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• White Sox’s Anderson KO’d by Ramírez Amid Nightmare Season

  06-08-2023 22:53
  
  The Chicago White Sox’s biggest star, amid his worst season, suffered further embarrassment Saturday night.
  Tim Anderson, White Sox infielder and pride of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, got laid out in a confrontation with Cleveland Guardians star José Ramírez during a game at Progressive Field.
  The confrontation occurred in the 6th inning when Ramírez hit a double to drive in the Guardians’ first run of the game. As Ramírez slid into second base, Anderson applied a
  
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• COLUMN: Federal Trade Commission Hindering Black Economic Achievement

  06-08-2023 16:30
  
  By Julianne Malveaux
  The Biden Administration has been pushing hard for credit for its significant economic successes. Coining the phrase ‘Bidenomics,’ the term is meant to direct attention towards the administration’s striking successful economic agenda. Under President Biden, the rate of inflation has been more than cut in half, employers have created more than 13 million jobs, wage growth has outpaced inflation, and the unemployment rate of Black workers is at a record-break
  
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• ‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop

  06-08-2023 15:00
  
  The popular phrase ‘knowledge of self’ – invoked by numerous rappers who adhere to Islam – is nearly a millennium old.Paul Hawthorne for Getty Images
  by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, University of Michigan
  I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full” dropped. I have vivid memories of the bass-laden track booming out of car stereos and hearing it on Black radio, like Kiss FM’s top eight at 8 p.m. countdown.
  On the track “Move the Cro
  
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• RealTalk: A Black Perspective “Warping History: The New Florida African American History Standards”

  06-08-2023 14:30
  
  By Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
  Florida’s 2023 African American History Standards falsify and distort Black history. They will produce a sanitized history. One which subtly indoctrinates students into a perverse patriotism and uncritical worship of capitalism.
  The new standards emphasize contributionism or how African Americans served white America’s interests. The word “contribution” is ubiquitous throughout the new standards. For instance, a 6-8 grade exercise asks students t
  
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