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America, time to stop acting brand new — we’ve got unfinished business

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By Elinor Tatum Verified, Madison Gray Verified
| New York Amsterdam News Verified
On April 14, 1865, celebrated stage actor and über-racist John Wilkes Booth slipped into President Abraham Lincoln’s booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.; pulled out his Derringer pistol … and you probably learned the rest in grade school. America had technically ended the Civil War days earlier, but Booth wasn’t having it. He killed Lincoln for doing the unthinkable: defeating the South and the institution of slavery.
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Why do we only exist during Black History Month?

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By Elinor Tatum Verified
| The Inner-City News
by Elinor Tatum I am not naming these months, or mentioning a horrible president to pit one observance against another. But it does get pretty ridiculous–there is a national frog month and a national popcorn month. I expect we will be hearing soon from the society for the prevention of cruelty to pigs, asking us not to eat pork some time during the summer. But of course we do have Black History Month. This wasn’t conjured up by some marketing executive trying to get free publicity for his client.
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United in purpose, Black men connected

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By Elinor Tatum Verified
| New York Amsterdam News Verified
As Monday’s Million Man March came to a close and the 1.2 million people, as estimated by march officials, who had gathered at the Mall started to make their way back home, an overwhelming sense of purpose was discovered. The men, from all walks of life, all corners of the country, all ages, came together in a show of unity that will go down in history as the greatest moment for Black people in this century:the Million Man March.
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