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Crush Global Is Getting Black Girls On The Road During The Pandemic

Kristin Braswell has been working to provide safe options for those who aren’t ready to risk it all. The journalist-turned-entrepreneur founded her own agency, Crush Global, to provide authentic travel experiences with the help of local guides and Black Businesses. And now she's added road trips to the mix.

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Third national Black convention met

Third national Black convention met in Philadelphia with twenty-nine delegates from eight states. Henry Sipkins of New York was elected president.

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Jun

4

1832

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and former

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Jan

4

1958

NAACP incorporated in New York

NAACP incorporated in New York.

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Jun

20

1911

American troops drove Spanish forces from Cuba

American troops, including Tenth Cavalry, drove Spanish forces from entrenched positions at La Guasimas, Cuba.

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Jun

24

1898

Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam

Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, called for creation of a Black state in America at a New York meeting.

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Jul

31

1960

James Theodore Holly

James Theodore Holly, a Black American who emigrated to Haiti in 1861, elected bishop of Haiti. He was consecrated in a ceremony at New Yorks Grace Church on November 8.

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Nov

3

1874

A handful of battleground races in Texas remain unsettled days after Election Day | Dallas Weekly

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.

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Colonies give Statutory Recognition

Massachusetts became the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery. Other colonies followed: Connecticut 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina. 1715; Georgia, 1750.

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Dec

1

1641

Jupiter Hammon, 1st Black poet

Jupiter Hammon, New York slave who was probably the first Black poet, published An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries.

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Dec

25

1760

One of the greatest and most successful pirates of the Carribean was the son of a Black slave named Diego Gullo. He learned his trade from Sir Franics Drake, the hero of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Headquartered on a small island off the coast of Cuba, her terrorized European shipping.

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Jan

0

1588

Activist Faye Wattleton

Faye Wattleton, a rgeistered nurse and New York activist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Wattleton served as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992.

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Jul

8

1943

Dancer Martha Graham born

Birthday in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania of dancer Martha Gaham, considered a pioneer in Afro-Haitian dance.

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May

11

1854

School established

The Cheyney State Training School was established in Pennsylvania.

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Dec

25

1837

Jacques Dominique Wilkins, 39, basketball player, born Paris, France, Jan 12, 1960

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Jan

12

1960

A Chicago Picketing

Dont Buy Where You Cant Work campaign began in Chicago with picketing of Chain stores on South Side, fall. The campaign spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and continued throughout the Depression.

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Dec

30

1929

British sign treaty with Jamaican Maroons

The British are forced to sign a peace treaty with Maroons, escaped slave societies, in Jamaica.

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Mar

1

1739

Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson

Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York

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Jul

2

1961

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

North Africa: Morocco Calls for Unified Approach to Address Common Challenges of Arab and EU Countries

[MAP] Rabat -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, on Monday called for the development of a multidimensional and unified approach to address the common challenges of Arab countries and the European Union (EU).

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Paul Bustill Robeson

Paul Bustill Robeson was born in

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Apr

9

1898

Entertainer and singer, Josephine Baker, makes her Paris debut, 1925

Entertainer and singer, Josephine Baker, makes her Paris debut, 1925

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Jul

19

1925

First Black Grandmaster

Maurice Ashley, an immigrant from Jamaica, was 14 and living in Brooklyn, when he feel in love with the game of chess after reading a book about Paul Morphy, a 19th-century Louisianian who was Americas first great chess

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Mar

17

1999

Black Men and Women Elected To Congress

A record number of Black congressmen and the first Black woman representative were elected to Congress. The nine Black congressmen and Sen. Edward W. Brooke topped the previous high of eight in the Forty-fourth Congress of 1875-77. The first Black woman representative, Shirley Chisholm of the

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Nov

5

1968

Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie

Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie comes to Kingston Jamaica.

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Apr

21

1966

Egypt: Tayyeb - Terrorism 'Globally Created'

[Egypt Online] Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb said on Sunday that terrorism is globally created and the Arab world is the biggest arena for terror crimes.

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the Bronze Muse

On this day, the Bronze Muse died in

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Feb

22

1911

First International Conference

First international conference of Black writes and artists met at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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Sep

19

1956

US ambassador to Jamaica hospitalised

United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has been hospitalised. The nature of his illness has not been disclosed. However, in a terse statement, the US Embassy in Kingston said Tapia will be flown to the United States for medical treatment...

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Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm, a New York Democrat, is the 1st African American woman elected to Congress.

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Nov

5

1974

New York Draft Riots

On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment

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Jul

13

1863

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