Ice Cube Will Meet with Biden to Discuss Contract with Black America

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Ice Cube Will Meet with Biden to Discuss Contract with Black America

O'Shea Jackson AKA Ice Cube will finally get that Contract with Black America looked at by the current president, Joe Biden

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Taylor, George Edwin (1857-1925)

Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor would become the first African American selected by a political party to be its candidate for the presidency of the United

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Nov

20

1904

Tears We Cannot Stop: Michael Eric Dyson Explains Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy to Us Today

On January 17, 2017, eighty-eight years after the birth of the most revered civil rights leader in the 20th Century, Georgetown University scholar, social activist, reverend, and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson describes in his new book, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, his

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2017

First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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List of museums focused on African Americans

This is a list of museums in the United States whose primary focus is on African American culture and history. Such museums are commonly known as African American museums. According to scholar Raymond Doswell, an African-American museum is an institution established for the preservation of

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Talk:Black nationalism

This article is within the scope of WikiProject African diaspora, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of African diaspora on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open

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Post–Civil Rights era in African-American history

The Post–Civil Rights era in African-American history is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained federal

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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America

In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based

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Rep. Jim Clyburn Will Lead House Oversight Committee on Coronavirus

During an exclusive live broadcast, Clyburn told National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to impanel a committee after she recalled a similar body selected by President Harry S. Truman after World War

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Jarrett, Valerie (1956- )

Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, was born on November 14, 1956. She is a Chicago, Illinois attorney, businesswoman, and community leader most prominently known for her role as one of the three campaign co-chairs of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential

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(1964) Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”

By March 1964, Malcolm X had broken with the Nation of Islam. In the speech below, given on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, he explains his departure and his reason for establishing a separation between his religion and his politics. He also makes clear that those politics are still rooted in black

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1964

Meet Ernest White: The FAMU Grad Behind The Travel TV Show ‘Fly Brother’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

Although Black people have always traveled, it has only begun to surge within the last 7-10 years, largely in part to the internet and travel blogs like White’s becoming more

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Coronavirus Update: Trump Publicly Clashes With Fauci And Pushes To Open Schools In The Fall

These cases include more than 150 children in several states, mostly in New

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How Bayard Rustin, a Gay Man, Changed Civil Rights

Bayard Rustin isn’t a household name, but his contributions to the civil rights movement rival those of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin organized the March on Washington, where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A confidante and advisor to King, he introduced the civil

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Mar

17

1912

African Americans and Cuba's First Experiment in Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960

In the article below University of California, Riverside historian Ralph Crowder describes this fascinating but little known attempt by Joe Louis and Fidel Castro to encourage middle class African American tourism to Cuba in the first year of the new

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Jun

6

1960

Cole, Robert "Bob," Jr. (1868-1911)

Entertainer Robert Allen “Bob” Cole, Jr. was born on July 1, 1868 in Athens, Georgia to his parents Robert Allen Cole, Sr. and Isabella Thomas Weldon. The Coles were well known in the Athens community, which boasted a robust African American community at the time. Being from

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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America

In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based

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Tracee Ellis Ross Debuts Her First Song

The “Black-ish” actor, whose mother is the legendary singer Diana Ross, on Friday debuted her first song, “Love Myself,” a single off the soundtrack for upcoming film “The High

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Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth , legal name Isabella Van Wagener (born c. 1797, Ulster county, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Mich.), African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights

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abolition of slavery

On April 19, 1866, the African American citizensof Washington D.C. celebrated the abolition of slavery. 4,000 to 5,000 people assembled to the White House addressed by Andrew Johnson. Led by twoblack regiments the spectators, and the procession proceeded up the Pennsylvania Avenue to FranklinSquare

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Apr

19

1866

Barack Obama Vetoes - List of Bills

President Barack Obama used his veto authority only four times during his tenure in the White House, the fewest of any president who completed at least one term since Millar Fillmore in the mid-1800s, according to data kept by the

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Smiley grew up near Kokomo, Indiana, and attended Indiana University at Bloomington but left in 1988 to work for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. (In 2003 he completed his bachelor’s degree.) Smiley became a national broadcaster in 1996 when he took positions as a political commentator on the Tom

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The White House released a statement which said

The White House released a statement which said that government policy is not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel in the same regimental organizations.

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Oct

9

1940

Assertive, foresighted and progressive political leadership among Black elected officials has been wanton in the past, and now, Black folks must decide who to elect as we’re faced with some of the gravest challenges of our

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J. Veronica Biggins

J. Veronica Biggins is a Managing Partner, Atlanta Office for Diversified Search LLC. Biggins has over 15 years of experience as a Senior Partner in Executive Search. Biggins’ background includes 20 years of experience with Nations Bank (now Bank of America). Biggins previously served as

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Jesse Owens: Four Time Olympic Gold Medalist

During the 1930s, the Great Depression, Jim Crow Era laws and de facto segregation kept African-Americans in the United States fighting for equality. In Eastern Europe, the Jewish Holocaust was well underway with German ruler Adolf Hitler spearheading a Nazi

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Bernard Jeffrey “Bernie” McCullough, or Bernie Mac, was an American comedian and actor, born on October 5, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. After losing his mother at the age of 16, Mac would set up stand-up comedy shows for neighborhood kids and spent most of his 20s serving various

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Aug

9

2008

Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes: Track and Field Athlete

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, sister-in-law of Florence Griffith-Joyner, has been called the worlds greatest woman

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Jackson, Jessie Louis, Sr. (1941- )

Long before he became a minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, Jesse Louis Jackson impressed his family and close friends as a person destined for greatness. Born

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Source: Black Past

Oct

8

1941

DR NJENGA: Is poor night sleep sign of menopause?

The age at which women reach menopause is quite variable and can be from as early as 30 years or as late as 60 in some rare

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Wiggins, Thomas “Blind Tom” (1849-1908)

Thomas Greene Wiggins was born May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, slaves on a Georgia plantation. He was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. In 1850 Tom, his parents, and two brothers were sold to James Neil Bethune, a lawyer and newspaper editor in

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1908

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