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The ‘Mis-education of the Negro’ remains in full effect today

June 21, 2020 / By: aframnews

destroyed Blacks for generations. Enough is enough! And for anyone who is in favor of placing the Confederate statue in HMAAC, I feel you need to read the "Mis-Education of the Negro," by Carter G. Woodson. If you did, you would see just how many of us are still trapped in a slave mentality.

Youth scream out, ‘We are not our ancestors!’

June 21, 2020 / By: aframnews

Did the little sister just accuse the ancestors of being cowards and wimps, fading and withering before oppression? Did she know about how our ancestors fought back during the red summer of 1919? Did she know that our ancestors jumped overboard from the slave ships into the jaws of sharks? Did she know that that between 1865 and 1910 that there were 3500 recorded lynching’s of black people in the US?

WARNING to Black Fathers

June 21, 2020 / By: aframnews

We'd love to tell you "Happy" Father's Day, but in today's day and age, we feel the need to just say "Congratulations, you've made it another year." In the words of Charles S. Dutton in the movie Menace 2 Society, "the HUNT is on."

Uncle Ben’s, Aunt Jemima to remove racial stereotypes

June 17, 2020 / By: aframnews

In this day of "a change is gonna come," businesses are finally starting to take ownership of the racial stereotypes of which some of them have been operating. It is now time to say goodbye to "Aunt Jemima" and "Uncle Ben."

Has Turner lost his damn mind? Racist statues to be placed in African American museum?

June 12, 2020 / By: aframnews

A press release sent out by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner's office on Thursday had me stop the printing of our newspaper after learning what the Black man leading this city has decided to do -- and on Juneteenth, to add insult to injury. While organizations across the nation are REMOVING, and even vandalizing, racist statues, Mayor Turner has decided to remove two in Houston - but is relocating one of them to our beloved African American museum?