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Senate Republicans Finally Agree To Another Round Of Stimulus Checks | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Tanya A. Christian, ESSENCE Weeks after House Democrats passed the HEROES Act in an effort to aid Americans who have been financially affected by the coronavirus-spurred economic turndown, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has finally agreed to another round of payments. On Tuesday, the Kentucky lawmaker said he envisioned direct checks, but remained unclear […]

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11

1965

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1922

California Fugitive Slave Law adopted

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15

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Cassius Clay Becomes Muhammad Ali

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26

1964

Segregation Movements

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24

1881

Congress passes a bill authorizing the creation of 500,000Black Revolutionary

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1996

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29

1945

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21

1972

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22

1964

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1777

NAACP annual report

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29

1972

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19

1925

Donald Payne, first African American congressman f

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1934

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1957

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28

1967

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4

1832

Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868).

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6

1981

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5

1968

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10

1788

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1880

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23

1897

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24

1884

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1962

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1

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