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Group Begins Work to Revitalize Africatown Community - Los Angeles Sentinel
 Longtime residents of the Mobile community called ``Africatown USA'' recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated
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September 20: Actress and director, Regina King, won an Emmy Award for her role in the series the Watchmen, 2020 - Los Angeles Sentinel
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BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Daisy Bates, Civil Rights Activist, Newspaper Publisher, Little Rock Nine Organizer
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) This is Daisy Bates. President of the NAACP Arkansas chapter during the civil rights movement and co-publisher of The Arkansas…
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Academy Award Winners Regina King and John Ridley Re-Team to Make Shirley Chisholm Biopic
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Emmy Nominations Have Historic Number of Black and Brown Nominees. | Chicago Defender
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BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Hazel M. Johnson, the “Mother of Environmental Justice”
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) This is Hazel M. Johnson. A working-class woman and mother of seven who lived in the Chicago housing project Altgeld Gardens for most of her adult life. …
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MUSIC MONDAY: “Excursions” – A Jazz Rap Collection (LISTEN)
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Serena Williams Donates Proceeds from Unstoppable Jewelry Collection to Relief Fund for Black-Owned Small Businesses
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‘Howardites Turned Into Husband and Wife’: Charmaine Walker Posts Throwback Photo of Herself with Neek Bey at Their Alma Mater, Fans Cheer Their HBCU Love
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September 28: Venus and Serena Williams won the Women's doubles tennis Olympic Gold Medal in Sidney, Australia, 2000 - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Eddie Murphy to be Inducted into NAACP Hall of Fame - Voice and Viewpoint
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Chido Nwokocha —a Nigerian on the Move in Tyler Perry’s ‘Sistas’ on BET — has the “IT” Factor | The Michigan Chronicle
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#AAMAM: Celebrating New Orleans Funk and Soul (LISTEN)
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Artist Anthony Olbunmi Akinbola’s “Magic City” Installation at John Michael Kohler Arts Center Opens Online Feb. 19
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Wilmington Highlights Black Art with Return of Exhibition - Los Angeles Sentinel
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