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Local Market Foods in South Shore to host free mammogram drive | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Crusader Staff Report Local Market Foods in South Shore’s Jeffery Plaza will host a free, all-day mammogram screening drive on Monday, July 12, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Chicago-based Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority organization, which will conduct the screenings in its special pink and green mobile mammogram unit. […]

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La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual. Articles were written in both French, for the majority of African Americans in Louisiana, and English, in order

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Black Congressman George H. White, North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. One report contends that in 1900, 105 Africans were lynched in the United States.

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20

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Bullard, Eugene James ["Jacques"] (1895-1961)

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1895

Charles Wesley, historian, educator, and administrator, was born on this day. His published works included, Neglected History, Collapse of the Confederacy, Negro Labor in the United States, and 1850-1925: A Study of American Economic History.

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Madame C.J. Walker

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(1817) J. Forten & Russel Perrott, “An Address To The Humane And Benevolent Inhabitants Of The City And County Of Philadelphia

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Lambert, Charles Lucièn, Sr. (1828-1896)

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Minister Lott Cary left the United States leading a group of freed slaves, most of whom were members of the American Colonization Society, to colonize a small portion of West Africa. This area became known as the Republic of Liberia in 1847.

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