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California Passes Bill Allowing 5 Days of Leave After Reproductive Loss
🚨 NEW LAW ALERT 🚨 Starting Jan. 1, 2024, employees in California can take up to five days off without job repercussions following a reproductive loss event. This includes miscarriage, stillbirth, and failed adoption or surrogacy. Read more about this groundbreaking bill and its impact on
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(1850) Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen, “I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law”
A month after the infamous Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress, Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872), a fugitive slave from Tennessee, persuaded his adopted hometown, Syracuse, New York, to declare that city a refuge for liberated slaves. On October 4, 1850, the people of Syracuse filled
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Source: Black Past
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4
1850
Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the funk and soul band the Commodores and then launched a solo career in 1982. He also co-wrote the 1985 charity single We Are the World with Michael
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Source: ThoughtCo
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20
1949
NWI Election Coverage to broadcast on Lakeshore Public Media
Lakeshore Public Media readies for its 2023 Northwest Indiana election night coverage set to broadcast live on 89.1FM on Tuesday, November 7 from 7-9 p.m. The audio coverage can also be streamed online at LakeshorePublicMedia.org, and a live video stream will be available on
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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group
Haiti
Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. About the size of Maryland, Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country marked by great valleys, extensive plateaus, and small
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DPNR announces schedule for St. Croix archery field – Virgin Islands Free Press
FREDERIKSTED — The Isaac Gateword James Park and Archery Field in Estate La Grange is open to the community on Saturdays. DPNR said the field is open from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for...
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Kingston, Jamaica (1692-- )
Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, was founded in July 1692 when an earthquake destroyed the nearby city of Port Royal. The most recent census puts its population at 937,700. Today Kingston is the center of trade, manufacturing, and shipping for the entire nation of
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27
2010
George Carruthers
Often, greatness is determined by the times in which one finds oneself. For George Carruthers, growing up in the earliest stages of the space race, he like most other boys was fascinated with space travel. Unlike most of those boys, he would ultimately go on to make some of the greatest
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26
2012
Cousin, Ertharin (1957– )
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Task force may have acted hastily in denying request for Region Nine lockdown
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My solutions to ending school fights - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE EDITOR: Anticipating the start of the next academic term, school fights will inevitably return. Though some of them will not be paraded on social media, fights also happen in the schools which people describe as “prestige,” so there is no need to separate the violence between “prestige” and
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African-Americans in Astronomy and Space
Black History Month began as Negro History Week first celebrated in 1926. Later evolving into Black History Month, it was the brainchild of Dr. Carter Woodson. Until that time, very little emphasis was placed on the study of African-American
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St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda (1632- )
St. Johns (population 22,342) is the capital of the Eastern Caribbean twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua, the largest of the English-speaking Leeward Islands, covers 108 square miles. Barbuda, a flat coral island with an area of only 68 square miles, lies approximately 30 miles
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Powerful quake shakes Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — A powerful earthquake centred near the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco killed at least four people, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the
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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816- )
Emanuel A.M.E. Church is the oldest black A.M.E. Church in the South and contains the oldest black congregation south of Baltimore, Maryland.  The church’s early roots emerged out of slavery in a shared legacy with Charleston (South Carolina) Methodist Episcopal Church in 1791. Due to disputes over
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17
2015
Haiti
The beleaguered country was dealt a catastrophic blow in January 2010 when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the countrys capital. It was regions worst earthquake in 200 years. The quake leveled many sections of the city, destroying government
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7
2010
Jury pool for possible Kartel retrial tainted by 'Sir P', other vloggers, claims Shawn Storm’s sister
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Oregon man faces federal charges over fentanyl overdose death
(The Center Square) - A Portland, Oregon, man faces federal charges for distributing counterfeit Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a Portland teenager. Nasir Overton, 20, has been charged by criminal complaint with one count of conspiring to distribute and pos
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Clarence's Hollywood
Katherine Stockett’s excellent novel, The Help, is about the African American maids who worked in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Stockett reflects the brutal realties of 20th Century slavery being carried out in pretentious southern white households that continued from
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12
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Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker was one of the first well known African American scientists and mathematicians. He was born on November 9, 1731 to an ex slave named Robert, and Mary Banneky, the daughter of an Englishwoman and a free African slave. He grew up on his parents farm along with three of his sisters
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9
1806
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