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Selma

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Bring Back Our Girls

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This entire campaign to return the young girls to their homes has been fueled a great deal through social media. Social media raised the consciousness of celebrities, politicians, and proletarians. Although there is so much trash circulating through social media, this is proof of its potential to do good. I pray that these girls are returned. It's sad that we live in a world that continues to treat women as property. God be with each and every one of them. May He who is comfort be their (girls and their family) comfort in this difficult time. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

George Junius Stinney Jr.

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Advocates push for retrial to clear name of 14-year-old ’killer’ executed in 1944

Scottsboro Boys of Alabama

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Protest in Washington, D.C. 1933 March 25, 1931 - Scottsboro Boys Before there was the Jena Six there was The Scottsboro Nine.  The Scottsboro Boys were nine young African Americans who were falsely charged with rape and collectively served more than 100 years in prison. This case would mobilize thousands of African Americans to speak out in protest, and the  rights of African Americans to serve on juries was established by their case.  Read More... Photo Source:   preservationnation.org Information Source: writing.upenn.edu and University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law Book on subject:

Poem 4: Wor(L)d Problem

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Wor(L)d Problem Let us imagine that the discontent in the Black community could be summed up like a word problem Question: How many injustices would it take for one Black Nation to explode? Answer: 2 Kings 2 Many 2 Kings 2 Many By: Stephen Bess 1992