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Confederate Charlottesville Statue of Robert E. Lee To Be Melted Down and Turned Into Black-Designed Art

Jeroslyn JohnsonDecember 10, 2021December 10, 2021

by Jeroslyn JohnsonDecember 10, 2021December 10, 2021278

Charlottesville is taking a radical approach to the removal of a Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee by melting it and turning it into Black-designed...

News

Virginia Court Rules Charlottesville Can Remove Confederate Statues

Jeroslyn JohnsonApril 3, 2021April 3, 2021

by Jeroslyn JohnsonApril 3, 2021April 3, 20211154

Cities in Virginia have since removed Confederate monuments...

Education

10 Campuses Selected as Sites for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Centers

Robin White GoodeAugust 26, 2017October 4, 2017

by Robin White GoodeAugust 26, 2017October 4, 20171131

“But the overarching goal is to jettison a belief in a hierarchy of human value,” she continued. “And what we’ve seen across the country—and Charlottesville...

Lifestyle

Six Things Black People Should Always Hold Valuable

Jerome D. LoveAugust 25, 2017September 23, 2017

by Jerome D. LoveAugust 25, 2017September 23, 20173182

For having a Black Expo and valuing black businesses and black people, we are called racist. I wonder if the people attacking us are the...

Uncategorized

America Is Better Than This

Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.August 24, 2017November 18, 2017

by Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.August 24, 2017November 18, 2017367

America is better than this. As long as we insist on choosing sides we will never resolve the critical challenges we face....

Education

Confederate Monuments Removed from College Campuses Across the Country

Robin White GoodeAugust 22, 2017September 23, 2017

by Robin White GoodeAugust 22, 2017September 23, 2017826

He said Germans understood that their Nazi past was shameful, not a thing to be memorialized or romanticized. But in the U.S., we’ve never reckoned...

Entrepreneurship

JPMorgan Chase Plunks Down $2 Million to Fight Racism after Charlottesville

Samara LynnAugust 22, 2017September 29, 2017

by Samara LynnAugust 22, 2017September 29, 2017990

Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan, publicly and vociferously criticized President Trump’s reaction to the discord in Charlottesville....

Entrepreneurship

7 Leading Companies Combating Racism Post-Charlottesville

Selena HillAugust 17, 2017July 25, 2019

by Selena HillAugust 17, 2017July 25, 20192512

Here’s a list of 7 prominent corporations that have joined the #Resistance movement to combat white supremacy following of the deadly tragedy in Charlottesville....

Career

Black People in Racist Work Environments: Sellouts or Changing Perspectives?

Selena HillAugust 16, 2017September 23, 2017

by Selena HillAugust 16, 2017September 23, 20171955

Black Enterprise spoke exclusively to a group of politically diverse black professionals, including Fox News host Eboni K. Williams, about effecting change from the inside...

Education

Don’t Leave Children Behind in Charlottesville

Selena HillAugust 14, 2017September 23, 2017

by Selena HillAugust 14, 2017September 23, 2017403

Educator says teachers should turn the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, into a teachable moment about racism and American history....