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Harris highlights stakes of election in Barrett hearings - Black News Channel

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Unable to block President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Sen. Kamala Harris used three days of confirmation hearings this week to remind voters of the stakes of the Nov. 3 election and how Democratic nominee Joe Biden would govern differently if he were in the White House. The Senate Judiciary Committee's consideration of Judge Amy Coney Barrett held extra weight for Harris, a California senator who is both a committee member and Biden's running mate. Known for her tough questioning of Trump's nominees, Harris took a lower key approach and avoided […]

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(1948) Bayard Rustin, “Jim Crow Army"

By the early 1960s Bayard Rustin would emerge as a major strategist for the civil rights movement and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King. In 1948, however, he was less well known among the American population. By that point, however, most of his views were shaped and well known. In World War

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Source: Black Past

Mar

22

1948

Kenya: Waiguru Takes Impeachment Battle to Court

Embattled Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has moved to court to stop the impeachment process against

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Source: allAfrica.com

Representatives, Senators, Governors Who Else Is On The November Ballot?

Here are the other elected positions up for grabs this November that we need to be vested in as a community to move the anti-racism agenda forward.

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Source: NewsOne

Booker, Cory (1969- ) - Death

On December 20, 2012 Booker became a candidate for the United States Senate seat to succeed Senator Frank Lautenberg who had died in office on June 3, 2012.

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Source: Black Past

Jun

3

2012

Let’s rename Army bases honoring Confederate officers –

As commander of the Army of the Mississippi, Braxton Bragg (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) was outmaneuvered in several campaigns; defeated Union forces at Chickamauga but was then routed by U.S. Grant in the battle of

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Source: Florida Courier

Muhammad, Khalid Abdul (1948-2001)

Khalid Abdul Muhammad was an African-American activist, a one-time member of the Nation of Islam and national chairman of the New Black Panther Party. Muhammad was born Harold Moore Jr. on January 12, 1948, to Harold Moore Sr and Lottie B. Moore in Houston, Texas. Moore’s Aunt, Carrie Moore

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Source: Black Past

WNBA players sport 'Vote Warnock' tees in opposition of Dream co-owner : TheGrio

The women of the WNBA have emerged as powerful voices of the Black Lives Matter movement year. Since the season... View

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Source: theGrio

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

Foutanga B. Sissoko, the man who scammed a Dubai bank of $242m - and has never faced justice

Alleged to have used black magic, he got the Dubai Islamic Bank to give him over $200 million dollars, and to date, the once fabulously wealthy man has never spent a day in jail for the bank

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Filibuster in U.S. Senate killed FEPC bill

Filibuster in U.S. Senate killed FEPC bill.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

7

1946

We can’t breathe: Chamisa

OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has psyched up hard-pressed Zimbabweans to liberate themselves from the heavy Zanu PF yoke which he claims has shrunk the democratic space and deprived citizens of the much-needed

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Former National Security Adviser Susan rice Wants To be Joe Biden’s Vice President – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Christina Zhao – Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice has made her case for why she should be picked by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to serve as his running

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

Senate Extends Small Business COVID-19 Relief Program - Black News Channel

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press/ BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats drove a temporary extension of a popular subsidy program for small businesses through the GOP-controlled Senate late Tuesday, an unexpected development that came as spikes in coronavirus cases in many states are causing

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Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)

Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He is remembered as a lawyer who had one of the highest rates of success before the

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Source: Black Past

Where is Sen. Kamala Harris? | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Daryl Bell Philadelphia Tribune Staff Writer Pennsylvania is in play. The Keystone State could make the difference in the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump, who barely won Pennsylvania … Continued

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Rwanda: Tributes Pour in for Fallen Minister Ahead of Burial

Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary-General of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and former senate president, Bernard Makuza, are among several officials who have paid tribute to former Minister Laurent Nkusi, who passed away on Monday, May

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Source: allAfrica.com

Senate approves revocation of SOEs

THE Senate yesterday approved the revocation of the states of public emergency following similar action by the Lower House on Tuesday.However, Government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith said she was disappointed with the position taken by Opposition senators in the debate on the revocation of the

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Ohio Senator Breaks Down During Session Due to Racism

Source: Ohio Senate / Ohio Senate

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Source: Black America Web

(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”

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Source: Black Past

Edward Waters College [Jacksonville] (1866- )

Edward Waters College was founded in 1866 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) for the education of newly freed slaves. Located near downtown Jacksonville, Florida, the college currently sits on 23 acres and houses Centennial Hall (a nationally registered historic structure), the

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Source: Black Past

Kenya: Sifuna Threatens to Sue Savula

ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna has threatened to sue Lugari MP Ayub Savula over the politics of the Amani National Congress

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Source: allAfrica.com

Colin Powell is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. He is currently serving as an American Statesman. Powell was the first African-American to serve as the Secretary of State, which he did from 2001 to 2005 under George W. Bush. Powell is to date, the only African American to

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Source: Black History Resources

The Color Purple (musical)

The Color Purple is a musical with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell, and Allee Willis. Based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker, the show follows the journey of Celie, an African-American woman in the American South from the early to mid-20th

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Sep

9

2004

(1860) Abraham Lincoln, “Cooper Union Address”

On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a presidential candidate who had yet to win the Republican nomination, accepted an invitation to speak to the Young Mens Republican Union at Cooper Union Hall before a capacity crowd of 1,500. Lincoln used the occasion to outline his views on slavery in the

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Source: Black Past

Feb

27

1860

Stand Down: New York Declines To Enlist African Americans For Civil War In July 1861

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (07/29/2011)(readMedia)-- Early in the Civil War, less than a century after black soldiers helped defeat the British to found America; New York, other states and the federal government refused to enlist black volunteers to fight in the bloody conflict which eventually decided

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

First U.S. Senator since Reconstruction

In 1962 Edward W. Brooke, a Boston attorney, became the first African-American to be elected Attorney General for the Commonwealth. Two year later, in 1964, he became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Civil War Caterer and Senator

For more than 25 years Joshua B. Smith (1813-1879) operated a thriving catering business for private individuals and abolitionist organizations as well as for the troops during the Civil War. He represented Cambridge as a Senator in the state legislature during 1873 and 1874.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Bluefield State College (1895-- )

Bluefield State College is one of the firsthistorically black colleges (HCBUs) to become a predominantly whiteinstitution. The college was opened in1895 as the Bluefield Colored Institute after the expansion of the Morrill Actin 1890 to provide funding for African American colleges from the sale

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Source: Black Past

Harris, Warren lead in polls on who voters want as Bidens VP

Several polls are indicating that Democratic voters think Senator Kamala Harris or Senator Elizabeth Warren would be the best picks for a running mate for Joe Biden. The post Harris, Warren lead in polls on who voters want as Bidens VP appeared first on TheGrio.

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Source: theGrio

Democrats Introduce The Justice In Policing Act To Combat Police Brutality

For the past week, thousands of people have marched in the streets to stand against racial violence and police brutality in light of the recent deaths of multiple unarmed black people, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of law enforcement

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Source: The Black Chronicle

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