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Earl Christian Campbell is a professional American football player who played for the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints. He was born on March 29, 1955 in Tyler, Texas. He was the sixth of eleven children in his family. Their father died when he was very young. He began playing football at
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27
1991
(1987) Thurgood Marshall, “A Colorblind Society Remains an Aspiration”
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Source: Black Past
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15
1987
Scott, Dred (1795-1858)
Dred Scott, was an enslaved person noted mainly for the unsuccessful lawsuit brought to free him from bondage. The decision rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 in the Dred Scott case, said that no blacks slave or free were U.S. citizens and allowed slavery in all U.S. territories.  The
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Mar
6
1857
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah , (born 1945, Baidoa, Italian Somaliland [now in Somalia]), Somali writer whose rich imagination and refreshing and often fortuitous use of his adopted language made him the most significant Somali writer in any European
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Home Affairs approves essential travel for South Africans to other countries
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Social Movement
April 3, 1962. In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the Birmingham,AL, City Commission voted not to pay the citys $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP
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Apr
3
1962
Lockdown: DA supports reopening of schools, but will monitor closely to ensure safety
The Democratic Alliance says, while it supports the Department of Education's decision to reopen schools as the country grapples with Covid-19, it will be closely monitoring the implementation of plans to ensure they are ready, safe and
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
The Dred Scott v. Sandford case (1857) was the most important slavery-related decision in the United States Supreme Court’s history.  Coming on the eve of the Civil War, and seven years after the Missouri Compromise of 1850, the decision affected the national political scene, impacted the rights of
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Online Polls Will Not Determine Lagos Decision On Another Lockdown - Official
The Lagos State Government says its final decision on the possibility of another lockdown will not be based solely on the outcome of the online public polls on the
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Obama scheduled to speak at Let Freedom Ring ceremony
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Allow return of Carter Center - Canadian gov't official urges President
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St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )
St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830s a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural
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Oct
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Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Cancellation of Public Events Through August 31 | Afro
Mayor B ernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Cancellation of Public Events Through August 31
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Birmingham city schools ‘revamp’ plans, will hold in-person HS graduations
The Birmingham Board of Education will hold traditional, hold in-person high school graduation ceremonies for seniors the first week of June, the school system announced on
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Should schools reopen any time soon?
Kenyans have until five o’clock today to give their views to the National Covid-19 Education Response Committee that will advise Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha on whether schools should reopen on June 4 or the date be
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Exam decision expected on Monday - Cabinet to give verdict on CSEC/CAPE sittings
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Sagicor Group takes $5b COVID hit
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Mark Zuckerberg Weighs in on What a Remote Workforce Could Look Like for Facebook
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Perry, Julia Amanda (1924-1979)
Julia Amanda Perry was a prolific composer of neoclassical music during her relatively brief life.  Born on March 25, 1924 in Lexington Kentucky, she spent most of her early years in Akron, Ohio. Her father, Dr. Abe Perry, was a doctor and amateur pianist, who once accompanied the tenor Roland
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Mar
25
1924
Rwanda: Lawyers Protest Refusal By Ugandan Court to Recognise Rwanda Law Practice Diploma
The Ugandan high court recently ruled that a person who obtains a post graduate diploma in legal practice from Rwanda is not eligible to enroll as an advocate in Uganda, sparking criticism from the Rwanda Law
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Fourteenth Amendment
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughterhouse cases began process of diluting the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court said the Fourteenth Amendment protected federal civil rights, not Civil rights heretofore belonging exclusively to the states.
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Apr
14
1873
Chadian capital N'djamena to be quarantined for two weeks
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Who asserts must prove
I am perturbed by an article published online via websites and social media platforms as well as in (yesterday’s) edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption, “Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Sase
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June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage
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Donnie McClurkin Calls Trump’s Decision to Reopen Churches ‘reckless’ – Free Press of Jacksonville
American gospel music legend and Pastor Donnie McClurkin has faulted Donald Trump’s decision to reopen church buildings, saying the initiative is a “calculated” move by the head of state to win political favor from the faith-based community without regard to their
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