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A digital billboard in Times Square showing the number of deaths related to President Donald Trump’s slow coronavirus response, reached a grave milestone on Wednesday, as it ticked over to an estimated 50,000 preventable
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(1874) John Mercer Langston, “Equality Before the Law”
John Mercer Langston, a prominent abolitionist and civil rights activist, was one of the earliest African American officeholders in the United States when in 1855 he was elected town clerk of Brownhelm, Township, Ohio.  During the Civil War he recruited soldiers for the Massachusetts 54th Infantry
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Source: Black Past
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Sep
4
1841
Detroit Residents Age 60 or Over Set to Test for COVID-19 Without Prescription
Mayor Duggan announced starting Thursday the city will begin testing Detroiters age 60 or above for COVID-19 at the State
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Jackson, Maynard, Jr. (1938-2003)
Thegreat-grandson of slaves, Maynard Jackson, Jr. was born in Dallas, Texas, onMarch 23, 1938.  His father, MaynardJackson, Sr., was a leading figure in the 1930s campaign for black votingrights in Dallas and a founder of Democratic Progressive Voter’s League in 1936.  His mother, Irene Dobbs
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10 Great Databases for Slave Genealogy
Explore information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly transported over 12 million Africans to the Americas, including North America, the Caribbean, and Brazil, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. You can search by voyage, examine estimates of the slave trade, or search
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The doctors who cried wolf and other commentary
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(1895) John H. Smyth, “The African in Africa and the African in America”
Virginia-born John Henry Smyth, late 19th Century lawyer and diplomat, had spent nearly five years as the U.S. Minister to Liberia, representing both President Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur.  He was given an L.L. D. degree by Liberia College and appointed Knight Commander of the Liberia
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Feb
21
1883
Tuskegee boycott began
Tuskegee boycott began. Blacks boycotted city stores in protest against act of state legislature which deprived them of municipal votes by placing their homes outside city limits.
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Jun
17
1957
Booker T. Washington HS, STEM program launch COVID-19 video challenge
HOUSTON – Booker T. Washington High School (BTW) has teamed up with a nonprofit STEM program to help students and teachers manage the stress of COVID-19, with the cool off viral video challenge and
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(1864) Frederick Douglass On “The Mission Of The War”
On January 13, 1864, Frederick Douglass was invited to deliver a speech before the Women’s Loyal League at the Cooper Institute in New York City. He used the occasion to add his voice to the ongoing debate about the mission and meaning of the Civil War. In this address he reminded his audience that
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(1963) Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress"
On November 27, 1963 just five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, newly installed President Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses Congress for the first time.   His address appears
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1963
(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”
? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu
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9
2016
Liberia
Minister Lott Cary left the United States leading a group of freed slaves, most of whom were members of the American Colonization Society, to colonize a small portion of West Africa. This area became known as the Republic of Liberia in 1847.
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23
1821
Sheila G. Talton
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We Must Protect the Right to Vote in the November Elections | Post News Group
Republicans are worried that voting by mail may increase turnout, particularly among low-income and minority
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(1869) John Willis Menard, “Speech Before the United States House of Representatives”
John Willis Menard, (1838-1893) was the first African American elected to Congress when on November 3, 1868 he received the majority of votes to fill the unexpired term of Louisiana Second District Congressman James Mann. On the strength of the vote Menard went to Washington to be seated. However
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Oil Trade: Claude Wilfrid Etoka, CEO of SARPD OIL, Wins the Prize of « Builder of the African Economy
The CEO of Société Africaine de Recherche Pétrolière et de Distribution (SARPD OIL), Claude Wilfrid Etoka, received last Thursday the award of « Africa Economy Builder » during a ceremony held in Abidjan (Côte
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Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons
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(1855) William C. Nell, “The Triumph Of Equal School Rights In Boston”
In September 1855, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled in Boston v. Roberts that a separate school could not be maintained at taxpayer expense by the city of Boston. This decision marked the first significant victory in what would be a 99 year struggle to end de jure segregation culminating in
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Source: Black Past
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Coleman, Michael B. (1954- )
Michael B. Coleman is the first African American Mayor of Columbus, Ohio.  Coleman was born on November 18, 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana to John Coleman, a medical doctor, and Joan Coleman, a local civil rights activist.  His family relocated to Toledo when Michael turned
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Nov
18
1954
Black, James
Black, James, 1823–93, American temperance leader. A Pennsylvania lawyer, he was active in state and national temperance work. His plan for a National Publication House was adopted by the National Temperance Convention (1865). In 1872, as presidential nominee of the Prohibition party, he gained
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Africa: Lessons in Explaining Viruses to the Public - Rely On the Science
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Black populism
Following the collapse of Reconstruction, African Americans created a broad-based independent political movement in the South: Black
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Malik Yusef raised more than $10,000 to help slow COVID-19 behind bars
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GECOM cannot escape the accusation of fraud and must investigate
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John W. Davis
John W. Davis , in full John William Davis (born April 13, 1873, Clarksburg, W.Va., U.S.—died March 24, 1955, Charleston, S.C.), conservative Democratic politician who was his party’s unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States in
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Mar
24
1955
House Democrats to Unveil Plan to Distribute $1,200 Stimulus Checks in New $3 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Fund – Free Press of Jacksonville
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(1895) Booker T. Washington, "The Atlanta Compromise Speech"
On September 18, 1895 Booker T. Washington gave an address to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition which became known as the “Atlanta Compromise Speech.” The address appears
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Sep
18
1895
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