You may also like

Drug convict loses again
Outlining the background of the case, the Appeal Court noted that on October 5, 2011 the Assets Recovery Agency had brought civil proceedings against Nembhard in the Supreme Court, seeking a civil recovery order and restraint order pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) against certain
Read more
Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
African diaspora in the Americas
The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between
Read more
Source: BlackHistory.com
Ford urges Governor Pritzker to push for small business redesign funds | The Crusader Newspaper Group
State Representative La Shawn K. Ford (D-CH) urges JB Pritzker to advocate for federal dollars for business infrastructure changes due to the
Read more
Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group
Trump suspends travel from Brazil
US President Donald Trump on Sunday suspended travel from Brazil, which has emerged as a major new hotspot in the coronavirus pandemic, the White House
Read more
Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME
Former military chief warns Trump drifts from constitution | New York Carib News
Colin Powell, former top military officer and diplomat under Republican presidents accused Donald Trump on Sunday of drifting from the US constitution and said he will vote for Democrat Joe
Read more
Source: The New York Carib News
Chisholm, Shirley (1924-2005)
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, an advocate for the rights of people of color and for womens rights, became in November 1968 the first black woman elected to the United States Congress.  Four  years later she became the first black person to seek a major party’s nomination for the U.S. presidency
Read more
Source: Black Past
WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trials over safety concerns
The World Health Organization says it is temporarily halting its clinical trials that use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients over published concerns that the drug may do more harm than
Read more
Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
The Culinary Journey of Chef Who Cooked for Presidents
The Culinary Journey of Chef Who Cooked for Presidents
Read more
Source: Business Daily
Sponsored by Intellitech
Covid-19 prevention trial of hydroxychloroquine to resume
A global trial designed to test whether the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent infection with Covid-19 is to restart after being approved by British
Read more
Source: The East African
Covid-19 wrap: 1 127 new US deaths, Wuhan lab had '3 live bat coronaviruses' and DRC denies manipulation
Beijing – The Chinese virology institute at the centre of US allegations it may have been the source of the Covid-19 pandemic has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new global contagion, its director has
Read more
Source: https://www.news24.com
Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Philip Emeagwali
The early life of Philip Emeagwali seemed destined for poverty in his native land of Nigeria. He was the oldest of nine children and his father, who worked as a nurse’s aide, earned only a modest income. As a result, at age 14, Philip was forced to drop out of school in Onitsha. Because he had
Read more
Source: Black History Resources
Sponsored by Pride Academy
Nov
26
2012
St. George’s, Grenada (1649- )
St. George’s is the capital of Grenada, an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The city has an estimated population of 4,300 people in a nation of 105,897 people (2012). St. George’s is positioned on the island’s southern coast on a small peninsula that has a shallow exterior bay
Read more
Source: Black Past
Two more Trump campaign staff get Covid-19
Two more members of US President Donald Trump's campaign staff who helped organise his weekend election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus, the campaign said
Read more
Source: The East African
Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
J'can calls on UK to drop diplomacy in dealing with racism, inequality
ONE of Britain's recognised influential blacks — Jamaican Paulette Simpson — has called for a movement away from heavy reliance on diplomacy to treat with racism and inequality in
Read more
Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Andrew Brimmer appointed to Fed. Reserve Bd.
Andrew Brimmer becomes the first African-American governor of the Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Johnson
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Feb
10
1966
Top General Apologizes For Role In Trump's Photo During Protests
General Mark Milley, a top military official, has apologized for participating in President Trump's walk to St. John's Church near the White House, after law enforcement forcibly cleared
Read more
Source: Stories About Black History
Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
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
Read more
Source: BlackHistory.com
Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
U.S. Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands, consisting of nine main islands and some 75 islets, were explored by Columbus in 1493. They were originally inhabited by the Carib Indians. Since 1666, England has held six of the main islands; the remaining three (St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John), as well as about 50 of the
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Trump and Biden’s debates will be good theater, but not much more - The Bay State Banner
Biden or Trump will win the White House if voters really feel that one can better handle the country’s economic and domestic mess than the other. That won’t come from a presidential
Read more
Source: The Bay State Banner
Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Trump wants Biden to take drug test before first debate
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - US president Donald Trump says he will call for a 'drug test' for himself and Joe Biden before the first presidential debate, but did not offer any evidence for his suspicions about his Democratic opponent.Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner
