Actor/Comedian Garrett Morris born

Menard, John Willis (1838-1893)

John Willis Menard, abolitionist, author, journalist and politician, was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia, Illinois, to French Creole parents. He was the first African American elected to Congress, but was not seated after a dispute over the election results. Menard attended Iberia College, an

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Hear From People Who Celebrated Juneteenth Nationwide

Yesterday, people across the country gathered to mark Juneteenth with celebrations and

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Source: Stories About Black History

Jimmy Fallon Apologizes For Resurfaced Blackface Chris Rock Skit

The talk show host portrayed the comedian on ‘SNL.'

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

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

Roberto Monsivais joins BancorpSouth, Longview, Texas

BancorpSouth Bank (NYSE: BXS) announced today Roberto Monsivais has been hired as a community development mortgage loan originator, serving the Longview and Marshall, Texas

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The Emancipation Proclamation

On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln went into effect. The Proclamation, written the previous September, declared free all enslaved people in the Confederate States (or portions of those states) who resided in territory still in rebellion

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Jan

1

1863

Xavier Submits Official Request to City of New Orleans to Rename South Jefferson Davis to Norman C. Francis

NEW ORLEANS – Reynold Verret, current President of Xavier University of Louisiana, yesterday resubmitted the official request to rename South Jefferson Davis Parkway in honor of President Emeritus Norman

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O’Neal, Adrienne S. (1954- )

In 2011, Adrienne S. O’Neal, career Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde). O’Neal was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 to Samuel and Vernese Boulware ONeal. Her

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Wilson, Lionel (1915-1998)

Lionel Wilson, lawyer, judge, and politician, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 4, 1915 to Jules and Louise Wilson. In 1918 the family moved to Oakland, California, where his parents believed a smaller and less-noticeable black community would afford them greater freedoms and less

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Jan

23

1998

Andrew Young born

Andrew Young, former US United Nations ambassador, former congressman and former mayor of Atlanta, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Mar

12

1932

LeBron James

LeBron James is an American basketball superstar who currently plays for the National Basketball Association (NBA) team “Cleveland Cavaliers”. He is six feet, eight inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. He was born to a 16 year old single mother named Gloria Marie James on December

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TSD FLASH! - News, views and music

All of that and this

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Protesters Call Attention to Deaths of Two More Black Men | Afro

By Russ Bynum and Ed White

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(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”

Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University. Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School. After graduation he practiced in Boston. By the 1880s Grimke

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Juneteenth by the Numbers | The Atlanta Voice

Here’s a look at Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day and Jubilee Day, by the

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Black Men Letters to America…The Next Generation

Data News Weekly wanted to publish an open letter to America from young Black

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Prescription for Excellence

In March, Dr. Cynthia Kudji Sylvester, and Dr. Jasmine Kudji made headlines for becoming “the first mother and daughter to attend medical school at the same time and match at the same institution,” according to Kudji Sylvester’s Medical

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Black church

The term black church or African-American church refers to Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist

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Funny Barack Obama Videos and Viral Clips

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Aug

11

2017

Drew Brees Apologizes After Criticism Regarding NFL Player Protests

Drew Brees Apologizes After Criticism Regarding NFL Players Protesting During National

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An Unfamiliar, Rare Disease Associated With Heart Failure In African Americans

By Dr. Kevin Williams, the Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer

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Surviving in America's Black Belt amid pandemic and job loss

Both the need and the relief have been on display in the historic civil rights city of Selma, where volunteers distributed free food to scores of people, many of whom shared rides from isolated communities just to get to the school where boxes of fruit and vegetables were

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Curtis Cokes, Hall of Fame welterweight champion, dies at 82

DALLAS (AP) — Curtis Cokes, the Hall of Fame welterweight who became Dallas’ first world champion in 1966, has

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Reverse Freedom Rides: When segregationists tricked blacks from the South into moving north

A segregationist publicity stunt spearheaded by George Singelmann of the White Citizens Council in New Orleans, the Reverse Freedom Rides program was to trick hundreds of African Americans from the South into moving

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Martin Lawrence

Martin Lawrence is an American actor and comedian who has starred in numerous Hollywood hits. He was born on April 16, 1965 to John and Chlora Lawrence. John Lawrence was enlisted in the U.S. military and serving in Frankfurt, Germany at the time so Martin was born there. He was named after the

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Apr

16

1965

Justice Smith Comes Out As Queer, Urges Protests To Include Black Queer And Trans Lives

Actor Justice Smith has come out as queer in a post calling for protesters not to forget Black queer and trans individuals as anti-racist protests continue across the

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Councilmember Helena Moreno Announces $22M of Direct Entergy Bill Assistance for New Orleanians Facing Job Loss

NEW ORLEANS- On (May 21, 2020) Council Utilities Chair Helena Moreno announced she and her colleagues will be directing Entergy New Orleans to provide $22M of Direct Bill Assistance to residential

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Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement

In the article below, Syracuse University historian Herbert Ruffin explores the rapid rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement as the most recent development in the ongoing struggle for racial and social justice in the United

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'SNL' Star Jay Pharoah Shares Video Of Police Brutalizing Him On Week Before Ahmaud Arbery's Death

Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah came dangerously close to having his own "jogging while Black" incident in Los Angeles this past February, one week before Ahmaud

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D.C.'s Go-Go music explained in a documentary 'The Beat Don't Stop'

New York City is the birthplace of Hip-Hop and Electro beats, and many of those styles birthed out of its gritty streets have shaped the way people think about East Coast urban

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