nationality
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They Don’t Know Who They Are
There’s a rumor taking place among African Americans in America. A rumor that has always been there but that is now being echoed from the mouths of others. We heard it first from Raven-Symoné and then Whoopi Goldberg, and now Stacey Dash. Let us start by saying that The United States has been drunk off… Continue reading
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Week #3: Beyond The Colored Line – Interracial Blog Feature with Allison Wells
It’s kind of hard to believe this today, but as recent as 1967, there was actually state laws that banned interracial marriage. These laws weren’t overturned until the Supreme Court case, Loving vs. Virginia in 1967. In that case, the Supreme Court found that it was unconstitutional for the state of Virginia to ban interracial… Continue reading
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Interracial Blog Feature- Interview Reminder for 10/8/2015
This is a reminder to tune into The PBS Blog every Thursday starting tomorrow 10/8/2015 until the end of this month for my Interracial Blog Feature. In this series, I will be interviewing four individuals who are in Interracial Relationships. Each week, they will be sharing with us their experiences beyond the colored line, the… Continue reading
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Race Doesn’t Exist
French physician Francois Bernier was the first to use the word “race” as a category for scientifically classifying humans in a 1684 essay titled “A New Division of the Earth, According to the Different Species or Races of Men Who Inhabit It”. In addition, Johan Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), a medical professor in Germany, argued that… Continue reading
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Before
Before they ever thwarted us… Beat down tortured us… Slave ship boarded us… Rounded up and horded us… Before they ever sent the natives round to go and capture ya… Before they gave us crack and put them crooked laws on us… Before they water hosed us and sent them dogs on us…. Before the… Continue reading
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