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Blackout Day was created as a 24-hour event that would expose the online Black community and others on social media to positive images of everyday Black individuals, through selfies, videos, gifs, and other media. Its goal was to shed a positive light on Black individuals and to combat stereotypes. The idea spread quickly once given a name, and ...
On October 28, "Black Monday", [17] more investors facing margin calls decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 38.33 points, or 12.82%. [18] On October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day ...
A solid black square, used by many to represent Blackout Tuesday. Blackout Tuesday was a collective action to protest racism and police brutality. [1] [2] The action, originally organized within the music industry in response to the murder of George Floyd, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the killing of Breonna Taylor, [3] took place on Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
Artworks commemorating African-Americans in Washington, D.C. is a group of fourteen public artworks in Washington, D.C., including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial dedicated in 2011, that commemorate African Americans. [1]
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African American Civil War Soldiers: Boston Common,Boston, MA: Augustus Saint-Gaudens: 1897 [1] Statue of Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass Memorial Square, Rochester, NY. Sidney W. Edwards: 1899 Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester. Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort: Colored soldiers
GOP lawmakers are framing the IRS's free direct tax filing system as an example of the "weaponization of government against Americans." Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images