Naomi Osaka wears Breonna Taylor mask to match after protest

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Restaurants in America Hard Hit by COVID-19 Face Uphill Battle to Return to Normal – Voice and Viewpoint

This is what Melissa Fleischut, president of the New York State Restaurant Association, told a reporter last

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AU, Madagascar to test herbal Covid-19 remedy

The African Union (AU) will test the controversial herbal remedy for Covid-19 from

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African-American Tennis Champion Althea Gibson Quotes

Althea Gibson, a sharecroppers daughter raised on welfare mostly in New York City, learned tennis through public clubs. She rose to become the first African-American to play at in the Forest Hills and in the Wimbledon championships, and the first African-American to win either. Althea Gibson broke

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Can Joe Biden Win? The Jury is Out

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Former Vice President Joe Biden has the most delegates going into this summer’s Democratic Convention and is the presumptive nominee for

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Bankhead, Mary Lucille Perkins (1902–1994)

Mary Lucille Perkins Bankhead, lifelong resident of Salt Lake City and member of the Genesis Group leadership, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 9, 1902. Her father, Sylvester Perkins, was a cowboy and farmer. Her mother, Martha Anne Jane Stevens Perkins Howell, was a homemaker and

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Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin was an important figure in the civil rights movement. She was born on September 5, 1939. At birth, she was adopted by C. P. Colvin and Mary Anne Colvin, who lived in a poor neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama. This was a time of intense racial divide, and Colvin was a victim of it

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Slave Revolt in Long Island

Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island (N.Y.). Seven whites killed. Two Black male slaves and an Indian slave were hanged, and a Black woman was burned alive.

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Mother Arrested In Front of Her Child for Not Wearing Mask Properly, NYPD Commissioner Claims Cops Are 'Dealing with Gang Members' In Response to Criticism

Kaleemah Rozier, 22, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon following a heated confrontation with several NYPD officers, reported

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Biden plans to pick a female running mate. Would it make a difference if she's black?

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Clardy Craven, Erma (1918-1994)

Erma Clardy Craven was an African American leader in the pro-life movement. Craven helped start various “pro-life” organizations such as African-Americans Against Abortion, the National Right to Life Committee, Black Americans for Life, National Democrats for Life, and Americans United

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US Autoworkers Return, While Possible Vaccine Shows Promise

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and

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How to Handle Disapproval of Interracial Relationships

If youre in an interracial relationship, you may be crazy about your partner but dismayed that others disapprove. Strangers stare at the two of you when you walk hand-in-hand down the street. Friends ask questions about “those people” and family members say they fear for your future

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Radical reforms to boost maize, agricultural sector

The government has embarked on reforms to boost the production of maize, the country’s staple

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Munya allows 2 months of low-duty Mexico maize import

Munya now allows 2 months of low-duty Mexico maize import

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The Color Purple

For the color, see

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Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson was a tennis player and later professional golfer who became the first African American woman to cross the racial barrier and compete professionally in both sports. She was born on August 25, 1927 in South Carolina. Her family was under severe financial duress due to the Great

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Kenya: Two Medics Among Several Kenyans Stranded in India

Two Kenyan doctor, who had travelled to India to visit their family, are stranded after they were forced to give up their seats to the sick on a Kenya Airways flight last

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Serena Williams

Serena Williams completed a second “Serena Slam” by winning the 2014 U.S. Open and the 2015 Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. She came close to winning the actual Grand Slam in 2015, but she lost to Roberta Vinci in the semi-finals of the U.S. Open… The only women ever to win

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Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser's Civil War Espionage

In the following account historian and novelist Lois Leveen describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, the account of a black woman who served as a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil

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The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show (often shortened to Bernie Mac in syndication) is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001, to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sisters three kids: Jordan, Vanessa, and

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African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical

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“The Yellow Rose of Texas”: The Ironic Origins of a Popular Song

While many Americans are familiar with the song, The Yellow Rose of Texas, few know the story of Emily West, the African American woman who was the inspiration for its creation. In the excerpt below from a longer article that first appeared in 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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US autoworkers return, while possible vaccine shows promise

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and

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Covid-19: South Sudan registers two new deaths

South Sudan has registered two new coronavirus deaths, just a day after recording its first virus related

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Virus 'eminently capable' of spreading through speech

Microdroplets generated by speech can remain suspended in the air in an enclosed space for more than ten minutes, a study published Wednesday showed, underscoring their likely role in spreading

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Patricia Bath

Born: 11/4/1942 Manhattan, New YorkAmerican ophthalmologist, inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to Bath, no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed a post-graduate training program in

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Cameroon: Security Arrests People Without Masks as COVID-19 Cases Increase

Police in Cameroon have detained several hundred people for not wearing face masks in public, as COVID-19 cases in the central African state continue to

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Black Marriage: Four Myths Busted by the Facts

Do black people get married? That question has been asked in one form or another in a series of news reports about the black marriage “crisis.” On the surface, such stories seem to be concerned about black women in search of love, but these media reports have largely served to fuel

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Hillary, Barbara (1931- )

Barbara Hillary is the first African American woman on record to reach both the North and South Poles. Born in New York City, New York on June 12, 1931 to Viola Jones Hillary and raised in Harlem, Hillary attended the New School University in New York, N.Y. where she earned both her Bachelor of

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