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Cornel West
Media personality Cornel West is an African American Studies scholar and socialist critic of the white patriarchy that is the United States of America. West grew up in Sacramento and graduated from Harvard in 1973. He then embarked on an academic career in the humanities, teaching ethics, religion
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Arrests In DC As Activists Take To The Streets To Support Minneapolis Protesters | Afro
Multiple arrests occurred as hundreds of activists marched throughout Washington D.C. for George Floyd and his supporters Friday
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Chicago Mayor: City Won’t Be Ready for Outdoor Dining on May 29 | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Despite Illinois allowing restaurants to reopen for outdoor seating in phase three of its reopening plan, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said city residents shouldn’t expect that to happen this
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BLACK NAMED CHIEF SWEEPER
COLUMBUS, OHIO,--a BLACK MAN, Mr. Everette Spurlock, has been named superintendent of this citys street cleaning department. The negroe community is overjoyed that the city has finally recognized the dependability of its colored
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Mar
0
1910
Plymouth Hospital - 1st Picture
Plymouth Hospital and Nurses' Training School, founded and operated by Dr. Cornelius Garland, a Black doctor, from 1908 to 1928, contributed to the health care needs of Blacks and to Black community development during the first quarter of the 1900s. The hospital building still stands on East
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years
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Street Sweeper invented
C.B. Brook invented the street sweeper.
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Jan
0
1896
Investor or worker? America's unequal reality
The ugly truth, however, is that unless you’re part of the wealthy elite who benefits from the success of the markets, this rally will have little to no bearing on the day-to-day economic reality for you – and the media would do well to remember
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John Cheatham: One of Minneapolis’ First African-American Firefighters
John Cheatham: One of Minneapolis’ First African-American Firefighters
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Two more Corentyne men charged with string of armed robberies
Two more men were yesterday charged with seven armed robberies committed on Corentyne residents, making it a total of six persons that have been charged so
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GREENE
…Visitation was held: Tuesday, June 3, 2020; 10:00 a.m. @ Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E. 79th Street, Chicago, IL; Interment: Lincoln Cemetery; Arrangements Entrusted To:  Taylor Funeral Home, 63 East 79th. Street, Chicago, IL  60619: (773) 488.7300 cbtaylorfuneralhome.com.
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Tunisia
In December 2010, a college graduate who worked as a street vendor set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid to protest unemployment, corruption and the continued police state. A spate of other protests followed and spread throughout the country. As many as 10,000 people took to the streets of
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Jan
14
2011
Philip Downing
In 1891, anyone interested in mailing a letter would have to make the long trip to the post office. Philip B. Downing designed a metal box with four legs which he patented on October 27, 1891. He called his device a street letter box and it is the predecessor of
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Oct
27
1891
William E. Kennard
William E. Kennard served as United States Ambassador to the European Union from 2009 to 2013. In this role, Kennard worked to promote transatlantic trade and investment and to eliminate regulatory barriers to commerce. Currently, Kennard is Chairman and Co-Founder of Velocitas Partners, LLC, an
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Early Entrepreneur
By 1855 J. H. Lewis, one of the best known clothiers of the period, developed a thriving business making fashionable 'bell trouser' in a large shop on Washington Street in Boston's downtown business district.
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years
Charles Brooks
Charles Brooks designed the street sweeper and patented it on March 17, 1896. Prior to his invention, streets were cleaned manually by workers picking up trash by hand or sweeping it with brooms. Brooks’ invention was made of a truck with a series of broom-like brushes attached which pushed trashed
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Mar
17
1896
JACKSON
Memorial Services will be held: Friday, June 5, 2020; 11:00 p.m. -12:00 p.m. @ Taylor Funeral Home Lt., 63 E. 79th St., Chicago, IL: Cremation: Arrangements Entrusted To:  Taylor Funeral Home, 63 East 79th. Street, Chicago, IL  60619: (773) 488.7300 cbtaylorfuneralhome.com.
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Baldwin, James (1924-1987)
James Arthur Baldwin, fiction writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet, was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York during the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1942, he began his formal career as a writer.  Baldwin was inspired by Richard
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Aug
2
1924
King, B. B.
King, B. B., 1925–2015, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, began playing the guitar at 12, was a street corner performer as a teenager, and as a young man worked as a singing, guitar-playing
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US sees 1,260 coronavirus deaths in a day
The United States recorded a further 1,260 deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, bringing its total to 95,921 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins
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National Federation of Afro-American Women
The National Federation of Afro-American Women was founded at Boston's Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1895. The following year it united with the Washington National League to form the National Association of Colored Women.
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years
Volkswagen Admits Car Ad Racist, Apologizes
Volkswagen Admits Car Ad Racist, (Reuters) – Volkswagen withdrew on Wednesday an advert posted on its official Instagram page for its Golf cars that it admitted was racist and insulting, saying it would investigate how it came about and draw
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Reginald F. Lewis
Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first Black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holding Inc. With TLCs leverage
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Dec
7
1942
(1963) John F. Kennedy, “We Face A Moral Crisis: The Civil Rights Message to Congress, 1963”
On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent his civil right message to Congress urging it to pass a civil rights act.  The message was immediately prompted by the action of Governor George Wallace of Alabama in physically blocking the entrance of two African American students whom a federal
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Jun
11
1963
Early Boston Latin Graduates
Parker Bailey (Class of 1877) and Clement Morgan (Class of 1886) were the first Black graduates of the Boston Latin School. Both went on to Harvard College. Bailey pursued a lifetime of teaching at the M Street High School in Washington, D.C., Morgan graduated from Harvard Law School and served as
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years
State of Emergency and curfew declared in LA amidst ongoing protests
State of Emergency and curfew declared in LA amidst ongoing protests
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GWYNN
Wake will be  held: Saturday, June 6,  2020; 10:00 a.m. @ Taylor Funeral Home Ltd.,63 E. 79th Street, Chicago,  IL.; Interment: Washington Memorial Gardens; Arrangements Entrusted To:  Taylor Funeral Home, 63 East 79th. Street, Chicago, IL  60619: (773) 488.7300 cbtaylorfuneralhome.com.
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Source: Chicago Defender
Downtown Chaos Leads To Neighborhood Destruction for Many Small Business Owners.
The curfew comes on the heels of violent protest erupting across the city in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officers on May
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Church Bombing
Four Black girls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
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Sep
15
1963
100 Greatest Rap Songs: 100-91
The best hip-hop songs of all time are those songs that touch our soul. They make us smile, laugh, cry, think, move and shake what our mama (or papa) gave
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Black Congresswoman Gets Pepper Sprayed During George Floyd Protest
Nationwide — Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, a congresswoman from Ohio, was reportedly pepper-sprayed while trying to mediate between police officers and protesters in
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