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Tag: Black Lives Matter

  • Prof Patty
  • November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Black Lives Matter? Really? To You?

How can you show your support for treating black folks equally without marching or demonstrating? According to The Strategist, “You can donate money to a local, grassroots organiza

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 20, 2020

Uncle Ben’s Rebrands as Ben’s Original

By Mike Pomranz  September 23, 2020 In 2020, as the Black Lives Matter movement grew in prominence, America also further reckoned with brands considered to be culturally in

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

For Pastors of White Churches with Black Members

The Church’s Black Exodus Pastors’ silence on racism and COVID-19 is driving Black parishioners away from their congregations. DARA T. MATHIS OCTOBER 11, 2020 Across the country, Black Ame

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 3, 2020September 3, 2020

American Catholics and the Black Lives Matter Movement

Racism makes a liar of God. It says not everyone is made in his image. What a horrible lie from the pit of hell. Gloria Purvis, co-host of a popular Catholic radio show, “Morning Glory,” and a

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  • Prof Patty
  • August 8, 2020August 8, 2020

America’s Most Racist Town

Man held up a Black Lives Matter sign in ‘America’s Most Racist Town’ and shared how it went This is full of profanity and ugliness but is familiar to many, many black and brown folks.

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