Sen. Doug Jones’ support for diversity goes beyond campaign spending

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Sen. Doug Jones’ support for diversity goes beyond campaign spending

By Jesse J. Lewis Sr. This is an opinion column Is Senator Doug Jones a friend to the Black community? This sounds like a rhetorical question, but here we are answering it. Recently, I was dismayed by reports of a lack of spending on Black-owned businesses by Jones’ campaign. I did my own research, concerned […]

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One-Man Show of Art by Negro, First of Kind Here, Opens Today, read the headline of a front-page article in The New York Times on this day. The article announced the opening of Archibald J. Motley, Jrs show at the New Gallery on Madison Avenue. This was the first time in History that an artist had

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1

1917

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1873

William Ellisworth Artist is born

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29

1926

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9

1905

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9

1995

Walter F.White, NAACP Pres.

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1931

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18

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1958

On this day, Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun'opened at the Ethel Bar

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11

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The first African American magazine, Mirror of Freedom, begins publication in Ne

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1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Ken

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1999

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1965

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1969

Harry Belafonte wins an Emmy

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20

1960

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1963

the Bronze Muse

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22

1911

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29

1907

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10

1973

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1831

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1989

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President George Bush nominated conservative black Clarence Thomas to replace Th

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