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LA Riots
April 30, 1992: Tensions between Korean American grocers and their Black clientele had been growing since the Harlins verdict, and in South Central protesters targeted Korean-owned businesses. By the second day of the riots, violence began spreading north to the Koreatown neighborhood. While the L.A.P.D. worked to insulate wealthy West Los Angeles neighborhoods from looting, Koreatown residents were left to defend themselves. -
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was the first black writer and director of a studio film. He told life in 1999. "I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera." -
NIC LOTT
In 2000, Nic Lott became the first African-American University of Mississippi Associated Student Body President for the 2000-2001 academic year. -
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American retired politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, was the first African-American president of the United States. -
Eric Garner
Eric Garner dies after being put in a chokehold by arresting officers in Staten Island, New York. In the video later released, he is heard pleading “I can’t breathe” 11 times. When Michael Brown is killed by police a month later, the Black Lives Matter movement gains international recognition. -
African-Americans Shot
Nine African-Americans are shot dead by a white supremacist during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. -
Colin Kaepernick
On September 25, 2016 the black lives matter movement gained renewed attention when san francisco 49ers players Eric Reid, Eli Harold, and quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem before the game against the seattle seahawks to draw attention to recent acts of police brutality. -
Stacey Abrams
Democrat Stacey Abrams loses the election for governor in Georgia, a defeat in which voter suppression of the black electorate plays a large part. Abrams mounts a campaign for voter registration and in the 2020 presidential elections a large black turnout tips the state for Joe Biden. In 2021, Georgia elects two Democrat senators, giving Abrams' party control of the US Senate. One of the senators, Rev Raphael Warnock, is the first African American to represent Georgia. -
George Floyd
George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African-American man who was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd may have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. -
Georgia Senate Election
January 2021 Raphael Warnock as the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, Standing in the way is another Black man, Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Both men have common upbringings in the Deep South in the wake of the civil rights movement and would make history as the first Black person elected from Georgia to a full Senate term. Yet Warnock and Walker have cut different paths and offer clearly opposing visions for the country, including on race and racism.