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COVID-19 Testing Sites Map

The City of Boston has partnered with various neighborhood health centers to provide access to COVID-19 Testing throughout the city. Please visit this link and refresh your page for the most up-to-date

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Actor, Playwright, Producer and Drama Teacher

For more than 40 years Vernon F. Blackman was a significant force in the theater. Beginning his stage career with the Little Theater Players, he founded the People's Theater Players, he founded the People's Theater Company of Cambridge and the Theater Company of Boston. From the 1950s until his

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Veteran School Committeman

In 1977 John O'Bryant was elected to Boston School Committee, becoming the first African-American elected to serve on the Committee in the 20th century. In 1989 he was elected to his seventh two-year term, and in 1991 he became president of the body for the second time.

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#ACCESS901: You Oughta Know – Bijoux

Earlier in 2020, Bijoux released the single, “Dit Moi,” which will be followed by the release of the full EP once the novel coronavirus decides to let us be great

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(1894) William Saunders Scarborough, “The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question,”

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Woman Arrested For Stalking Brandy Norwood, Singer Files For Restraining Order

Sources who claim to have knowledge of the situation have said that the R&B singer does not know the suspect, who has shown up to her Los Angeles home and several other

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Refused to Fight Against the U.S.

Richard Seavers, a Black Boston seaman who entered the British navy prior to the outbreak of the War of 1812, refused to fight against the United States and was therefore sentenced to England's Dartmoor Prison.

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Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972)

Described by those who knew her as exotic, flamboyant, and colorful, Zoë Dusanne, was an art dealer and collector who opened Seattle’s first professional modern-art gallery, the Zoë Dusanne Gallery, in 1950 and who worked tirelessly to both introduce modern art to a northwest audience and to

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Boston To Remove A Copy Of Thomas Ball's 1876 Emancipation Memorial

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Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)

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Death of Eric Garner

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in what has been described as a chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him. The New York City Medical Examiners Office attributed Garners death to

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Opening Doors of Opportunity

Several organizations have strong track records of service to the African-American community. Three such organizations have worked for more than 20 years to open doors of opportunity for Blacks: the Contractors Association of Boston (CAB); the Black Patrolmen's Association, currently known as

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, formerly president of Morehouse College of Medicine, was appointed by President George Bush in 1989 as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Dr. Sullivan graduated from Boston University's School of Medicine and spent the early years of his career as a medical

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Price, Florence Beatrice Smith (1887-1953)

Florence Beatrice Smith, the first black woman composer to garner an international reputation, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1887, to James H. Smith, a dentist, and Florence Gulliver Smith, a former school teacher and private lesson piano teacher who also managed several local

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Singer H.E.R. Invests in Black-Owned Vegan Cookie Company Co-signed by Jay-Z

A year after Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter invested in Partake Foods, a Black-owned vegan cookie company, the healthy snack brand has landed another superstar

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Ronald D. McCray

Ronald D. McCray served as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Nike, Inc. from August 2007 until May 2009. He served as Senior Vice President Law and Government Affairs of Kimberly-Clark Corporation from August 2003 until August 2007 and as its Chief Compliance Officer from November

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Teyana Taylor Remembers The Night She Got Pregnant: “It Was Going Down, I Felt It”

The singer confessed that it was less finding out she was pregnant and more confirming what she already knew to be true following a wild night of New Year’s Eve

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Taylor, Ruth Carol (1931- )

Journalist and nurse Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African American airline flight attendant in the United States when she joined Mohawk Airlines in 1958. While she is most commonly known for her achievement in the airline industry, she spent much of her career as an activist for minority and

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1958

Pain in Your Stomach: What it Could Really Be! | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

One of the possibilities of this issue of blood and pain could be ulcerative

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The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

Combahee River Collective

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A Brief History of the San Diego NAACP, 1917-2007

In 1917, realizing the hunger for social justice among the one thousand African American residents of San Diego, W. E. B. DuBois traveled from Los Angeles to San Diego as part of his western states tour on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Having

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Boxing Legend: Harry "The Black Panther" Wills Pt. II

In part one of our entry on Harry “The Black Panther” Wills we went into his rivalry against “The Boston Bonecrusher” Sam Langford between 1914 and

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Source: Black Then

Income tax, corporate tax and VAT unlikely to rise, despite crisis

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Nipsey Hussle’s Family And Crip Gang Have Yet To Agree On “Marathon” Trademark

The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Los Angeles Lakers by the final score of 119-98 at Staples Center in Los Angeles

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Walsh warns against second COVID surge

Mayor Walsh warned Boston residents that COVID-19 will likely have a second surge and encouraged them to take precautions as the city

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Shaw, Anna Howard

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847–1919, American woman-suffrage leader, b. England. She emigrated (1851) to the United States in early childhood and grew up on a farm in Michigan. She received a degree in theology (1878) and one in medicine (1885) from Boston Univ. Although the Methodist Episcopal Church

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Diana Ross Was Warned That “I’m Coming Out” Would Ruin Her Career

And while Ross is not a part of the community—as far as we know—as a heterosexual, cisgender Black woman she still faced some backlash for recording and eventually releasing the

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FKA Twigs Takes Quarantine Workout To New Level By Pole Dancing In Her Livingroom

FKA Twigs has been practicing her pole dancing skills for the past few years, and her moves are

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Gerrymandering - Definition and Examples in Politics

Gerrymandering is the act of drawing of congressional, state legislative or other political boundaries to favor a political party or one particular candidate for elected office. The purpose of gerrymandering is to grant one party power over another by creating districts that hold dense

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Black Characters Should Be Played By Black People: Jenny Slate And Kristen Bell Step Down From Voicing Black Girls On Their Respective Series

And that’s what actresses Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have done, stepping down from their voice over work for animated characters of

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