UN Secretary-General António Guterre stated today:
“Now we must remove the persistent barriers that prevent so many people of African descent from exercising their rights and realising their potential,”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199
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Huge update from the UN today, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has secured a UN resolution declaring the slave trade (and it's lasting impacts) as one of the world's worst human rights abuses.
President Mahama stressed the importance of this resolution in the fight for reparations paid by the countries who profited from slavery.
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Hey hey hey artists on #MastoArt , remember that it is alwaysss black history month every month and look what just launched!
Afroindex is a whole Reference Library for Black Hairstyles!!! Are you listening??
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From my Instagram re: renaming Cesar Chavez Ave in #losangeles back to Brooklyn Ave.
Complete with a history lesson for those that don't know Black LA history.
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0 likes, 0 comments - iveyjanette207 on March 25, 2026: "Here's my comments on the renaming of Cesar Chavez Ave in #BoyleHeights and #EastLA back to Brooklyn Ave. AKA la Brooklyn. A lot of y'all don't know,but the Flakes family roots in LA were planted three block south of la Brooklyn,on 1st St. Everyone in our family except my brother @tarheeldarrin_ lived in that hood at one time or another until the late 60's when we moved to South Central. It was always Brooklyn Ave to us. Mom and grandma still called it Brooklyn after they named the street after Cesar Chavez. (But then again, grandma and Aunt Irene still called MLK Jr Blvd Santa Barbara Ave until they passed.) Do the right thing,Mayor Bass and Councilwoman Jurado. Change the name of the street back to Brooklyn. #losangeles".
Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. IWW cofounder Lucy Parsons and many other radicals also supported the cause. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case. It is believed that the case influenced Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” which has a scene with a lynch mob going after a jailed African American man that is reminiscent of the lynch mob that went after the jailed Scottsboro Boys. Lead Belly did a song called “The Scottsboro Boys,” in which he tells listeners to “stay woke” when travelling through the South. Rage Against the Machine provides images of the Scottsboro Boys, and Sacco and Vanzetti, in their music video “No Shelter.”
The image accompanying this article is of an International Red Aid propaganda poster in Russian and Uzbek language that reads: "Wrest eight innocent young negroes out of the hands of the American bourgeoisie!" A U.S. cop is depicted in front of the Nazi swastika with baton raised against food rioters.
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Aretha Franklin would have been 84 today.
Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 – 25 March 1918) was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent.
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Shrinking S02E11
A Sister Gaby immediately calls out a white woman Liz when she repeats what Gaby expressed in Ebonics.
Liz immediately stops without white fragility.
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NOW PLAYING == The Remix Morning Show 3/25/26: Time to Say #Peace
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Growing list of those born or died on March 25 in any year
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian. He is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947 and continually updated.
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