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July 14, 2020 — Reparations Roundtable for Black Americans (Zoom Webinar)

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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E3 Family Ties

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Tracing back Isadore’s family helps understand his wealth. Isadore wasn’t an anomaly—many African Americans in the south had land, built

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Is This Your Queen? (paulsowers.com)

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The only thing I will say about Nikole Hannah-Jones is this: I met her in early October of 2018 when

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Saturday Morning Solutions 7.11.20 (soundcloud.com, WLOU 104.7 FM Louisville, KY)

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Saturday Morning Solution Show. Originally broadcast July 11, 2020 on PraizePower 1350AM/The New Praize 104.7 FM WLOU Radio, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E2 The High Sheriff

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A $7 million dollar fortune. A white supremacist sheriff. And a 66-year old mystery: what happened to Isadore Banks’ land

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#ADOS and the End of the Remix Business (paulsowers.com)

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Why do we do this? Why? Why do we pat ourselves and others on the back for our weird, Tiësto-like

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07.01.2020 Simmons College of Kentucky West Louisville Forum (facebook.com)

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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E1 Isadore Banks

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For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to survive—and thrive—in the violently anti-black South. He became one of

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#ADOS and Africa as the Mother Gothel Land (paulsowers.com)

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For those of you who’ve not been sheltering-in-place with a two year-old who is on a media diet high in

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06.21.2020 One Mo’pinion: How Reparations?

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Michael R Hicks, Lead Editor, TheLENS We in America love the good parts of our history, we extol the founding

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Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester, June 21st, West Louisville Forum

Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester, June 21st, West Louisville Forum

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

O.P.E.N. to SCKY 2023

O.P.E.N. to SCKY 2023

Happy Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth!

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TheLENS (your Leading Ebony News Source) is the official publication of the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. Center for Racial Justice. Our purpose is to educate America and advocate for the interests of Black American descendants of United States chattel slavery and its institutions.
Simmons College of Kentucky is the official school of the National Baptist Convention of America, Dr. Samuel L. Tolbert, President. Michael R. Hicks, Editor-In-Chief, TheLENS

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