Check It Out...The Walmart Juneteenth controversy | New Pittsburgh Courier

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Check It Out...The Walmart Juneteenth controversy | New Pittsburgh Courier

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In January 2021 headlines announced 20 must-have items from Walmart’s MLK day sale, and there were no complaints about the corporate exploitation of MLK day. Besides, Coretta Scott King always said MLK day wasn’t a Black holiday, it was a people’s holiday. That June, President Joe Biden … Continued

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Barthelemy Boganda, President and foun

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1832

Andrew Brimmer appointed to Fed. Reserve Bd.

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Anti-Slavery Law

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1865

Slavery Abolishment

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10

1967

Laurent Kabilia becomes new President of Zaire and renames itthe Democratic Re

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1968

President Lincoln's Promise

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1863

Death of Prince Hall

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1807

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1862

Amanda Berry Smith, born into slavery

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1837

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1854

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign

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1972

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1968

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20

1900

Freedmen's Bank closed

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Congress repeals the Enforcement Act

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1894

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1934

Executive Order 11246

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Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congre

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