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Comedic icon Mantan Moreland, perhaps best known as sidekick Birmingham Brown in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1940s, also starred in several all-black horror-comedies with his straight man, F.E. Miller— including this one about a pair of men who win a house in a game of craps. The only
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Kinyumba Mutakabbir To Play First African American Superhero In Acclaimed Comic Book Franchise Black Salt, The Trailer To Be Released Black History Month
Actor Kinyumba Mutakabbir will play agent Samuel Tharpe in the action thriller Black Salt. The movie trailer is set for release in February, in honor of Black history month. Owen Ratliff created the Black Salt franchise in an effort to introduce more African Americans into leading superhero type
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Robert Williams
Robert Williams , in full Robert Franklin Williams (born February 26, 1925, Monroe, North Carolina, U.S.—died October 15, 1996, Baldwin, Michigan), American civil rights leader known for taking a militant stance against racism decades before the Black Power and black nationalist movements of the
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Oct
15
1996
Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech
To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther
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Mar
7
1965
Dymally, Mervyn (1923- )
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally, an African American politician from Los Angeles, California who has served in the California Assembly, the State Senate and as a U.S. Congressman.  He is also the first African American Lt. Governor of California.  Dymally is now once again in the California
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May
12
1923
Jackie Wilson - Lonely teardrops
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London Transit Worker Dead from Coronavirus After Man Claiming to be Infected Reportedly Spat on Her
Belly Mujinga and another worker were on duty at the Victoria transit station in central London on March 22 when they were approached by an unknown man, reported The
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Penn governer signs against Mumia
The governor of Pennsylvania, Thomas Ride, signs the death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia is charged with the early eighties slaying of a police officer.
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Oct
14
1999
Rwanda's Most Wanted Genocide Fugitive Arrested in France
Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was on Saturday arrested in Paris region, the French justice ministry and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
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Montgomery, Ala., protest
Montgomery, Ala., police broke up protest demonstration on Alabama State campus and arrested thirty-five students, a teacher and her husband.
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Mar
1
1960
First Formal Protest Against Slavery
First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting. The historic Germantown Protest denounced slavery and the slave trade.
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Feb
18
1688
Ismāʿīl Pasha
Ismāʿīl Pasha , (born Dec. 31, 1830, Cairo—died March 2, 1895, Istanbul), viceroy of Egypt under Ottoman suzerainty, 1863–79, whose administrative policies, notably the accumulation of an enormous foreign debt, were instrumental in leading to British occupation of Egypt in
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Mar
2
1895
Race riot in Cleveland
Race riot, Cleveland. Eleven persons, including three policemen, were killed and National Guard was mobilized. Riot was sparked by alleged ambush of police detail by Black radicals.
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Jul
23
1968
Gleaton, Tony (1948-2015) - Birthday
Gleaton, the youngest son of an elementary school teacher and police officer, was born into a black middle-class family on August 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Aug
4
1948
McKinney, Cynthia Ann (1955- ) - Birthday
Cynthia Ann McKinney was born on March 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Billy McKinney, who was a police officer and to a mother, Leola Christion McKinney, who was a nurse.
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Mar
17
1955
(1860) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “A Slave's Appeal”
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South Africa: Probe Into 160 Fake Social Media Accounts in Police Minister Bheki Cele's Name
Investigations into fake social media accounts that claim to represent Police Minister Bheki Cele are under
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Racial Outbreaks
Twenty-three killed in Newark rebellion. The racial uprising spread to ten of the citys twenty-three square miles. More than 1,500 persons were injured and 1,300 were arrested. Police reported 300 fires. The Newark rebellion, the worst outbreak of racial violence since Watts, spread to other New
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Jul
12
1967
Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery’s death a ‘lynching of an African American man’
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday called the shooting death of an unarmed African American jogger a “lynching” and said arrests of two accused men would not have been made if there was not video of the
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Algeria
In April 2007, about 35 people were killed and hundreds wounded when suicide bombers attacked a government building in Algiers and a police station on the outskirts of the capital. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist group struck again in
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Uganda: Soldiers, Policemen On the Spot Over Brutality, Theft
Police and army officers in Gulu District have come under the spotlight for beating up residents and taking their money and other valuables during the implementation of the presidential directives on limiting the spread of
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At South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of Steve
At South Africas Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of Steve Biko.
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Jan
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1997
Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was
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The First Black Psychic!
Shirley Ajayi was the first African American given a part on a television show as a psychic! The show lasted for about one year[actually six months] in Chicago, Illinois since the show was seasonal! Shirley started her career the minute her predictions came true! She was renamed Aura and hired to
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Sep
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1986
ABC - Jackson 5
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South Africa: Collins Khosa - Right to Human Dignity Cannot Be Compromised and Limited During Lockdown, Court Rules
On Friday, Judge Hans Fabricius handed down judgment in favour of the family of Collins Khosa who had launched an urgent application after he was beaten to death allegedly by members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) in Alexandra, Johannesburg, in
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Cyrus Tiffany
Cyrus Tiffany: African American heroism was not daunted by Captain Oliver H. Perrys opinion of African American sailors. A African American sailor, Cyrus Tiffany, was instrumental in protecting the life of Perry. When the USS Lawrence, the flagship of the American navy on Lake Erie, was sunk during
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Jul
10
1818
Swaziland Journalist Critical of King Flees, Hides in Forest Five Days
Eugene Dube, the journalist critical of King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), who was beaten by police and is facing a treason charge hid in a forest for five days as he made his
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Columbus Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church [Boston] (1838- )
The Columbus Avenue African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church in Boston, Massachusetts is most famous as the site of the July 30, 1903 Boston Riot. Although it is not the oldest African American church in the state of Massachusetts, it represents a critical moment in early 20th century
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Jul
30
1903
Braun, Carol Moseley (1947- )
Carol Moseley Braun was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 16, 1947. She attended the Chicago Public Schools and received a degree from the University of Illinois in 1969.  She earned her degree from the University of Chicago Law School in
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2004
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