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Born on this day in Tampa, Florida, Dwight Gooden went on to become the youngest player selected as the National League Rookie of the Year in 1984, the youngest to be chosen for the All-Star Game, and the youngest to win the Cy Young Award.
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Nov
16
1964
Colin Kaepernick Has Been Nominated for the NFL Hall of Fame – Free Press of Jacksonville
by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton September 8, 2020 -  After leading the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2013, some football fans say that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick belongs in the NFL Hall of Fame. [...]
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Does Biden’s vice president have to be a Black woman?
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the
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Abandoned Baby Becomes Cell Phone Tech Mogul | Afro
Rescued at two days old by retirement-age couple Nathan and Edith Figgers, Freddie was raised as one of their
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Homeless ‘Streets Team’ Starts Trash Clean-up in North Richmond
On Tuesday, June 16,  the Shields Reid Neighborhood Council, Davis Chapel CME Church and Robert Rogers of Supervisor John Gioia’s office invited a homeless “Streets Team” to begin trash cleanup and organizing of the homeless encampment in North
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At 14, Lena Richard broke racial barriers with her culinary empire during Jim Crow
Lena Richard, a revered African-American chef, broke racial and economic barriers to build a culinary empire in New Orleans uring the Jim Crow era She became the first Black woman to host her own television cooking show titled “Lena Richard’s New Orleans Cook
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Marion Motley
Marion Motley , (born June 5, 1920, Leesburg, Georgia, U.S.—died June 27, 1999, Cleveland, Ohio), African American gridiron football player who helped desegregate professional football in the 1940s during a career that earned him induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in
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27
1999
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is an American golfer and one of the most successful and highly paid golfers of all time with a record streak of 264 weeks as the highest ranked player. He was born Eldrick Tont Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California to Earl and Kultida Woods and nicknamed
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Dec
30
1975
Government shutters EcoCash
The government on Friday struck a mortal blow on Econet, suspending mobile money transactions, which will affect EcoCash the most, and suspended trade on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in an effort to contain the collapse of the
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The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People
For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, and needs to be
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ABC 7 CHICAGO TO HOST FOURTH IN SERIES OF VIRTUAL TOWN HALLS, DO YOU HEAR ME? A DISCUSSION ABOUT RACE, MODERATED BY TERRELL BROWN AND LEAH HOPE
ABC 7 Chicago, Chicago’s Number One station for news, presents the fourth installment in a series of virtual town halls, DO YOU HEAR
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Teamwork & Partnership
Jesus, as Wayshower, sent his disciples out to do the work of ministry in teams of two (Mark
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Western Cape High Court rules that lockdown regulations are justified, dismisses application
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Meteorological agency calls for action to avert mudslide disasters in Freetown
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NFL Kicking Off Voter Registration and Education Initiative - Black News Channel
By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer/ BNC Contributor The NFL is kicking off a voting education and registration initiative. Commissioner Roger Goodell told the 32 team owners on a conference call Thursday that the league is developing programs and working with the players association, Players
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Sister Tarpley: Little by little
“The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by
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More Blacks in Oak Lawn have died of COVID-19 than most small towns outside of Chicago | The Crusader Newspaper Group
With the vibe of a suburb, Oak Lawn’s Black population has been hit harder than many predominately Black cities outside Chicago, including Country Club Hills, Chicago Heights and South
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There should be no time wasting in having Lowenfield removed
Today in 2020, the majority of Guyanese are yet again fighting to have democratic principles prevail, albeit this time it is to ensure their votes are not stolen or disregarded by rigging of the
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Seattle ‘Karen’ Has A Total Meltdown After Black Driver Records Her ‘White Tears’
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Gale Sayers, youngest player ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame, bo
Gale Sayers, youngest player ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame, born
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30
1943
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1910: US President William Howard Taft signs the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for
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Disney World Is Nixing Its Park Hopper Ticket, Using a New Reservation System — What to Know – Free Press of Jacksonville
By Alison Fox – As Disney World prepares to open next month, the Happiest Place on Earth is introducing a reservation-based system aimed at reducing crowds and making it easier to enforce social
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Selective outrage retrogressive to the African plight
Even those in Africa, well, some of them, marched in support of the rights and cries of the Black Lives Matter
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What should the West learn from China?
Fortunately, while the COVID-19 is spreading around the world, China has achieved progress in controlling the epidemic, and has gradually resumed the economic and social operations, enabling it to free up its hands to accelerate the production of epidemic prevention materials to aid those countries
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“Life Is Precious”: Quad Webb Shares A Little Peak Of Her Daughter Ariana
Married To Medicine‘s Quad Webb is still floating on cloud nine after revealing that she was stepping into a new role in her life after adopting a daughter named
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Does Joe Biden’s Vice President have to be a Black woman?
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the
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A salute to the AKA AKAdemy Class of 2020
Zeta Upsilon Omega Chapter and the men of Eta Rho Chapter of Omega Psi celebrate and congratulate the AKA AKAdemy Class of 2020
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Earl Christian Campbell is a professional American football player who played for the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints. He was born on March 29, 1955 in Tyler, Texas. He was the sixth of eleven children in his family. Their father died when he was very young. He began playing football at
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Jul
27
1991
5 toughest teams to watch out for this NFL season
The NFL season this year is just around the corner and will start in September,... The post 5 toughest teams to watch out for this NFL season appeared first on Voice Online.
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McDonald’s Launches $500,000 Scholarship For HBCU Students
Earlier this week, McDonald’s USA announced that they launched their new “Black and Positively Golden Scholarship Fund to assist students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) this upcoming fall despite the impact of
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