10 Hip Hop Songs That Mention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar ‘It’s Important for Athletes to Speak Out’ in Wake of George Floyd Protests

Jabbar, the all-time leading scorer in NBA history who earned six world titles, boycotted the 1968 Olympics in the wake of social unrest and the aftermath of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther

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Public Visitation, Service for Dr. Thomas Freeman Scheduled for June 16

Texas Southern University will host a public visitation for Dr. Thomas F. Freeman on Tuesday, June 16, from 10 a.m.-12:45 p.m., with a memorial service to follow, in the Health & Physical Education (H&PE) Arena (3010 Wheeler Avenue, Houston, TX

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Senator Tim Scott Asking Questions That He Already Knows The Answer To.

The harsh reality is that for the entirety of America’s existence, neither political party has offered Blacks a significant opening to exercise the theoretical equality promoted in a series of Civil Rights and Voting Rights

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Source: ThyBlackMan

A List of the Most Powerful Civil Rights Songs

Equal civil rights in America would have been pursued and strides would have been made without the participation of blues, gospel and folk singers and songwriters. But the presence of these artists and their remarkable contributions to the long struggle for equal civil rights in the U.S., plus the

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Source: ThoughtCo

Loss of a Legend: Noted TSU Professor Dr. Thomas F. Freeman dies at 100

Dr. Thomas F. Freeman, a legend, educational icon, and sage to innumerable students at Texas Southern University, passed away on Saturday, June 6, following a brief illness at age

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

BLACK METHODIST CHURCHES DEMAND JUSTICE | Dallas Weekly

Senior Bishops of Black Methodist United (BMU), who represent three major Methodist denominations, issued the following statement about the merciless killings of Black sons and

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Tears We Cannot Stop: Michael Eric Dyson Explains Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy to Us Today

On January 17, 2017, eighty-eight years after the birth of the most revered civil rights leader in the 20th Century, Georgetown University scholar, social activist, reverend, and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson describes in his new book, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, his

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Source: Black Past

Jan

17

2017

Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana by five ministers including Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, Fred Shuttlesworth and C.K. Steele. Dr. King was the founding president, Abernathy president emeritus and Rep. Walter

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Jan

10

1957

The Truth is No Longer Color Blind

The dastardly “his-storical” truth is that it’s all in plain old Black and White for the world to see, and that’s as near a reality as the distance from Minneapolis to Houston is as this potentially great nation struggles with the mounting police miscarriages, exposing continual systematic

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

WATCH: Kareem Abdul Jabbar Speaks to the Black Press About Injustice

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Jackson, Mahalia

Jackson, Mahalia məhăl´yə [key], 1911–72, American gospel singer, b. New Orleans. She sang in church choirs during her childhood. Moving (1927) to Chicago, she worked at various menial jobs and sang in churches and at revival meetings, attracting attention for her vigorous, joyful gospel style. As

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Nine Testing Sites Available for Milwaukee’s North Side Neighborhoods

MILWAUKEE— Starting this week, the Wisconsin National Guard will be pausing COVID-19 testing at its Midtown

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Ralph Abernathy dies

Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, keystone of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, died of heart failure.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

17

1990

Spinning Constructive Disruption

The acquittal of the cops who on camera beat the hell out of Rodney King also sparked protests across the country, but Charleston was

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

As MLK asked in 1967, Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos?

Over the years, this column has reported on racial disparities in homeownership, family wealth, the lack of access to affordable credit, and the pattern of alternative financial services preying upon communities of color by charging triple-digit interest rates on small-dollar

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Nina Simone

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1885 – )

Founded in 1886 by Pastor John Andrew Parker, a freedman, Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia had only 13 members and no church building upon Parker’s passing in 1894 and when Alfred Daniel Williams became its second pastor. Williams’ powerful sermons and strong leadership skills increased

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Source: Black Past

A beginner’s guide to the NPHC ‘Divine Nine’

Above, members of “Divine Nine” National Pan-Hellenic Council Greek organizations pose together on the campus of N.C. State

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Source: College Town

Statement from Council Member Adam Bazaldua | Dallas Weekly

Not about the property damage or the anger that is spilling out through riots across our country, but because this is what it seems to take to get a reaction from our society, from the status

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Rayshard Brooks memorialized at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church

Family, friends, dignitaries, elected officials and community leaders gathered yesterday to remember the life of Rayshard Brooks at Historic Ebenezer Baptist

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Young, Andrew (1932 - )

Andrew Young, Jr., came into prominence as a civil rights activist and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the modern civil rights movement in the United States. Young worked with various organizations early in the movement, but his civil rights work was largely done with the

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Source: Black Past

Mar

12

1932

Duval County Junteenth Events Fight the Power for Future Generations – Free Press of Jacksonville

One of the many sights and scenes for Juneteenth this year included fighting the power for the Junteenth at the Tea Posh Natural restaurant at their new location on 8th

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda

Instead, it was my discovery that many similar racists questions, posed by equally obnoxious White provocateurs could be found in the website’s dark alleys and

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

(1964) Joseph Jackson, "The Vote is the Only Effective Weapon in the Civil Rights Struggle"

Rev. Joseph Jackson, long time pastor of Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, and President of the National Baptist Convention from 1953 to 1982 became the leading spokesperson for the black conservative opposition to the direct action civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King and

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Source: Black Past

Sep

19

1964

Marion Barry

Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014)[1] was an American politician who served as the second Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of

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Ancestry of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to a long line of preachers. His father, Martin Luther King, Sr. was a pastor for the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His maternal grandfather, the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, was famous for his fiery sermons. His

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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and minister. He was born as Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 to a 16 year high school student named Helen Burns out of wedlock. Jesse’s biological father was their 33 year old neighbor named Noah Louis Robinson who was married to someone

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Source: Black History Resources

Oct

8

1941

Shalem Healing offering COVID-19 testing Wednesday, June 17th

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Black Activists Confront Affirmative Action Opponents on Zoom Call

Dr. Mei-ling Malone, adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Lonnie King: Organized "The Second Battle of Atlanta"

Lonnie C. King organized thousands of students to sit-in at lunch counters in Atlanta in the

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