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The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has seen an upsurge in the number of robberies and measures are being put in place to combat and decrease the prevalence of the crime, Regional Commander of Region 4(a) Phillip Azore
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Know who’s not convinced of how much Trump has done for black Americans? Black Americans. - African American News Today - EIN News
president has done more for black Americans than himself, with Lincoln polling firm Ipsos, polled black Americans in January and this January, 7 percent of black Americans viewed Trump with approval. from January. How many black Americans don’t plan on
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Dallas Lowriders Cruise For Census | Dallas Weekly
The cruise is part of the Dallas County Counts! Census awareness campaign Thousands of North Texas families have not responded to the 2020 U.S. Census, so the Dallas County Counts! campaign is taking its outreach efforts on the road on Sunday, July 12, leading a 7-mile car cruise through Oak
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Bartlett warns against sterile treatment of tourists
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New campaign encourages pregnant women to seek health care
THE Ministry of Health and Wellness has embarked on a national campaign aimed at encouraging more expectant women to access health care in order to improve health outcomes for both mother and
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Barrow, Dean Oliver (1951- )
On February 7, 2008, Belize elected Dean Barrow as its first black Prime Minister. Born March 2, 1951, in Belize City, Barrow earned his LL.M. from the University of Miami in the United States and became partner at a Belizean law firm in 1977.  Two years later he established his own
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Bertonneau, E. Arnold (1834-1912)
Arnold Bertonneau was a New Orleans wine merchant, black soldier, and is best known as one of the first African American participants in Louisiana’s Reconstruction period. In 1862-63, Bertonneau was a captain in the 1st Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards. This volunteer black regiment
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Milton Glaser, Designer Of “I Love NY” Logo, Dead At 91
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Chisholm, Shirley (1924-2005)
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, an advocate for the rights of people of color and for womens rights, became in November 1968 the first black woman elected to the United States Congress.  Four  years later she became the first black person to seek a major party’s nomination for the U.S. presidency
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Anti-Segregation Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr. opened anti-segregation campaign in Birmingham. More than two thousand demonstrators, including King, were arrested before the campaign ended.
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Apr
3
1963
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Sixteen Blacks were elected to Congress. Andrew Young of Atlanta was the first Black elected to Congress from the Deep South since the Reconstruction era. Also elected for the first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Calif.). Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of
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1972
War Department established Bureau of Colored
War Department established Bureau of Colored Troops and launched aggressive campaign for recruitment of Black soldiers.
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Jones, Anthony “Van” (1968- )
Van Jones is a social-environmental activist and the Obama administration’s former “Green Czar.” He was born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother and father were a high school teacher and junior-high principal respectively. While growing up, Jones was a stereotypical
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Bolton: Trump's denial of Russian bounty intelligence briefing shows his 'fundamental focus' is not on US security | The Atlanta Voice
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Reddit, Twitch clamp down Trumpist forums for hate speech
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Verizon joins growing Facebook advertising boycott
Verizon Communications said on Thursday it was pausing advertising on Facebook in July, in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its
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Tulsa Organizations Announce Campaign to Memorialize Tulsa Race Massacre | Muslim Journal
The Muslim Journal Newswire TULSA, Okla.—The “Black Wall Street Memorial” committee and Tulsa Community Remembrance Coalition are launching the“10,000 Brick Campaign”throughout May to build a memorial to Black Wall Street in honor of those lynched during the 1921 Race Massacre. Beginning May 1, the
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Burundi
President Nkurunziza ran for a second term in 2010. He ran unopposed as the opposition boycotted the race, claiming there were irregularities in earlier local elections. The opposition formed a new party, the Alliance of Democrats for Change (ADC-Ikibiri). Nkurunziza announced in June 2014 that he
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Blacks meet to protest
Philadelphia Blacks held meetings at Bethel Church to protest colonization societys campaign to exile us from the land of our nativity.
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1811
Teyana Taylor is Dropping a Collection With MAC in July •
In February, she starred in the music documentary Assembly Required: Teyana Taylor’s House of Petunia; released The Album, her third studio album, on Juneteenth; and surprised fans in her recently-debuted Wake Up Love video, by revealing a baby bump (she’s expecting her second child with
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This Black-Owned Agency Is Putting Black Beauty Creatives On The Map
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First Black Mayor of Kansas City in 1991
The Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver II was elected as the mayor of the City of Kansas City, Missouri in 1991. At the time of his election, the black population in Kansas City was approximately 15 percent and the fact that not all blacks are registered to vote or take the time to vote indicates that black
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1991
Uganda: Struggling Aganist All Odds to Ensure Learning Continuity Through Radio, TV Lessons
[Monitor] When the coronavirus pandemic hit Uganda in late March, all education institutions were closed as a way of preventing the spread of the virus. This meant disruption of the school term for all learners.
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Brown, Odessa (1920-1969)
Odessa Brown, for whom the Children’s Clinic in Seattle is named, was born April 30, 1920, in Des Arc, Arkansas.  She moved to Seattle in 1963 after receiving training as a licensed beautician at the C. J. Walker Beauty School in Chicago.  A mother of four, she supported her family by working as
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1969
State primary is June 9
As early voting wraps up this week, the state of Georgia is preparing for its primary election slated for Tuesday, June 9. For Burke Countians, a number of local races will also be determined or narrowed down for the general election in November. As of Tuesday afternoon, Laverne Sello, executive
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LUESBY: Why customers need better protection
For you can run your campaign or ‘pause’ it, but once paused, Google may or may not ‘unpause’ it for
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Bluefield State College (1895-- )
Bluefield State College is one of the firsthistorically black colleges (HCBUs) to become a predominantly whiteinstitution.  The college was opened in1895 as the Bluefield Colored Institute after the expansion of the Morrill Actin 1890 to provide funding for African American colleges from the sale
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"Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Road to the White House, 2008
Barack Obamas campaign for the Presidency in 2008 has been described by many political analysts as brilliant and virtually flawless.  Despite his inexperience in national politics and limited experience in state politics (Obama was first elected to political office in 1994), he assembled
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Obama Explains Why Democrats Can’t Afford To Get Smug About Trump
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned Democrats against thinking they’ve already won the 2020
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