Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at Rachel Maddow: Donald Trump Race Crisis A Test For Congress To Take Real Action

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Congress can do more than the bare minimum of tweeting condemnation of racism to address the actual problem with legislation.
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Obama says he stands on shoulders of black World War II pilotsSEATTLE - Barack Obama has said he's standing on the shoulders of George Hickman and his trailblazing colleagues ( Read more... )

The inauguration of a black president unites, at long last, my separate identities.One week after the election, I gave a talk at a Boston public library. Euphoria still ran high; people were still tearing up at the mere mention of the words "President-elect Obama." In the discussion afterward, there was much lively debate about media coverage of ( Read more... )

Historians hope significance comes to light as Obama takes officeWASHINGTON - When Barack Obama takes the oath of office at the US Capitol, the first African-American to become president will be standing amid stonework laid by slaves more than two centuries ago. He will appear before a crowd massed on the Mall, where slaves were once held in pens, ( Read more... )

Black WWII pilots were banned from victory parades after returning to U.S.WASHINGTON - The Tuskegee Airmen made history during World War II as the first black military pilots in the United States, only to return home to discrimination and exclusion from victory parades. Survivors of the elite unit have been invited to Barack Obama's inauguration as ( Read more... )

If this isn't black history I don't know what is:


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The prospect that in a matter of hours an African American could be elected president of the United States has triggered a complex set of emotions for many black people ( Read more... )

I think this constitutes as Black History:


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