10 Ways Racism Killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner

A New York City police officer put his arm around Eric Garner's neck and choked out his life as he screamed "I can't breathe!" A police officer in Ferguson, MO aimed his gun at Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager and shot him multiple times while he reportedly pleaded, "I don't have a gun. Stop Shooting!"

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History's Lessons Live at Martinique's La Savane des Esclaves

Several contemporary commentators assert that we live in a post-racial society. While that certainly is a worthy and necessary goal, it clearly has yet to be achieved. Recent events in Europe and the Middle East illustrate that issues surrounding ethnicity, race and culture continue to have an explosive ability to inflame human passions and action. Indeed, these have existed as human traits across time.

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Black European music (women) - Black History Month special

Because it's Black History Month a special Black History compilation of chart-topping Afro-European (or Black European) female singers, who made their mark nationally and internationally. Next week the men. Best way to start is with a video of Sade - Nothing Can Come Between Us (UK) of 1988. The band's first hit single was "Your Love Is King" from the debut album, Diamond Life (1984).

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