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Cyber-Youth Network Launch
On Wednesday, February 3rd, for the first time in history, Americas urban students will have a Web site specifically designed to address their educational needs and interests. The site -- called the Cyber-Youth Network -- provides a model for online education by offering students and teachers
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Source: Blackfacts.com
Feb
3
1999
Cook, Will Mercer (1903-1987)
Will Mercer Cook served as the United States ambassador to the Republic of Niger from 1961 to 1964. Cook directed U.S. economic, social, and cultural programs in Niger, which included the Peace Corps. During the mid-1960s he also became the special envoy to Gambia and
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Source: Black Past
Oct
4
1987
Cornel West
Media personality Cornel West is an African American Studies scholar and socialist critic of the white patriarchy that is the United States of America. West grew up in Sacramento and graduated from Harvard in 1973. He then embarked on an academic career in the humanities, teaching ethics, religion
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Pamela L. Carter
Pamela L. Carter was President of Cummins Distribution Business at Cummins Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of diesel engines and related components and power systems. Carter joined Cummins in 1997 as Vice President – General Counsel and held various management positions before her
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Scott, Robert “Bobby” (1947- )
Congressman Robert Cortez “Bobby” Scott was born on April 30, 1947 in Washington, D.C. but later resided in Newport News, Virginia.  Scott attended Harvard University and later graduated from the Boston College School of
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Source: Black Past
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Apr
30
1947
Ralph Bunche
Ralph Bunche , in full Ralph Johnson Bunche (born Aug. 7, 1904, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1971, New York, N.Y.), U.S. diplomat, a key member of the United Nations for more than two decades, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Peace for his successful negotiation of an Arab-Israeli
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(Press Release) BlackPast.org Opens World of Black History to the World of Internet Users
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Feb
1
2007
Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad Heroine
Harriet Tubman was born a slave, managed to escape to freedom in the North, and devoted herself to helping other slaves escape via the Underground
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Mar
10
1913
Watch What Happens When You Give “Too Much Dap” In Hilarious ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ Clip
We could all use a little humor, and the show’s “Black History Month Spectacular” Juneteenth (June.19) return is right on
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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture
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Southern, Eileen Jackson (1920-2002)
Eileen Southern was among the first generation of musicologists focused on studying, preserving, and teaching the history and traditions of African American music. She was also the first female African American faculty member at Harvard
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Source: Black Past
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Our HBCUs: They Have Overcome And Will Do So Again.
I have every confidence that, like Harvard, flagship HBCUs such as Hampton and Howard Universities will adapt and continue to provide excellence in education and opportunities for the next generation to learn and develop the skills needed to compete in the domestic and global
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Why Black People Are Not Interested In Black History|BlackHistoryMonth2014
http://svy.mk/1iqglGW Why is it that so many black people are not interested in Black History or Black History Month. Could it be that there is a Cognitive Dissonance when it comes to addressing issues in the black community. We say one thing, but our actions are inconsistent with our
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Black History Month Creation and Overview
Black History Month is a month set aside to learn, honor, and celebrate the achievements of black men and women throughout history. Since its inception, Black History Month has always been celebrated in February. Find out how Black History Month originated, why February was chosen, and what the
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Sep
9
1915
African-American history
African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-American or Black American ethnic groups in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. Blacks from the
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Jan
1
1863
Deep Roots Across the Atlantic: Rice and Race in Africa and the Americas
Carnegie Mellon University historian Edda L. Fields Blacks 2008 book, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora, opened a vast new area of diasporic study by linking the cultivation of rice in Africa to the rise of this crucially important food crop in Colonial South
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Source: Black Past
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Countee Cullen, born
Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist
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May
30
1903
Carter G. Woodson
Born: 12/19/1875 New Canton, VirginiaDied: 4/3/1950 Washington, D.C., United StatesKnown as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson believed that documenting and sharing African American contributions was essential to cultivating positive self worth among African-Americans as
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John Legend
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and
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Dec
28
1978
Cornel West
Cornel West , (born June 2, 1953, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.), American philosopher, scholar of African American studies, and political activist. His influential book Race Matters (1993) lamented what he saw as the spiritual impoverishment of the African American underclass and critically examined the
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Source: Brittanica
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Jun
2
1953
Maryland Unveils Statues of Tubman, Douglass in Capitol – Free Press of Jacksonville
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press – ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — At a time when states are debating the removal of Confederate monuments, Maryland unveiled bronze statues of famed abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass during a ceremony Monday night in the Maryland State
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
Harry A. Blackmun
Harry A. Blackmun , in full Harry Andrew Blackmun (born Nov. 12, 1908, Nashville, Ill., U.S.—died March 4, 1999, Arlington, Va.), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1970 to
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Source: Brittanica
Mar
4
1999
Weaver, Robert Clifton (1907-1997)
Robert C. Weaver was a noted economist and administrator. From 1966 through 1968, he was the first African American cabinet official, serving as the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Weaver was born and raised in Washington D.C. From 1929 through 1934, he attended
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Source: Black Past
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois also known as William Edward Burghardt (b. Feburary 23, 1868) was a an African-American historian, civil rights activist and the first sociologist to ever have an article published on the rights of African-Americans. His great-grandfather was French-American and his family had
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Source: Black History Resources
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(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Address to the Harvard Alumni Dinner"
One year after his Atlanta Compromise Speech 40-year-old Booker T. Washington was on his way to becoming the most influential African American in the United States.  One example of that growing influence was the invitation from the Harvard Alumni to speak at their annual dinner in Cambridge while
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Source: Black Past
Authors pull study flagging hydroxychloroquine risks
The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat Covid-19, after the paper's authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Explains the Legacy of Juneteenth
On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken
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Black History Month
Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month in America, is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and in the Netherlands (as of 2016)[6] where it is known as Black Achievement Month. it began as a way for remembering important people and events in
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Jan
27
2016
Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois
Throughout his career as a sociologist, historian, educator, and sociopolitical activist, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois argued for immediate racial equality for African-Americans. His emergence as an African-American leader paralleled the rise of  Jim Crow laws of the South and the
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Feb
23
1868
Richard Theodore Greener
Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University
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Jan
30
1844
The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013
In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in
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