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Ellison, Keith M. (1963- )
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison was born on August 4, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan.  He was raised Catholic in a middle class family which included five sons to a father who was a psychiatrist and a mother who was a social worker.  Since childhood Ellison was involved with the civil rights
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Will New York City Renters Get the Right to Be Cool? - The Sacramento Observer
By Willy Blackmore | Word In Black Overview: Each year, 350 New Yorkers die from heat stress, and a disproportionate number are Black. Brooklyn's City Council representative is proposing a 'right to a cool home' law, modeled on a 1900s-era law guaranteeing renters heat in the wint
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Howard University Student Virgil Parker Selected as 2020 Rangel Summer Fellow
The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program has selected Howard University senior journalism student Virgil Parker as one of its 15 fellows following a highly competitive nationwide selection
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The Sword of The Black Press
Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly
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Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis | Afro
Stanton-King could use a dose of that reality herself, according to Dwight Bullard, political director of New Florida Majority, an organization that supports progressive Democrats and people of
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20
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Oliver Clarke dies - Media giant passes away at home at 75
A central figure in corporate Jamaica, Clarke played a pivotal role in the establishment of the powerful Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) in 1976 and was later immortalised among its esteemed leadership over the years when he was inducted into the organisation’s Hall of Fame in
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‘Black Wall Street’: Trump’s plan for rally in Tulsa calls attention to 1921 race massacre
In 1921, a white mob attacked a predominantly Black area in Tulsa, killing hundreds of people and destroying the country’s wealthiest African American
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It’s Time We Have Uncomfortable Conversations About Race In America - Blavity
While we can search for more progressive ways to amplify the politics of race and privilege, nothing changes without the acceptance of a few unpopular truths and assuming accountability for that
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Number of working Black business owners falls 40 percent amid COVID-19
The number of working African American business owners in the United States plummeted more than 40 percent as the coronavirus shut down much of the economy — a far steeper drop than other racial groups experienced, according to an analysis confirming fears the pandemic would deepen inequalities in
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Pandemic Hits Black Business Owners Harder Than Other Racial Groups
A new report authored by a California economics professor has found that just as African Americans are dying disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is killing their businesses at a higher rate as
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Hardin: We've Protested, What's Next?
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Du Bois, W. E. B.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) dəbois´ [key], 1868–1963, American civil-rights leader and author, b. Great Barrington, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1890 M.A., 1891 Ph.D., 1895). Du Bois was an early exponent of full equality for African Americans and a cofounder (1905) of the
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Youth Have The Energy And Smarts To Sustain Protests, Says Dixon
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Garvey
As he wrote in The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, “Education is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization, and the advancement and glory of their own
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Spelman College
Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts womens college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta.[2] Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the fourth historically black female
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African American community due to the overwhelming majority of predominately white institutions of
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was a self-proclaimed nation of 11 secessionist slave-holding states of the United States, existing from 1861 to 1865. The Confederacy was originally formed by seven states – South
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Kenya: Top KCPE Candidate Scores 428 Marks, CS Machogu Announces
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The top candidate in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations had a mean score of 428 marks.
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Sanda Ojiambo: I will advance Kofi Annan’s vision
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Biography and Profile of Susan Rice
Name: Susan Elizabeth Rice Position: Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by then President-elect Barack Obama on December 1, 2008 Born: November 17, 1964 in Washington, DC Education: Graduated National Cathedral School in Washington, DC in 1982 Undergraduate: Stanford University, B.A.
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Meet the Black Republican Woman Trying to Unseat Civil Rights Icon John Lewis – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Fenty, Adrian M. (1970- )
Adrian Malik Fenty was born to Philip and Jan Fenty, an interracial couple, on December 6, 1970, in Washington, D.C.   Fenty’s parents were both runners and they owned the athletic shoe store Fleet Feet in Washington, D.C.  Fenty graduated from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Washington. While
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A Viral Black-owned Business Success And The Shortcomings Of Federal Pandemic Response
That it took a crowd-sourced campaign to save their livelihood — as trillions of dollars were coursing through the economy through federal relief efforts — underscored a reality faced by many Black-owned small businesses through the current
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South Africa: Data Lockdown - Tension Simmers As Questions Are Raised About Access to COVID-19 Information
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Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National
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