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Vernon E.Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., former executive director of the United Negro College Fund, appointed executive director of the National Urban League.
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Jun
15
1971
Profits, Pandemics, People and Racist – Dallas Post Tribune
By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint The number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in this country has now exceeded 3 million, and is increasing. Unlike the rest of the world, we have not been able to get control of this virus and not because we don’t have the […]
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Perkins, Marvin (1963– )
Marvin Perkins is an accomplished recording vocal artist, a sought-after public speaker, and a leader in the effort to correct misunderstanding and incorrect assumptions about blacks, especially in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
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Chairman Hastings, Representative Meeks Issue Statement on Foreign Affairs Funding for Diversity and Global Anti-Racism Programs - The Atlanta Inquirer
Chairman Hastings, Representative Meeks Issue Statement on Foreign Affairs Funding for Diversity and Global Anti-Racism Programs Members Commemorate John Lewis’ Yearly Leadership in Securing These Appropriations Requests WASHINGTON, D.C. — Helsinki Commission Chairman Representative Alcee
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Actress Drew Sidora and YouTube Star LaToya Ali Reportedly Secure a Peach for Season 13 of 'RHOA'
Actress Drew Sidoraand Canadian YouTuber LaToya Ali will join the cast of 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta,' US Weekly confirms. According to the outlet, Drew […]
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CSA launch 'Cricket for Social Justice and Nation Building'
Cricket South Africa launched an initiative called Cricket for Social Justice and Nation Building which aims to address resistance to transformation
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Spingarn Medal : Medar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers awarded Spingarn Medal posthumously for his civil rights leadership.
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Dec
12
1963
Paul Robeson and Japanese Americans, 1942-1949
One hero and friend of Japanese Americans, both individuals and the community generally, was Paul Robeson. Robeson was (after Joe Louis) the most popular and visible African American of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a celebrated stage actor and movie star, an internationally famous folk
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WNBA Teams Walk Off Court Ahead Of National Anthem On Opening Day
The two teams — the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty — stayed in their locker rooms in solidarity with Black Lives Matter while the anthem played.
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Trump and Carson’s attack on Fair Housing racially motivated | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
Trump and Carson’s Latest Attack on Fair Housing Racially Motivated and Unlawful President Donald Trump and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson announced without following a required notice … Continued
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AP-NORC poll: US course at record low, Trump sinks on virus | The Atlanta Voice
With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump’s presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position as his reelection bid against Democrat Joe Biden enters a pivotal stretch. A new poll from
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
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Attika J. Torrence Continues to Add to the Legacy of Brooklyn Storytellers
Attika J. Torrence is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, an award-winning director, an actor, screenplay writer, and novelist
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Celebrating a centenarian: Mrs. Helen Johnson – A model of resilience - TSDMemphis.com
by Daphene Johnson - One of the most esteemed ranks to which a person can ascend is centenarian, a distinct group of individuals blessed to reach the age of 100 years old. Being a centenarian in 2020 means individuals born in 1920 or earlier. My mother, Helen Johnson, is in that company. She
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Demonstrators Arrested
Home of Z. Alexander Looby, counsel for 153 students arrested in sit-in demonstrations, destroyed by dynamite bomb. More than eighty-three demonstrators indicted in Atlanta, Georgia, on charges stemming from the sit-in demonstrations at Atlanta restaurants. Two thousand students marched on the
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Apr
19
1960
Sen. Tom Cotton Launches Bill Banning Federal Funds for Teaching America Founded on Slavery - African American News Today - EIN News
… take seriously what it owes black Americans.” In her “project,” Hannah-Jones … telling mistruths about the trials African-Americans endured does this community a …
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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) said white racism was the fundamental cause of the riots in American cities. The commission said America was moving toward two societies, one Black, one white, separate and unequal.
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Feb
29
1968
Ernie Davis
Ernest Davis commonly referred to as “Ernie” by friends and colleagues, was an American football halfback who passed away at the mere age of 23 due to complications from leukemia. Born in New Salem, Pennsylvania on December 14, 1939, Davis was a popular athlete in his school and college
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Korematsu v. United States
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Dec
18
1944
Democrats sink to rock bottom with Biden - African American News Today - EIN News
… was the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright … articulate, bright, clean, well spoken black Americans before Obama. How about Martin … articulate, bright, clean, well spoken black Americans before Obama. How about Martin …
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Dems will never choose transformative change – Florida Courier
The COVID-19 epidemic proved beyond all rational doubt that decades of bipartisan privatization and austerity had destroyed the U.S. “public” health care system, rendering the nation structurally incapable of coping with the viral onslaught. The late and geographically uneven lockdown succeeded
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Barney L. Ford, Gold Miner, born
Early Colorado gold miner, hotel magnate and entreprenuer, former slave Barney L. Ford, was born in Stafford Court House, Virginia. Through a number of business dealings, Ford became a wealthy man but was dogged by a series of tragic accidents. The restaurants and hotels he owned in
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Jan
22
1822
The Red Sox Have Put Up A Black Lives Matter Sign By Fenway Park
The Boston Red Sox are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, placing a 254-foot billboard with the phrase running alongside the Massachusetts Turnpike. The Red Sox were…
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Source: The Black Chronicle
Guest column: Wake-up call | Atlanta Daily World
By Tim Cox I vividly recall the spring of 1968. I was 10 years old. Then, America was in a state of turmoil following the April 4 assassinations of Dr. … Continued The post Guest column: Wake-up call appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
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Inventor, WB Purvis, patents the fountain pen, 1890
Inventor, WB Purvis, patents the fountain pen, 1890
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Jan
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1890
Black Trump Supporter Shot And Killed In Milwaukee
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African Students Share How Often They Experience Racism In Lebanon : NPR
Racial reckoning in the U.S. has sparked conversations about racism worldwide. African students at the American University of Beirut share their experience of dealing with discrimination in Lebanon.
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration began. Approximately two million Southern Blacks moved to Northern industrial centers in the following
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Dec
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1915
Late Rep. John Lewis Crosses Edmund Pettus Bridge In Selma
… , Alabama state troopers, including some African American ones, saluted Lewis. ASSOCIATED PRESS … , said he remembers, as an African American child, watching news footage of …
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Rep. Greg Pence Called Out For Racist Collectables At His Antique Mall
The Indiana representative is slammed on social media by his political opponent.
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the following article University of Oregon historian Carlos Aguirre describes the self-taught poet, writer, and folklorist Nicomedes Santa Cruz, one of the understudied black intellectual leaders in Peru and Latin
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