Read more
Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Trump awaiting results after top aide contracts COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he and first lady Melania Trump are awaiting coronavirus test results after a top aide he spent substantial time with this week tested positive for COVID-19. “Whether we quarantine or...
Read more
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Racist President Wears Mask Publicly After 132K Die In U.S. From Coronavirus
Donald Trump, the racist President of the United States, finally work a mask in public yesterday (July 11). It happened to finally happen only after 132,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the nation. 
Read more
Source: The Urban Daily
ULIMWENGU: Two books come to bite Trump when only polls matter
There is something pathological about the way Africans relate to books that would have comforted Trump these past two
Read more
Source: The East African
Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
John Matisonn | Americans set to turn on Trump as SA turned on Zuma
American civil society has turned on Donald Trump just as South Africans turned on Jacob
Read more
Source: https://www.news24.com
UN virus therapy trial pauses hydroxychloroquine testing
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that it will temporarily drop hydroxychloroquine — the anti-malarial drug US President Trump says he is taking — from its global study into experimental COVID-19 treatments, saying that its experts need to review all
Read more
Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
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
Read more
Source: BlackHistory.com
Senegal to continue treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine
Senegal will continue treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, a senior health official said on Wednesday, despite a recent study indicating that the anti-malarial drug is ineffective and potentially
Read more
Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Trump’s photo-op with a Bible is contemptuous
In a made-for-propaganda-TV moment, he led a bizarre parade from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church down the street on the evening of June 1, where he waited for someone in his entourage to hand him
Read more
Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com
Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Carney, William H. (1840-1908)
Home › African American History
Read more
Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Benjamin Mays, President of Morehouse College
Benjamin Mays, President of Morehouse College, dies.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by BARBinc
Mar
28
1984
More from Unpublished Black History
Being Bobby Brown Episode 1
Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown "Something In Common" [Soul Train Music Awards 1994]
Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans
A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books
Buffalo Shooting Highlights Rise of Hate Crimes Against Black Americans
On Race, Herschel Walker’s Offer of Absolution Divides Georgia Voters
Brooklyn Street Named for Robert E. Lee Will Now Honor Black War Hero
Pentagon Taps Next Commander of U.S. Forces in Africa
Opinion | How Democrats Can Hang on to Congress in 2022
A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.
H.B.C.U.s Have a Spirit All Their Own. Pop Culture Is Paying Attention.
The Buffalo Shooter’s Manifesto Doesn’t Offer Clues. Only Self-Mythologizing. - The New York Times
At the Top of His Sport, Mountain Runner Focuses on the Next Generation
Buffalo’s Children Confront the Reality of Racist Hate
New Names Recommended for 9 Army Bases That Honor Confederate Leaders
When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village
An Exhibition on Cancer Puts Hope for the Future on Display
The Goal: ‘To Dream Bigger and Change the World’
Brittney Griner’s Supporters Have a New Strategy to Free Her: Make Noise
To Change Baseball, an Ace Needs a New Title
Ronnie Hawkins, Rockabilly Road Warrior, Is Dead at 87
What’s on TV This Week: ‘Julia’ and the MTV Movie & TV Awards
How to Watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A Gay Refugee’s Confrontation With America
White and Black: A Historian Traces African-American Influences in the United States
Harvard’s President Lawrence Bacow Will Step Down Next Year
Newly Published, From Quarantine Love to Hemingway
These Are Not Larry Bird’s Celtics. And That’s Just Fine.
Easton, Pa.: A Gritty River Town Being Transformed
A federal judge blocks Louisiana’s congressional map, calling it a racial gerrymander.
Building a Juneteenth Menu for the 21st Century, One Recipe at a Time
A Broken Redistricting Process Winds Down, With No Repairs in Sight
Samella Lewis, Artist and Activist for Art World Diversity, Dies at 99
Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business
What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers.
School’s Catholic Title in Peril Over Pride and Black Lives Matter Flags
Los Angeles County Votes to Return Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family
Opinion | Democrats Are Having a Purity-Test Problem at Exactly the Wrong Time
Hershel Williams, a Hero in the Battle for Iwo Jima, Dies at 98
What To Do in New Bedford, the Old Whaling Capital Outside Boston
Opinion | Read These Books About the Black Experience: One Old, One New, One Coming Soon
Marlin Briscoe, Pioneering Black Quarterback, Dies at 76
‘Bodies They Ritual’ Review: Plush Robes and Cults
Opinion | No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution
Our Flag Was Still There
A Secret City With a Secret African American History
Sharks Hire Mike Grier as N.H.L.’s First Black General Manager
Crypto Crashed. Wall Street Won.
Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet
At the Laundromat Project, Artists Are Ambassadors of Joy and Activism

American Civil War Facts

Spirituality Facts

Lifestyle Facts

Facts About Women