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We must be careful not to imagine that bringing down monuments will in itself bring healing or change history.
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Entrepreneur of 35 Years Releases New Book, "Black Financial Literacy & Wealth Building Bible"
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Poindexter, James (1819-1907)
James Poindexter clergyman, abolitionist, politician, and civil rights activist, was born in Richmond Virginia in 1819. He attended school in Richmond until he was about sixteen when he started to apprentice as a barber. In 1837 Poindexter married Adelia Atkinson and the coupled moved to
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Source: Black Past
Feb
7
1907
Langston, John Mercer (1829-1897)
John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia in 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney.  Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles, Langston took his surname from his mother, Lucy
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Source: Black Past
Nov
15
1897
Bradley, Tom (1917-1998)
Thomas J. “Tom” Bradley, five-term Mayor of Los Angeles and the first major black candidate for Governor of California, was born in Calvert, Texas, on December 29, 1917, the son of Lee Thomas Bradley, a railroad porter, and Crenner Bradley, a maid.  He was the grandson of former
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Source: Black Past
Sep
30
1998
Too many African American children are born in shackles
Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist—often created by red-lining— worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job
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Tourist pretesting back on agenda - Tufton admits island’s COVID-19 response buckling under pressure
The Jamaican Government is reconsidering the imposition of COVID-19 pretesting of arriving tourists as the coronavirus response architecture at the island’s airports has been overwhelmed by passenger traffic, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton admitted on
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Afrocentrism
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — "AM I BLACK ENOUGH?": THE FALLOUT OVER JOE BIDEN'S COMMENTS TO CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD
During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. (1821- )
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) is the oldest continuously operating black church in the District of Columbia.  Metropolitan AME is also designated by the AME Church (the black denomination founded in 1787 by Richard Allen) as the National Cathedral of African
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Jan
9
1894
The Black Church Faces an Atypical Crisis
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Religion in Black America
Religion in Black America refers to the religious and spiritual practices of blacks and people of African descent in the United States. Historians generally agree that the religious life of Black Americans forms the foundation of their community life.[1] Before 1775 there was scattered evidence of
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — #SaveLocalJournalism WEEK 3: THE #BLACKPRESSMATTERS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY: Accessing COVID-19 Testing & Availability
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The essential church
Can we imagine the president of the United States telling Americans to go to church during this pandemic while his leadership on every accord is not the kind of thinking people would
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Barack Obama to deliver special message at Stonewall Day virtual event
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Malawi Supreme Court breaks rank with peers in Southern Africa
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We Will Breathe!
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ASK DR. KEVIN: An Unfamiliar, Rare Disease Associated with Heart Failure in African Americans
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These Are the Joe Biden Rallies.
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Pastors reach across racial divide for common ground, conciliation
The Rev. Daniel Johnson, associate pastor of Congregational Formation and Missions at Second Baptist Church in East Memphis, saw an opportunity to reach outside the church walls and make new friends on the other side of
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Mail-in Deluge Tests Elections in Kentucky, New York
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Raila Odinga
Raila Odinga , in full Raila Amolo Odinga (born January 7, 1945, Maseno, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Kenya (2008–13) following the contentious presidential election of December
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First Black Daily Newspaper In Modern Times
Founded on this day by William A. Scott, III, the Atlanta Daily World was the first Black daily newspaper in modern times.
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Aug
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1928
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Former United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions Failed His Biggest Test.
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A call to remove J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the FBI headquarters
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African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1896)
The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1896) refers to the post-Civil War reform movements in the United States aimed at eliminating racial discrimination against African Americans, improving educational and employment opportunities, and establishing electoral power. This period between
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Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey was a free slave born in St. Thomas, which at that time was a colony of Denmark. His birth name was Telemaque and he was born in 1767. He was purchased by a slave merchant named Joseph Vesey when he was 14 years old. Vesey sold his slave to a farmer in St. Domingue, but he was later
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Jul
14
1822
LIVESTREAM REPLAY — #SaveLocalJournalism Week #4: THE VOICE OF BLACK AMERICA
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