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And in Canada we have not remembered that we have this day (Lincoln Alexander Day) – the only Black person in the country that has an official day named after them – or in their honour.”
Source: https://www.mylloydminsternow.com/57105/featured/leading-voice-reflects-on-black-history-month/
Any Black person in America has felt the sting of having a racial slur thrown at them at least once in their life.
Source: https://collider.com/lhhatl-erica-mena-racist-firing/
"As a Black person, you just expect it and it's not really a shock anymore," Bailey said in response.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/the-little-mermaid-ghost-crab-sebastian-would-drown/
“As a Muslim and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member and they don’t show the same respect that I show them.”
Each practice corresponds to a common experience that threatens to snatch breath away from a Black person, like being mistaken for another Black colleague, being followed while shopping, and feeling the pressure of being the only Black person in the room.
Source: https://mashable.com/article/black-self-care-books-black-people-breathe
Each practice corresponds to a common experience that threatens to snatch breath away from a Black person, like being mistaken for another Black colleague, being followed while shopping, and feeling the pressure of being the only Black person in the room.
Source: https://mashable.com/article/black-self-care-books-black-people-breathe
From the earliest western portrait of a Black person, painted around 1525, to the work made by Black artists from Africa to the Americas, this exhibition shows how Atlantic enslavement influenced Europe too, even the landlocked city of Cambridge itself.
Her influence extended beyond music, as she became the first Black person and the first woman to grace the cover of magazine.
Source: https://www.inquisitr.com/tina-turners-72-1-million-holiday-home-to-become-museum-says-widower
I find it amazing that PragerU does not have one Black person in leadership but have plenty of Blacks that they pay to entertain white folks with all kinds of buffoonery, but I digress.
Source: https://thyblackman.com/2023/04/12/national-and-tennessee-republicans-are-both-off-to-the-racists/
Lenya Wilks says she felt like the “only Black person in Surrey” when she first moved to the city east of Vancouver last year.
Max Stanley Bazin, president of the Black Coalition of Quebec, describes the puppet's appearance as "very, very, very ugly" and said he worries that seeing a Black person presented in such a way could cause emotional damage to young audiences.
“Thankfully my daughter hasn’t experienced that, but it can also cause strokes, and if you give blood as a Black person giving blood, the chances of that blood helping another Black body are a lot more likely than a white person giving blood.”
The book addressed the brutality of slavery and featured the character of “Uncle Tom”—a slave who, perhaps unfairly, came to symbolize the accommodating Black person who showed complete deference to Whites.
The first, enacted in 1844, decreed that any Black person who attempted to settle in Oregon would be publicly lashed 39 times every six months.
Source: https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.6/history-the-many-legacies-of-letitia-carson
The only other Black person to serve as Joint Chiefs chairman was Army Gen. Colin Powell.
Turner is Houston’s 62nd mayor and the second Black person in that office.
“We shouldn’t have Black individuals being asked questions of what it means to be Black when there’s not Black person sitting in that room,” she said.
“When any Black person dies, it feels personal to me.