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Editor's note: In time for the 90th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot on May 31, 2011, here's the story of a sad

chapter of American history, pulled from The Root's archives.

In 1921, Greenwood, a successful, all-black enclave in Tulsa, was the site of the deadliest race riot in U.S. history. For the inhabitants of "the Black Wall Street," life would never be…

Confederacy 

I’ve lived 55 years in the South, and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades, but for a reason that might surprise you.

I know the South well. We lived wherever the Marine Corps stationed my father: Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas. As a child, my favorite uncle wasn’t in the military, but he did pack a .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun in his trunk. He was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Despite my role…

Lori Lakin Hutcherson Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Good Black News Image provided by Maeve Richardson

Recently, I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a…

As a Muslim woman of Afrikan descent I have had my fair amount of frustrations being raised within a predominately

                                 Sister Ihssan Tahir

May 1, 2015

Arab Muslim community. Like many other Black Muslims, I have to deal with many instances of subtle prejudices to sheer racism from first and second generation Muslims who hail from Asian and Arab backgrounds. This is my response to a recent press release that…

Sheikh Khalil Abdur-Rashid PhD…

1- Beautiful Reception

Published October 17, 2010



After returning from work, school, travel, or whatever has separated you, begin with a good greeting.



* Meet him with a cheerful face.

* Beautify and perfume yourself.

* Start with good news and delay any bad news until he has rested.

* Receive him with loving and yearning sentences.

* Make hard efforts for excellence of the food & having it ready on time.



2- Beautify…

Sheikh WaliAkbar Muhammad 

Ginella Massa, 29 of Canada...…

1. Rosa Alicia Clemente:  I Am Black...

http://rosaclemente.net/who

1. Yes! Mi familia! This is us! This is me! I really dislike when someone calls me Spanish or the like. ... SubhanaAllah this is me!…

Sheikh Wali Akbar Muhammad

Waliakbar 

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes — Ella Baker

Waliakbar Muhammad (Emerson Wayne Brandon) was born in Washington, DC, the grandson of former slaves and the ninth of ten siblings.  He grew up in an artistic and enterprising family, attended segregated schools until the fall of 1954.  It was right after the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court he became one…

Caught in the Crucible of Turtle Island…