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Meet the celebrated artist behind 'Ethiopia', the first Pan-African American work of art - Face2Face Africa

The Harlem Rennaisance movement in the 1920s became one of the historic expressions of the black experience. Founded as a literary and musical expressionist movement around the experiences of black people, the movement bequeathed to us geniuses and their works. Black artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller anticipated this development with her sculpture Ethiopia Awakening otherwise...

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University of Arkansas Pine Bluff (1873- )

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was created by the Arkansas Legislative Act of 1873. The University was established for the convenience and well-being of the poorer classes” which meant African Americans in the state. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the oldest

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PATH TO SAINTHOOD - African American News Today - EIN News

… Baton Rouge,” depicting African Americans and whites during the … the candidates are all African American descendants. “They are … who accepted those six African Americans,” Father Johnson said. … portraits of the six African American candidates for sainthood …

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Donald, Arnold (1954- )

Arnold Donald is an American businessman and CEO of Carnival Corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida. He has held the position since 2013. Prior to this position, he was a senior executive at Monsanto in

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Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. Wright, Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all

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The United States Colored Troops (1863-1865)

The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was the designation given to the approximately 175 regiments of non-white soldiers that served during the Civil War. The troops were primarily African American, but Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders were all included within the

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Born: 11/4/1942 Manhattan, New YorkAmerican ophthalmologist, inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to Bath, no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed a post-graduate training program in

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James Stone first black to fight in Civil War

James Stone, a light skinned fugitive slave passing for white, enlisted in the First Fight Artillery of Ohio. His racial identity would not be known until his death nearly a year later.

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Baca, Susana (1944- )

Susana Baca, recording artist and the first Afro-Peruvian to sit as a Cabinet Minister, was born in 1944 in Chorrillos, a seaside district of Lima, Peru, to a working class family. Her father was a chauffeur and her mother worked as cook and laundress for upper class families. Baca began singing at

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Jenkins, Joseph Charles (1914-1959)

Joseph Charles Jenkins, the first African American naval officer, paved the way for the beginning of desegregation in the United States Coast Guard. Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1914. Unfortunately, there is little information regarding his

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African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.

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SÜPRMARKT and D Smoke presents 'Feed The Hood' to the Inglewood Community - Los Angeles Sentinel

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Delaware State University [Dover] (1891-- )

Delaware State University is a public historically black university with its main campus in Dover and two other campuses in Wilmington and Georgetown. The school was established in 1891 as State College for Colored Students after passage of the Morrill Act of 1890 which gave land-grants to

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… unapologetic mass murderer of nine African Americans in a Charleston South

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Report: COVID-19 Now is The Third Leading Cause of Death Among Black People - Los Angeles Sentinel

“In 2020, more Black Americans will die of COVID-19 than will succumb to diabetes, strokes, accidents, or pneumonia. In fact, COVID-19 is currently the third leading cause of death for African Americans,” concluded Trevon Logan, professor of economics at the Ohio State University and Bradley

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George H. White

George H. White, the only African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, (1896) and the first to introduce an antilynching bill, born. He also founded Whitesboro, N,J, as a haven for African Americans escaping Southern racism.

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Grambling State University (1901-- )

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Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director,

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Feb

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Oakland Could Become Home to First Black-Owned NFL Team - African American News Today - EIN News

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Florence Price, composer born

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Tribute: Chadwick Boseman (1976 – 2020): An immortal who belongs to the ages - African American News Today - EIN News

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Pressure From Congress

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