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To Inspire You
If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, the problem of the color line, then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification
Naomi Murakawa
Today In History
In 1830
- First Negro Convention of Free Men agree to start their boycott on slave-produced goods
In 1974
- Officer Gail Cobb of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., is shot and killed while attempting to apprehend a robbery suspect. Officer Cobb is the first of 73 African-American female officers to be killed in the line of duty.