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From the Archive: Black Hebrews, from Chicago to Dimona
Black Hebrews who had come to the airport to greet the new arrivals “protested vigorously” and “claimed that they were the true Hebrews, ‘sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ and that the ...
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One of the Jersey City shooters was a Black Hebrew Israelite. Here’s what you need to know about the movement.
The movement emerged from a stream of late 19th-century black nationalism that claimed African-Americans were the true descendants of the ancient Hebrews. Some estimates put the number of ...