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I'm surprised, considering all the SWS in charge at the DOJ

Government Reopens Probe of Emmett Till Slaying After Receiving ‘New Information’

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago.

The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after receiving “new information.” The case was closed in 2007 with authorities saying the suspects were dead; a state grand jury didn’t file any new charges.

Deborah Watts, a cousin of Till, said she was unaware the case had been reopened until contacted by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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tay1 said:
AME Churches, Black-Owned Banks Team Up to Launch New Partnership for Longterm Black Wealth


The African Methodist Episcopal church, the first independent Black denomination in the U.S., has teamed up with 19 Black-owned banks across the nation to form a partnership aimed at bettering financial vitality among Black Americans.

Bishop Reginald T. Jackson announced the new partnership at the 2018 Council of Bishops and General Board Meeting in Atlanta on June 26, pegging the initiative as an opportunity to “increase Black wealth,” business development and homeownership.

“This initiative will strengthen Black banks across the U.S. and increase their capacity to lend to small businesses, to secure mortgages, to provide personal lines of credit, and to offer other forms of credit to AME churches and our members,” said Jackson, president of the Council of AME Bishops. “This, of course, includes enabling members and their families to become homeowners.”

Jackson explained the partnership was inspired by an initiative formed in Washington, D.C. in 2015, called Black Wealth 2020, which he said “… is providing an economic blueprint for Black America.”

Through the initiative, faith leaders and bank presidents hope to increase deposits and loans with Black-owned banks; up the number of Black businesses from 2.6 million to 4 million; and grow Black homeownership to more than 50 percent nationwide, according to a press release.

Speaking to The Atlanta Voice, General Board Chair Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie said he believes the church-bank collaboration is especially important for African-American youth.

“We want to be able to teach fiscal responsibility before [students] get to high school,” she said. “[It’s important] to learn the value of saving, the value of investing.”


Michael Banks, former head of the National Bankers’ Association, said he sees the partnership as imperative in regards to growing Black homeownership.

“We are educating ourselves and not only teaching our people how to get a home but also how to stay there,” Banks told the newspaper. “We worry about gentrification, but we have more power than we realize. (It’s important) to (buy) a home, and hold on to a home, and then encourage all young people to do the same.”

With over 6,000 AME churches across the U.S., faith leaders say the partnership is a real opportunity to boost wealth among Black Americans if everyone takes part.

“We believe that if most of these churches participate, more than $6 million dollars in new business can be generated,” Jackson wrote. “This could also generate in three years more than $1 billion dollars in construction loans.

“The impetus for this partnership is not only what it does for Black banks, but also what it can do for Black Americans and churches.”

http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/07...ch-new-partnership-for-longterm-black-wealth/
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Where's puffy and Jay with all their opinions on supporting blacks? Oh they were just talking about supporting them my bad.
 
theregothatman said:

Must be nice to be able to dip in and out of your blackness as needed.
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The only problem I have with this is that they are reaching out for sympathy/understanding for a plight caused by the Black community and they are low key comparing it to the struggles of Black people.

I can acknowledge that they had a rough time growing up but that is not comparable by any means to growing up black in America. Bottom line is that there is a high life or death/incarceration risk with being black in America that neither will ever experience. They both are flexing their white and white adjacent privileged by posting a video like this with that sort of tone. Their new nicknames should be Rachel and Rachel.
 
Actually watched that entire video because a Black family adopting an Asian child is rare.

That girl's whole channel is dedicated to the "plight" of mixed race people, particularly mixed with Black. Woe is me.
 
theregothatman said:

Must be nice to be able to dip in and out of your blackness as needed.
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Watched this video, then ended up watching more of her videos (the CBUDD chick). Basically a white black girl. Mostly white-mixed but grew up around her black side of the family and looks like she just kicks it with black people in general. Her white side was like nah, we good, but nice meeting you. Pretty interesting. Makes you think if that random white dude/girl you see out on the streets every day is really "culturally" white or just looks that way.
 
theregothatman said:
If you don't think she switches up when it benefits her then you crazy
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If she grew up in a black family all of her life, knows and respects her adopted family's culture and history, and rides for black people then I think she's official. She ain't gettin around Korean people to dip in-out of anything because they can expose her easily if she can barely hold a conversation in her native language.
 
illwill8710 said:
The only problem I have with this is that they are reaching out for sympathy/understanding for a plight caused by the Black community and they are low key comparing it to the struggles of Black people.

