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t. e. Henry " Enrique " Tarrio[ 7] ( US English: / ˈtɑːrioʊ / TAR-ee-oh, US Spanish: [taˈri.o]; born 1983 or 1984) is an American convicted seditionist [ 8] and far-right activist. From 2018 to 2021, he was the chairman of the Proud Boys, [ 7] a far-right neo-fascist organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the ...
Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843. Minstrel shows became a popular form of theater during the nineteenth century, which portrayed African Americans in stereotypical and often disparaging ways, some of the most common being that they are ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical. [10]
Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.
The Black Mafia Family ( BMF) is a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States. It was founded in 1985, in Southwest Detroit by brothers Demetrius Edward "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry Lee "Southwest Tee" Flenory. By 2000 it had established cocaine distribution sales throughout the United States through its Los ...
Black cowboys. A Black cowboy from the early 1900s. Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to an estimated 25% of cowboys "who went up the trail" from the 1860s to 1880s and substantial but unknown percentage [contradictory] in the rest of the ranching industry, [ 1][ 2] estimated to be at least 5,000 workers according to recent ...
Murder of Yusef Hawkins. Yusef Kirriem Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins, March 19, 1973 – August 23, 1989) was a 16-year-old black teenager from the neighborhood of East New York, [ 1] in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, who was shot to death on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class ...
Robinson is wearing the uniform of then-Brooklyn Dodgers affiliate the Montreal Royals. (Getty Images) –. Jackie Robinson made history when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ...