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Early History of African American Inventors
Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, is believed to have been the first African-American inventor to receive a patent for an invention. He was 30 years old when he was granted a patent for a dry-cleaning process. Jennings was a free tradesman and operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City. His
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Curtiss Cook is dapper, driven and dangerous in ‘The Chi’
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Beyonce drops surprise single ‘Black Parade’ on Juneteenth – Voice and Viewpoint
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Beyonce did not let Juneteenth pass without dropping one of her signature surprises _ a new single called “Black
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Entire women's pro softball team quits after GM's Trump tweet
According to the New York Times, an entire softball team quit the team in the middle of a series after its general manager, Connie May sent out an ill-advised tweet showing the women standing for the national anthem before
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(1837) Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”
Rev. Theodore S. Wright, (1797-1847) was born to free parents in Providence, Rhode Island. By the 1830s Wright was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Wright, a dedicated abolitionist, attended the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
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Houston Realtors To No Longer Use Term ‘Master’ When Describing Bedrooms
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L'Oreal to Remove Words Like 'Whitening' from Skin Products
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Gabrielle Union Shows Support To ‘Insecure’ Actress Who Slammed Racism In Hollywood
Gabrielle Union has been outspoken about racism and misogyny in the entertainment
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Defenders of Roosevelt Statue Converge on Natural History Museum
For more than a dozen years, Marion Reid, 77, had walked past the statue of Theodore Roosevelt on his way to work in information technology at the American Museum of Natural History, an employer that he said often failed to treat African-Americans with
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Detroit Cop SUV Plowed Through Protestors Because Of ‘Safety’ Concerns, Says Police Chief
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Wallace, NASCAR's Black Agent of Change, Doing 'What Feels Right'
He has brushed them off, especially the ones accusing Wallace or his No. 43 team of being involved in a hoax, of somehow being behind the garage door pulldown rope fashioned as a noose that was found in their garage stall at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway last
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Will America Fix the Race Problem?
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VP Mike Pence Says Black Lives Matter Wants Radical Left Agenda
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LENS & LINES: Legally speaking - racism has got to go!
Lawyers and supporters — about 200 strong — rallied and marched downtown on Wednesday morning. Organized by the Ben F. Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association, the Memphis Bar Association and the Association for Women Attorneys, the march was a way of saying time is up for racism in the
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Todman, Terence A. (1926-2014)
Named Career Ambassador, a title equivalent to a four-star general, U.S. ambassador to six different countries, Terence A. Todman was an outstanding diplomat in the service of the United States. He challenged the racial prejudice he encountered at the State Department, paving the way for hiring of
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Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi (ΚΑΨ) is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African-American membership. Since the fraternitys founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin. The fraternity
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`He is going to change the world’: Funeral held for Floyd
HOUSTON (AP) — George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial
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From ‘defund the police’ to its obvious next step
The protests triggered by the recent murders of George Floyd and other African Americans have produced widespread demands to “defund the
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EYAKUZE: It’s now Black Lives Matter vs All Lives Matter. Who
After looking at me in puzzlement, people that I asked took a moment and then talked about externalities—black isn’t a thing, it is a negative
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Kansas City Mayor Called N-Word In Text Saying He ‘Should Swing From A Tree’
That truth was on stunning display Monday in Kansas City, Missouri, after the mayor there revealed a series of racist text messages he received after issuing an order for everybody within city limits to wear a mask or face covering while out in
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Country Music Reckons with Racial Stereotypes and Its Future
Country artists, labels and country music organizations posted about Black Lives Matter on social media, participated in Blackout Tuesday or denounced racism
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TikTok Is Helping Diverse Students Break Into Songwriting With a New Summer Songwriting Academy – The Black Chronicle
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Jenny Slate Will No Longer Voice “Missy” on Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’
On Tuesday (Jun 24), voice actress Jenny Slate took to Instagram to announce that she would no longer be the voice of “Missy” the Black character on Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth, before adding that her decision was based on the fact that the role should be voiced by a Black
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African Americans in WW2
The second global war, also known as Second World War (WW2), occurred in 1939 and did not end till 1945. It is considered the world’s deadliest conflict in human history that claimed lives of millions of people upon political and military disagreements. The two opposing military alliances called
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Minority-Owned Miestro.com Paves Faster, Simpler Path for the Massive E-Learning Space Industry
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White Elderly Woman Asks Black Man to Wait Until She’s Done Shopping To Rob the Store- The Man Was Just Shopping
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(1841) Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice"
Frederick Douglass would eventually become one of the most skilled and powerful orators of his day.  In 1841, three years after he escaped slavery and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34-year-old Douglass gave a brief speech on a situation he had not anticipated, racial prejudice in Northern
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