I can acknowledge that they had a rough time growing up but that is not comparable by any means to growing up black in America. Bottom line is that there is a high life or death/incarceration risk with being black in America that neither will ever experience. They both are flexing their white and white adjacent privileged by posting a video like this with that sort of tone. Their new nicknames should be Rachel and Rachel.
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Bottom line is we need "stealth riders" in the community. If we got mixed people or adopted people who ride for the community and at the same time can sneak themselves around the white supremacists and bring back intel then I'm all for it. Welcome home.
 
MalcolmNewton said:
Bottom line is we need "stealth riders" in the community. If we got mixed people or adopted people who ride for the community and at the same time can sneak themselves around the white supremacists and bring back intel then I'm all for it. Welcome home.
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Gabrielle Union on Speaking to Her Stepsons About Appreciating Dark Skin Women After Seeing They Only Liked Light Skin Women on IG

Gabrielle Union on Speaking to Her Stepsons About Appreciating Dark Skin Women After Seeing They Only Liked Light Skin Women on IG

Gabrielle Union believes that the annual Essence Fest in New Orleans is a “a special time to rally support, connect, and to amplify your message”, Refinery29 reports – her message being that it’s time to start actively breaking down barriers and crossing the lines of beauty standards in America. Over the years she’s openly expressed her struggles in her career that she faced based on the shade of her skin. Now with an abundance of self-love and self-appreciation, Union wants to pass this on to the children she is helping to raise: Dwayne Wade’s 2 sons and his nephew who now also lives with them.

In this Essence Fest interview, she recalls a recent conversation she had with the 3 boys about the girls that they liked at their schools. Intrigued, Union asked them to pull up the Instagram accounts of the girls they were talking about:

Literally, probably about 10 girls I looked at had the same light skin, curly hair, tiny waist, butt, boobs — it was the same girl over and over again. So I asked them to show me the most beautiful chocolate sister they’ve seen. They say there are none. I was like, ‘Why do they get exed out so fast? What is happening in your brain that is causing you to look at these women through a prism that is distorting their actual selves?’

The decorated actress took it upon herself to then open their horizons and expand their standards, showing them Instagram vixen Ryan Destiny, a beautiful brown skinned model. The boys immediately agreed that she was beautiful, but Union came to a more complex conclusion:

They don’t see the beauty unless it comes from an actress or a supermodel or a video vixen. They have to have somebody else tell them that a chocolate woman is attractive for them to believe it.

She feels that it is important to have this conversation with not just your children, but also in the work place and the beauty industry.
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Black Immigration is Remaking U.S. Black Population, Report Says

Shop owner Ayan Diriye, left, helped a customer at Ayan’s Shop, which sells Somali goods and houses a money-transfer office called Juba Express, in February in Falls Church, Va. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...d49c58-de29-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html

Rapidly growing numbers of black immigrants have reshaped the overall black population in the United States in recent decades, particularly in Washington and other cities with large U.S.-born African American communities, a new report says.

A record 3.8 million foreign-born blacks now live in the United States, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday. The influx means that the share of foreign-born blacks, largely from Africa and the Caribbean, has grown from 3.1 percent of the black population in 1980 to 8.7 percent in 2013. By 2060, 16.5 percent of the U.S. black population will be foreign-born, the report says.

The report highlights the degree to which America’s black population is less homogenous than in previous generations, experts said.

“I think when you’re talking about the black population, it’s increasingly important to be able to pull apart the distinctions between U.S.-born blacks of several generations compared to the new immigrants,” said William H. Frey, a demographer and senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.

“Just because they’re new immigrants,” Frey added, “they have different needs and patterns, probably in terms of language in many cases, in terms of assimilation. And so they probably shouldn’t be confused with native-born blacks in lots of ways, who have their own needs to be addressed.”

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Alamayahu Haile waves a flag toward the crowd to close the Ethiopian New Year Celebration at the Washington Monument in 2012. (Jahi Chikwendiu/Washington Post)

Frey, in his 2014 book Diversity Explosion,” estimated that black immigrants made up about 10 percent of all blacks and differed from U.S.-born blacks in important socioeconomic respects. That was also reflected in the Pew report, which said black immigrants tend to be older, more likely to have a higher education and a higher income, and less likely to live in poverty.

The impact of black immigration has been particularly strong in cities that already had some of the nation’s largest black populations. For instance, in the District, 15 percent of the black population was born outside the United States. In Miami, 34 percent of the black community was born elsewhere. In New York’s metro area, that figure is 28 percent. Nearly half of the influx has occurred since 2000, the report says.

