alameda officially renamed the former Jackson Park -- named for slave-owning and Native American-oppressing U.S. President Andrew Jackson -- Chochenyo Park, for the language spoken by the island's original inhabitants, the Ohlone tribe. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) ALAMEDA, CA — Alameda officially renamed the former Jackson Park -- named for slave-owning and Native American-oppressing U.S. President Andrew Jackson -- Chochenyo Park, for the language spoken by the island's original inhabitants, the Ohlone tribe. The City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday, with Councilman Tony Daysog disse...