Category: race
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The Evolved Men of the Week: The Combat Hippies
Welcome to the “Veterans Day” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Men of the Week’ profile. Today we will highlight historical and contemporary figures who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Combat Hippies.…
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The Evolved Men of the Week: The Golden Thirteen
Welcome to the “Veterans Day” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Men of the Week’ profile. Today, we will highlight historical and contemporary figures who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, both famous and non-famous. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Golden…
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Leave My Curl Alone
Black Hair Matters Afros, braids, Bantu knots, cornrows, locks, and twists are a few of the many ways black people have worn their hair for millennia. But in the United States and across the globe, black people’s hair has always been a point of contention. It’s been policed since the days of slavery. Yet, there…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Hanoi orders probe as majority of Essex truck death victims likely from Vietnam Nghe An is one of Vietnam’s poorest provinces, and home to many victims of human trafficking, who end up in Europe, according to a March report by the Pacific Links Foundation, a US-based anti-trafficking organization. #SoutheastAsia #Vietnam #London #HumanTrafficking Weekend At Bernie’s: Sanders Tell…
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School’s Out
The Tale of Two Cities This week, Chicago’s Public School doors are closed…just like they once were several years ago when Rahm Emmanuel was the Chicago Mayor. At the end of 2019, before the dawn of a new decade, the Chicago Teachers Union and their comrades at Service Employees (SEIU) Local 73 have retaken to…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Mayor Michael Tubbs
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Stanford University graduate and Stockton Mayor, Michael…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Ben Graham
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the business owner, founder of Motivation Forward…
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Good Ol’ Uncle Joe
I got a Black Friend The upcoming 2020 presidential election has been off to a crazy start already. The current orange asshole in the white house might just be impeached. Why? Because he might have asked a foreign government to investigate the ‘so-called’ Democratic presidential frontrunner, former Vice-President Joe Biden. Speaking of the former Vice…
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The Week in the Stories Around the Globe
Justin Trudeau Wore Brownface at 2001 ‘Arabian Nights’ Party While He Taught at a Private School The United States has a long and painful history of white performers darkening their faces to demean and dehumanize African-Americans—a practice made popular by minstrel shows in the 19th century. Blackface continued into the 20th century in Broadway shows and Hollywood…
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A Day at the Museum
My Journey to the National Museum of African American History The Souls of Black Folks I was skeptical when I heard about the opening of the National Museum of African American History. Would we get another watered-down version of black history? This museum was over a hundred years in the making and well worth it.…
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