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Hawkins, Gordon (1959- )

Gordon Hawkins was born in Clinton, Maryland, in 1959, into a family with six older brothers and sisters. He graduated from the University of Maryland’s School of Music. He is a baritone opera singer and considered one of the very best in the world. Baritone is the second deepest tone of voice for

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caribbean integration

This day markst the 26th anniversary of the Treaty of Chaguramas which was signed in Trinidad, July 4, 1973 to establish the Caribbean Community and Common Market - CARICOM. It was the result of a 15 year effort to fulfil the hope of regional integration which began with the establishment of the

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Jul

4

1973

Assassin of M.L.K. Captured

James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured at London airport.

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Jun

8

1968

Charles Drew, born

Dr. Charles Drew was born in Washington DC. Drew attended medical schools in Montreal, Canada. After much research and study, Drew discovered a way to preserve blood in the form of plasma so it could be stored for long periods of time.

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Jul

3

1904

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at

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Feb

12

1865

African Company / African Grove Theatre

The African Company was the first known black theatre troupe. In 1816, William Henry Brown (1815-1884), a retired West Indian steamship steward, acquired a house on Thomas Street in lower Manhattan, New York. He offered a variety of instrumental and vocal entertainments on Sunday afternoons in his

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Smokey Robinson made one mother's Hanukkah very memorable | The Atlanta Voice

Smokey Robinson took a do-over at pronouncing Hanukkah for a fan on Cameo, the celebrity greeting service. The Motown legend accidentally mispronounced the Jewish holiday when he read the Hebrew spelling Chanukah (Cha-NOOK-ah) and posted it on Twitter Sunday. 'My mom grew up on the same street as

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Taylor, John Baxter, Jr. (1882-1908)

The first African American to win an Olympic Gold Medal, John Baxter Taylor was born November 3, 1882, in Washington, D.C. He attended Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he ran track and was the only African American on the team. After graduating from high school in

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Dec

2

1908

(1865) Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish”

On February 12, 1865, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a former slave and now pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., became the first African American to speak in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. His sermon was delivered on Sunday, February 12, 1865 within days

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Feb

12

1865

Camp George Jordan

Camp George Jordan was a United States Army facility established in Seattle, Washington, during World War II. It was generally known as a Black army camp, because it was segregated in such a way that the African Americans were housed on one side of the street – referred to as “Camp Jordan

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(1964) Fannie Lee Chaney, “Meridian Awakened”

Shortly after her son, James Chaney was murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 along with Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, Fannie Lee Chaney gave an address in which she vowed to continue the struggle for racial justice in her home state. She also announced that 12 year old Ben

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Canada’s new envoy accredited - Stabroek News

President Irfaan Ali yesterday received Letters of Credence from Mark Berman, accrediting him as High Commissioner Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Guyana. The article Canada’s new envoy accredited appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Guyana got 17.4% of oil sales in profit for 2020 - Stabroek News

Dear Editor, Guyana got 17.4% of oil sales in profit for 2020. The article Guyana got 17.4% of oil sales in profit for 2020 appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson was the second African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard — the first was W.E.B. DuBois… Woodson served as an education administrator in the Philippines from 1904 to 1907… He launched the publication The Negro Bulletin in 1937 as a way to reach younger audiences… President Gerald

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815–1902, American reformer, a leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Johnstown, N.Y. She was educated at the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) in Troy, N.Y. In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a journalist and abolitionist, and attended with him

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Region 10 sees spike in COVID cases - Stabroek News

Thirty persons were yesterday confirmed positive for COVID-19 according to the Ministry of Health’s dashboard. The article Region 10 sees spike in COVID cases appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Underground Railroad, The (1820-1861)

The Underground Railroad was established to aid enslaved people in their escape to freedom. The railroad was comprised of dozens of secret routes and safe houses originating in the slaveholding states and extending all the way to the Canadian border, the only area where fugitives could be assured

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Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003)

Idi Amin was the Ugandan military dictator and President from 1971 to 1979. During his reign Amin’s military forces are estimated to have killed 500,000 people and exiled roughly 70,000 non-Ugandan nationals (mostly Indians) from

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Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee was born in 1849 and lived most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts. Lee was very prominent in the food services industry, having begun working as a boy at a bakery. He soon began preparing, cooking and serving food, eventually opening two successful restaurants in the Boston area. In

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Elijah Muhammad, born

Elijah Muhummad was born Elijah Poole in

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Oct

10

1897

Julia Child

Name at birth: Julia McWilliams

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10 companies bid for $2B+ West Dem infrastructure works - Stabroek News

A total of 10 companies are in the running to execute infrastructural development works at Anna Catherina, Cornelia Ida, and Edinburgh, on the West Coast of Demerara for the Central Housing & Planning Authority

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Frances Watkins Harper, writer born

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Sep

24

1825

Bullen, Roland Wentworth Boniface (1944- )

Roland Wentworth Bullen was born on Carriacou, one of the six islands that comprise the nation of Grenada. The product of a prominent family that owned several businesses, including the popular restaurant “Callaloo,” Bullen arrived in the United States in 1966. After obtaining his

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Feb

28

2003

Padmore, George (1901-1959)

A journalist, radical activist, and theoretician, George Padmore did more than perhaps any other single individual to shape the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth

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Pan-African Congress met in London

Pan-African Congress met in London. Among the leaders of the Congress were H. Sylvester Williams, a West Indian Lawyer with a London practice, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Bishop Alexander Walters.

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Jul

23

1900

Cuba

The Cuban government freed U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross, who had been in captivity for five years, on Dec. 17, 2014. Gross had been sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2011 after his effort to create a way to communicate outside of the Cuban governments control. The government cited humanitarian

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Jul

1

2015

Cuba

On October 16, 2012, the government announced that in early 2013 Cubans would no longer be required to have an exit visa when leaving the country. This new policy was promised by President Raúl Castro in 2011 as a way to answer the rising calls for change by

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President announces ‘One Guyana Commission’ - Stabroek News

According to President Irfaan Ali his government has committed to putting patriotism ahead of partisan politics and he yesterday announced the establishment of a `One Guyana Commission’ aimed at attaining

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Police reporting ‘some fatalities’ in August Town operation

A member of a joint police-military team was injured in a gun battle with alleged criminals in the Corporate Area this morning. This was confirmed by Commanding Officer for the St Andrew Central Police Division, Marlon Nesbeth. Nesbeth also...

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