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In December 2010, a college graduate who worked as a street vendor set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid to protest unemployment, corruption and the continued police state. A spate of other protests followed and spread throughout the country. As many as 10,000 people took to the streets of
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President Lincoln received first group of Blacks
President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks.
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DNA Test Confirms Rick Ross Is The Father Of Ex’s Kids
Court documents have confirmed that Rozay is indeed the father of former partner Briana Camille’s two smaller
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At least 24 Kenyans abroad have died of Covid-19 while 41 are in critical condition in various hospitals across the world, the Foreign Affairs ministry has
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ESSENCE Releases First Comprehensive Survey on How Black Women Are Impacted by COVID-19
Financially, over half (52%) of black women in the study are currently facing or anticipating a negative financial impact as a result of the pandemic, as compared with only 20% who are not, and half (50%) say that their ability to work effectively has been negatively affected by the
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LSK cancels senior counsel honour for Kalonzo, Karua
The drastic decision by the new LSK council comes almost a year after the Committee on Senior Counsel chaired by Supreme Court judge Justice Mohamed Ibrahim completed the process of identifying the
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Meet The Black-Owned Legal Firm Handling The Murder Case of Ahmaud Arbery – Free Press of Jacksonville
Stewart Trial Attorneys based in Atlanta — one of the most respected African American law firms in the country — is now handling the Ahmaud Arbery
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New York Slave Revolt. April 7, 1712 Nine whites were killed in a slave revolt in New York City. Planned by 27 slaves, the rebellion was begun by setting fire to an outhouse; as whites came to put the fire out, there were shot. The state militia was called out to capture the rebels and the city of
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7
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STREAMED: Our Toxic King Future Unleashes “High Off Life,” Will Smith Drops Fire Verse On Joyner Lucas’ “Will (Remix)” & More
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Thomas J.Martin is awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.
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1872
Bishop Kenneth Ulmer Senior Pastor, Faithful Central Bible Church
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Another Black Church Destroyed
A Black church was destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia. This was the eighth church burned in Georgia since August 15.
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Firefighters Association
The Vulcans, Boston's African-American firefighters' association, was formed in 1972. At that time there had been only 17 Black and Hispanic firemen in the history of the city's fire department. When the Vulcans filed a court suit against the city of Boston for discrimination in hiring
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Why Black People Are Not Interested In Black History|BlackHistoryMonth2014
http://svy.mk/1iqglGW Why is it that so many black people are not interested in Black History or Black History Month. Could it be that there is a Cognitive Dissonance when it comes to addressing issues in the black community. We say one thing, but our actions are inconsistent with our
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Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church (c. 1830- )
Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, located in Brooklyn, St. Clair County, Illinois, is one of the oldest still-operating historically African American church in the state of
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Baldwin, James (1924-1987)
James Arthur Baldwin, fiction writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet, was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York during the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1942, he began his formal career as a writer.  Baldwin was inspired by Richard
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To assist in starting the process of personal and socioeconomic recovery, Ihama offered a psycho spiritual strategy of three keys in becoming resilient and
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Blueface’s Baby Mama Jaidyn Alexis Smashed Out Window At His Home
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Church Outbreak: A look at what’s next in WV’s effort to control COVID-19 in the state’s African American population
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Cicely Tyson Quotes on Life, Acting and More
Cicely Tyson, a stage and film actress, is known for roles in such projects as Roots, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Sounder (which won her an Oscar nomination), Fried Green Tomatoes, The Help, King (in which she played Coretta Scott King), A Woman Called Moses (where she played Harriet
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(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
Long termed a “race riot,” the turmoil that enveloped Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 is now called an armed insurrection. White supremacists drove from power all of the black and white elected officials of this predominately African American city in what was believed to
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Denise Levertov , (born October 24, 1923, Ilford, Essex [now in Greater London], England—died December 20, 1997, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), English-born American poet, essayist, and political activist who wrote deceptively matter-of-fact verse on both personal and political
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Johnson, Anthony (? – 1670)
Anthony Johnson was the first prominent black landholder in the English colonies.  Johnson arrived in Virginia in 1621 aboard the James.  It is uncertain if Johnson arrived as an indentured servant or as a slave, early records list him as “Antonio, a Negro.”  Regardless of his
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