Most of the nation’s 40 million U.S.-born blacks trace their heritage to African ancestors who were brought here as slaves. The report also notes that blacks accounted for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population at the end of the 18th century.

The most recent wave of black immigration began in the 1960s after U.S. immigration laws were changed. In recent years, the pace has increased. The most recent Census Bureau estimates show that immigration accounted for 25 percent of the growth in the U.S. black population between 2010 and July 2013, Frey said.

Half of the black immigrants arrived from the Caribbean, the Pew report says. The largest source is Jamaica, with 682,000, followed by Haiti, with 586,000. Jamaican immigrants make up 18 percent of the black population in the United States; those from Haiti represent about 15 percent of the U.S. black population.

But a rapidly growing proportion of foreign-born blacks who arrived in the United States in recent years came from Africa, led almost entirely by immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the report says. Nigeria and Ethiopia rank first and second, respectively, in the number of African immigrants in the United States. Many sub-Saharan immigrants — 28 percent — were refugees or others seeking asylum.

About 8 percent of black immigrants came from South or Central America, the report says.

In terms of socioeconomic profiles, foreign-born blacks have a median age of 42, compared with 29 for U.S.-born blacks. Twenty-six percent have a college education, compared with 19 percent of native-born blacks, and black immigrants are less likely to live in poverty (20 percent vs. 28 percent) and have higher incomes. About 48 percent of black immigrants who are 18 or older are also married, compared with 28 percent of blacks born here, a finding that is likely related to the higher median age among immigrants.

Pew’s report, based on census data, focuses on the rising number of foreign-born blacks, those who were born outside the United States, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories. Their race was defined as “black” or “mixed race black” on Census Bureau surveys.
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tay1 said:
AME Churches, Black-Owned Banks Team Up to Launch New Partnership for Longterm Black Wealth


The African Methodist Episcopal church, the first independent Black denomination in the U.S., has teamed up with 19 Black-owned banks across the nation to form a partnership aimed at bettering financial vitality among Black Americans.

Bishop Reginald T. Jackson announced the new partnership at the 2018 Council of Bishops and General Board Meeting in Atlanta on June 26, pegging the initiative as an opportunity to “increase Black wealth,” business development and homeownership.

“This initiative will strengthen Black banks across the U.S. and increase their capacity to lend to small businesses, to secure mortgages, to provide personal lines of credit, and to offer other forms of credit to AME churches and our members,” said Jackson, president of the Council of AME Bishops. “This, of course, includes enabling members and their families to become homeowners.”

Jackson explained the partnership was inspired by an initiative formed in Washington, D.C. in 2015, called Black Wealth 2020, which he said “… is providing an economic blueprint for Black America.”

Through the initiative, faith leaders and bank presidents hope to increase deposits and loans with Black-owned banks; up the number of Black businesses from 2.6 million to 4 million; and grow Black homeownership to more than 50 percent nationwide, according to a press release.

Speaking to The Atlanta Voice, General Board Chair Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie said he believes the church-bank collaboration is especially important for African-American youth.

“We want to be able to teach fiscal responsibility before [students] get to high school,” she said. “[It’s important] to learn the value of saving, the value of investing.”


Michael Banks, former head of the National Bankers’ Association, said he sees the partnership as imperative in regards to growing Black homeownership.

“We are educating ourselves and not only teaching our people how to get a home but also how to stay there,” Banks told the newspaper. “We worry about gentrification, but we have more power than we realize. (It’s important) to (buy) a home, and hold on to a home, and then encourage all young people to do the same.”

With over 6,000 AME churches across the U.S., faith leaders say the partnership is a real opportunity to boost wealth among Black Americans if everyone takes part.

“We believe that if most of these churches participate, more than $6 million dollars in new business can be generated,” Jackson wrote. “This could also generate in three years more than $1 billion dollars in construction loans.

“The impetus for this partnership is not only what it does for Black banks, but also what it can do for Black Americans and churches.”

http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/07...ch-new-partnership-for-longterm-black-wealth/
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This my old pastor. Holy **** lol
 
hand2handking said:
Black Immigration is Remaking U.S. Black Population, Report Says

Shop owner Ayan Diriye, left, helped a customer at Ayan’s Shop, which sells Somali goods and houses a money-transfer office called Juba Express, in February in Falls Church, Va. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...d49c58-de29-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html
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We aren't the same people though.....that's all we share in common is skin color.
They look the other way with Black American issues and always have
 
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