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Wanted NA murder suspect caught at Mahdia
One day after the police issued a wanted bulletin for Donald Sheriff for questioning in relation to the murder of New Amsterdam, Berbice resident Keron Nicholson, he was arrested in
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Jagdeo calls on GECOM to push for Carter Center’s return
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to request the return of international observers for the ongoing recount of votes from the March 2 polls, while saying that the three-member CARICOM team that has
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by a deranged Black woman while he was autographing books in a Harlem department store. Woman was placed under mental observation.
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20
1958
Consumer advocate lashes Gov’t over bad gas payout
THE HEAD of one local consumer protection group believes consumers should feel offended by the offer of a $24.5-million compensation package for those who suffered from the purchase of contaminated gas in
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News-14052012 | The Jackson Advocate
Copyright 2020 By The Jackson Advocate Newspaper, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No duplication of the materials contained herein is permitted without the express written permission from the publisher.
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Fraudsters benefit Hundreds of millions in fraudulent, jobless benefits paid
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — Impostors have used the stolen information of tens of thousands of people in the state to fraudulently receive hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits, the head of Washington's Employment Security Department said
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late
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Source: Brittanica
Sep
15
1977
Zimbabwe: Govt Orders Full-Scale Probe Into MDC Trio's Case
A full-scale investigation is now in progress over the alleged abduction of three MDC Alliance members and the public should await the results, which will be made public, before coming up with unsubstantiated conclusions, the Government said
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Mandeville residents capture alleged thief
THE Manchester police are hailing as brave the actions of residents of Mandeville in the parish who last Sunday apprehended a man suspected of at least two incidents of shopbreaking and larceny in the parish
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Tanzania: Kenya Shuts Borders With Tanzania, Somalia Over COVID-19
Kenya has shut its borders with Somalia and Tanzania as the country strives to stem further spread of the
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Ghana: 30 Health Workers in Ashanti Region Contract COVID-19 - -GHS
Kumasi — Thirty health workers in the Ashanti region have contracted the COVID-19 disease, according to the Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service's updated report, as at May
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Ida B. Wells and Her Anti-Lynching Campaign
African-American journalist Ida B. Wells went to heroic lengths in the late 1890s to document the horrifying practice of lynching blacks. Her groundbreaking work, which included collecting statistics in a practice that today is called data journalism, established that the lawless killing of blacks
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Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly , pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane, also spelled Cochran (born May 5, 1864, Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 1922, New York, New York), American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world
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Murphy, John Henry, Sr. (1840-1922)
Born on December 25, 1840, in Baltimore, Maryland, John Henry Murphy grew up as a slave and freed by the Emancipation Act of 1863. He enlisted in the military at age 24, during the Civil War and quickly progressed to the rank of Sergeant by the end of the conflict.  When he returned home to
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Source: Black Past
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1840
News-14052016 | The Jackson Advocate
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Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the
Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the National Defense Program met with President Roosevelt. National Newspaper Publishers Association founded. Spingarn Medal presented to Dr. Louis T. Wright for his civil rights leadership and his contributions as a surgeon.
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1940
First Female Journalist
Lillian Lewis was the first African-American woman journalist in Boston. In the 1880s, she wrote for The Advocate, a Black community newspaper. She then went toThe Boston Herald, writing under the name of Bert Islew, scrambling the letters of her last name to disguise the fact that she was
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COVID Crisis: The Black Press is Doing What It Does – On Budgets Spread Thin – Voice and Viewpoint
Recognizing that Blacks lacked access to public print media, the Rev. Samuel Cornish and the Rev. John B. Russworm bonded and emerged from within that assembly with a plan: To produce the nation’s first Black newspaper titled The
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Liberator
From 1832 to 1865 the Liberator was a powerful anti-slavery and 'underground' newspaper for Black citizens. Founded and published by the fiery white abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, the paper had Black reporters and columnists.
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years
David Bryant Fulton: Black Polemicist and Author
In 1887, Fulton relocated to New York where he joined  the Pullman Palace Car Company as a porter in
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Caldwell, Harrison L. (1909-1964)
Harrison Laverne Caldwell, the first African American principal in the Seattle Public Schools District, was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1909. Very little is known about his personal life. By the time of his death, he had become one of the most important educational leaders in the states of Kansas and
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Source: Black Past
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3
1964
Nigeria: COVID-19 - Online Polls Will Not Determine Lagos Decision On Another Lockdown - Official
The Lagos State Government says its final decision on the possibility of another lockdown will not be based solely on the outcome of the online public polls on the
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FedEx Accused Of Firing Black Driver Who Recorded Encounter With Racist Customer
The driver took to Twitter and said he was defiantly posting the video he recorded with an angry customer despite FedEx demanding it get taken
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Activist Floyd H. McKissick born
In Asheville, North Carolina, civil rights activist Floyd H. McKissick was born. A lawyer, newspaper columnist and business executive, McKissick attended Morehouse College, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina Central University.
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Mar
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1922
National Negro Convention Movement
In the early months of 1830, a young freed man from Baltimore named Hezekiel Grice was not satisfied with life in the North because of the hopelessness of contending against oppression in the United
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Sep
15
1830
La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)
The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual. Articles were written in both French, for the majority of African Americans in Louisiana, and English, in order
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Source: Black Past
Uganda: Education Discusses Strategy On School Reopening
The Ministry of Education was yesterday locked in a meeting to decide how schools will partially reopen two weeks from today after President Museveni allowed candidates to
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William H. Wilson (? --- ?)
William H. Wilson established The Northwest Enterprise, a Seattle, Washington weekly newspaper for the African American community, in 1920 and continued to be its editor until 1935.  He also served as a board member of Seattles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
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4
1952
Through the darkness we see a glimmer of light on the far northwest side
The New 9th District, its residents and the city received a welcome and bright ray of light and good news yesterday when a judge ruled that the demolition of the former Northridge Mall should proceed
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AG says recount illegal but coalition maintains it will abide by results
The incumbent APNU+ AFC coalition yesterday both challenged the legality of the ongoing national recount of votes from the March 2 elections and also committed to abiding by its
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