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  2. History of African Americans in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    African Americans. The history of African Americans or Black Philadelphians in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been documented in various sources. People of African descent are currently the largest ethnic group in Philadelphia. Estimates in 2010 by the U.S. Census Bureau documented the total number of people living in Philadelphia ...

  3. Black power - Wikipedia

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    African Americans. Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. [1] [2] It is primarily, but not exclusively, used by black activists and other proponents of what the slogan entails in the United States. [3]

  4. Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout - Wikipedia

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    yeahphilly .org. Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout, also known as YEAH Philly, is a non-profit community organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that works with teens and young adults who have been impacted by violence. [1] It was founded in 2018 by Kendra Van de Water and James Aye as a Black-led organization in an effort to ...

  5. Hundreds of killings drove Philadelphia Black voters to back ...

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    In 1883, after a police-protected mob attack on abolitionists and police beatings of Black voters, Philadelphia in 1924 studied its policing of Black people. The study determined that Black people ...

  6. Black power movement - Wikipedia

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    e. The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods ...

  7. Umar Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah-Johnson (born Jermaine Shoemake; August 21, 1974) is an American Black activist, [1] social media personality, [2] school psychologist, and motivational speaker. [3] A controversial figure, Johnson is a Pan-Africanist who condemns interracial marriage and homosexuality. [4] [5]

  8. How hip-hop spurred the growth in Black businesses and ... - AOL

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    The 50th anniversary of hip-hop coincides with the national Black business month in August, and the former has been a driver of growth and empowerment for the latter, according to leaders in the ...

  9. Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ...

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    The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ( UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey. The Pan-African organization enjoyed its greatest strength in the 1920s, and was influential prior to ...