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Award Winning Short Film by Tahneek Rahman: A deaf girl comes across a boy who is paralyzed from the waist-down, but neither of them know about each other's differences.
 
Short Film by M. Dudok de Wit: A father bids farewell to his young daughter; she grows up longing for his return.
 
This video is titled 13 CRAZY Things White People Think About Black Hair at Work and at School. It was part of an original article in the Huffington Post as a response to Black women having their jobs threatened because of their natural hair and Black girls being kicked out of school because of the same.  Read More
 
Hair Love, an Oscar®-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.
 
The new restrictions on travel to the U.S. from six countries: Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar and Nigeria. It is also barring people from Sudan and Tanzania from participating in the U.S. Diversity Visa Program, which awards green cards to immigrants.
 
In 2018, Kobe Bryant became the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and the first former professional athlete to be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category for his film Dear Basketball.
 
Kobe Bryant AKA The Black Mamba's jersey retirement ceremony as the Los Angeles Lakers organization retires both number 8 and number 24 into the rafters of the Staples Center alongside Lakers greats!
 
Video "Dear Basketball" wins Best Animated Short Film - Watch the full film here - Oscar Shorts 2018 - Narrated by Bryant. Basketball great Kobe Bryant collaborated with visionary animator Glen Keane and legendary composer John Williams on an animated short film that explores what it means to achieve your dream, and then leave it behind. The...
 
Fannie Lou Hamer was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. She defied anyone who tried to silence her. Hamer is credited with coining the phrase "Mississippi appendectomy" as a euphemism for the involuntary or uninformed sterilization of black women, common in the South in the 1960s.
 
15 Things You Didn't Know About Mansa Musa
 
Video: The 1985 Move bombing in Philadelphia - What is Move Delbert Orr Africa finally walked free from Pennsylvania's state prison after serving over four decades for a crime he insists he did not commit, making him the eighth of nine Black Liberation MOVE members to be released or have died in prison. Read More: The Power of Righteousness by...
 
A Promise of Freedom is an introduction to U.S. history and civics for immigrants with discussion booklet free to view, share, and download.

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