This week in history, formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass bluntly criticized the failure of American commitments to "freedom"  in several Independence Day addresses.  "The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro" was delivered to a ...

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By Sikivu HutchinsonEditor of blackfemlens.orgLate Saturday afternoon, like clockwork, the street corner preachers on Crenshaw and King Boulevard in South Los Angeles take to the “stage.” Decked out in flowing robes and dreadlocks, they fulminate ...