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Source: Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, non-advocacy public opinion polling and demographic research

Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century

In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting goals of African Creoles, African Americans, and British and American colonizationists in the fate of the Rio Pongo Valley along the West Coast of Africa. Mouser

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Source: Black Past

Anderson, Lucy Hicks [Tobias Lawson] (1886-1954)

Lucy Hicks Anderson lived as a woman in Oxnard, California, from 1920 until 1945, when it was discovered that she was biologically male. Today she might be described as a transgender person, but that term did not exist during her lifetime. Although she did not refer to herself as a transgendered

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Source: Black Past

Jesse White Announces Drive-Through Services for Vehicle Registration Renewals Beginning Tuesday | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that beginning Tuesday, May 19, seven facilities will be offering drive-through services for vehicle registration sticker transactions

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Nigeria: Buhari Signs Order to Implement Financial Autonomy for States' Legislature, Judiciary

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja signed an Executive Order for the implementation of financial autonomy for the legislature and the judiciary at the state

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Source: allAfrica.com

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Following the Union Army victory at Antietam, Maryland on September 17, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation. This document gave the states of the Confederacy until January 1, 1863 to lay down their arms and peaceably reenter the Union; if these states

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Source: Black Past

Nigeria: 33 States Defy Agreement On RoW Charges for Telecoms

Lagos — Four months after the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, met with the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) and resolved to implement the N145 per linear metre Right of Way (RoW) charges, as agreed between the governors and the federal government, 33 states

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria coronavirus: 4,641 cases, Bauchi lockdown, Madagascar syrup

May 12: Cases hit 4641, Bauchi lockdown, Madagascar donation

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

A Biography of Marcus Garvey and His Views Defined

No Marcus Garvey biography would be complete without defining the radical views that made him a threat to the status quo. The life story of the Jamaican-born activist starts well before he came to the United States following World War I, when Harlem was an exciting place for African-American

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Source: ThoughtCo

African-American History Timeline: 1850 to 1859

The 1850s were a turbulent time in American history. For African-Americans—freed and enslaved— the decade was marked by great achievements as well as setbacks. For instance, several states established personal liberty laws to counter the negative impact of the Fugitive Slave Law of

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Source: ThoughtCo

Dr. Cornelius Golightly (1917-1976): The Life of an Academic and Public Intellectual

In the following article Michigan State University professor John McClendon explores the remarkable life of little know early 20th Century black intellectual Cornelius

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Source: Black Past

New Poll Reveals COVID-19’s Impacts on African American Communities

Washington, DC

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

A. Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph was born on April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida, to a Methodist Minister, James Randolph. In 1891, the Randolph family, strong supporters of equal rights for African Americans, moved to

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Source: Black History Resources

May

16

1979

Aborigines to be counted in census

Ninety per cent of white Australians voted in todays referendum for a proposal to count Aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them. Until now their affairs have been administered solely by the states. The other proposal, to break the nexus between the

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

27

1967

African American History and Women - Timeline 1950-1959

[Previous] [Next] • Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Annie Allen) • Althea Gibson became the first African American to play at Wimbledon • Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony Award, for playing Bloody Mary in South Pacific • (Ja

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Source: ThoughtCo

Dec

21

1959

Nigeria: Oil Marketers Refusing to Cut Prices of Diesel, Others - Minister

Despite the recent commencement of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said the Federal Government will continue to intervene in determining the retail pump price of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Georgia Infirmary (1832 - )

The Georgia Infirmary was the first hospital for African Americans built in the United States. Chartered on December 24, 1832 “for the relief and protection of aged and afflicted Africans,” it was established by the Georgia General Assembly and funded by a $10,000 grant from the estate

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Source: Black Past

Dec

24

1832

Jan Hofmeyr

Jan Hofmeyr , in full Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (born July 4, 1845, Cape Town, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died Oct. 16, 1909, London, Eng.), statesman and leader of the Afrikaner Bond, a political party supporting the agrarian interests of Dutch South Africans in the Cape Colony. Hofmeyr, the

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Source: Brittanica

Jul

4

1845

Uganda: How Uganda is Tackling Mental Challenges of COVID-19 Lockdown

Focusing on the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) pillar, there are many highlights and lessons of Uganda's frontline service providers fighting coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

Census 2020: You Count, So Be in That Number | Afro

State Senator Mary Washington (Democrat from the 43rd Legislative District of Maryland) says, “Information citizens give to Census takers or what is put on forms online or mailed in is totally

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

(1948) Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights”

By 1947 the question of black civil rights in the South had become a national issue when a committee President Harry S. Truman appointed to study the issue called for legislation which among other things would to protect voting rights for Southern blacks and provide federal protection against

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Source: Black Past

Trump threatens to move RNC without assurances from governor

President Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if the state’s Democratic governor doesn’t immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August despite the ongoing COVID-19

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Trump says he's taking malaria drug to protect against virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking a malaria drug to protect against the new coronavirus, despite warnings from his own government that it should only be administered for COVID-19 in a hospital or research setting due to potentially fatal side

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

No, COVID-19 TRACE Act doesn't remove people from their homes

(Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty

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Source: theGrio

Miles College [Fairfield] (1905-- )

Miles College is a private, four-year Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Fairfield, Alabama, about six miles west of downtown Birmingham. The school was founded in 1905 by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now called Christian Methodist Episcopal Church or CME

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Source: Black Past

Oct

13

2006

Federal State Crisis

Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett defied the federal government in impassioned speech on statewide radio-television hookup, saying he would interpose the authority of the state between the University of Mississippi and federal judges who had ordered the admission of James H. Meredith. Barnett

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Sep

13

1962

(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I’m going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every

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Source: Black Past

Federal Lawsuits Allege Systemic Bank Lending Biases In COVID-19 Small Business Relief Program

While this legal process unfolds, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) estimated that as many as 95 percent Black-owned businesses stood no chance of securing a program

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Fugitive slave laws

The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. The idea of the fugitive slave law was derived from the Fugitive Slave Clause which is in the United States

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Source: BlackHistory.com

The Slaughter House Cases (1873)

? SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES.; THE BUTCHERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS v. THE CRESCENT CITY LIVE-STOCK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY.; PAUL ESTEBEN, L. RUCH, J. P. ROUEDE, W. MAYLIE, S. FIRMBERG, B. BEAUBAY, WILLIAM FAGAN, J. D. BRODERICK, N. SEIBEL, M. LANNES, J. GITZINGER, J. P. A

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Source: Black Past

Apr

14

1873

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