African American History and Women Timeline 2000-

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• (July) Venus Williams became the first African American to win the womens title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson (1957-58)

• Condoleezza Rice named as the next Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold that position

• Arkansas named a state holiday for Daisy Bates, the first state to name a holiday for an African American woman

• Ruth Simmons, Brown University, became the first African American president of an Ivy League university

• (March 24) Halle Berry became the first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar

• (May 22) Bobby Frank Cherry found guilty of murder in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham which killed four African American girls, ages 11-14

• (January) bus, made famous by Rosa Parkss refusal to give up her seat, added to exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, Michigan

• (June 23) Supreme Court upheld affirmative action used in university admissions

• (September) Carol Moseley Braun announced her candidacy for US president, the second African American woman to run for that office

• (January 14) Carol Moseley Braun dropped her race for the US presidency

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First inauguration of Barack Obama

The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe

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Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson was the first black American to play tennis ar the U.S. Open in 1950.

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Jan

1950

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Time to fight RIGHT!

Now “Big Floyd,” as he was affectionately called by family and friends, is dead, Chauvin is facing charges and the American “justice” system is under attack by angry protesters who are all “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” as Fannie Lou Hamer famously

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who was born on the 4th February 1913. She was popularly known as “The first lady of civil rights” and the “mother of the freedom movement”. She became prominent after she refused to move from her

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Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Mothers of the Movement Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act

Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of Black, Brown, Native, and Asian American people and have put up unnecessary roadblocks to the

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Bolton Book: Judge rules Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it

In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in

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Rice, Condoleezza (1954- )

Condoleezza Rice has earned distinction as a scholar, expert on international politics, and with her appointments as the first African American woman National Security Advisor and Secretary of State of the United

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Nov

1954

But ‘democracy’ is not breathing in Sierra Leone

And as expected of the “Falamakata” syndrome which is very much associated with low self-esteemed Sierra Leoneans, many SLPP supporters and apologists have suddenly become human rights activists

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Top African-American Women in Tennis

In 1950, Althea Gibson made history when she became the first African-American to play in an international tennis tournament. Six years later, Gibson made history when she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title at the French

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Aug

1927

Mike Pence refuses to acknowledge 'Black lives matter' in TV interview

(Photo by Brendan Smialowski

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'Selma' director Ava DuVernay among three Freedom Award recipients

The slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, the “I Have a Dream” speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the “Black Lives Matter” meme of today’s protesters all testify to the power of words in the struggle for social justice in

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Nearly 500 Small Businesses File Bankruptcy Using Increased Eligibility Limit Since February

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Silk Celebrates the Power of Plants with Venus Williams and DJ Khaled

Silk launches its new “Do Plants” Initiative, which celebrates the good things that can happen when people make plants part of their everyday

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A Biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. was in Miami when he had a meeting with film producer Abby Mann, who was contemplating a movie biography about King. Mann asked the 37-year-old minister how the movie should end. King replied, It ends with me getting

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Tina Knowles-Lawson Leads Call To Urge Lawmakers To Pass Legislation Addressing Voter Suppression In Black Communities - Blavity

Led by Tina Knowles-Lawson, the mothers of Black people lost to police violence have joined forces with other celebrities to sign a letter calling on congressional leaders to put their differences aside and take tangible steps in addressing some of the country's most pressing issues by the passing

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom

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Ruth J. Simmons

Ruth J. Simmons was the President of Brown University. In this role, Simmons made significant strides in improving Brown University’s standing as one of the world’s finest research universities during her tenure from 2001 to

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Key African American Women in Sports

Venus Williams (born 1980) and Serena Williams (1981) are sisters who have dominated the sport of womens tennis. Together they have won 22 Grand Slam titles as singles. They competed against each other in the Grand Slam finals eight times between 2001 and 2009. Each has won an Olympic gold

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Jazz greats share their quarantine playlists

Ella Fitzgerald in Berlin: Mack the Knife

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Ruth Simmons: First Black President of an Ivy League Institution

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U.S. Supreme Court Protects California’s Dreamers – Voice and Viewpoint

On June 18, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

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Rosa Parks

Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey

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Dec

1955

Meghan and Harry sign with same agency that reps the Obamas for public speaking

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty

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(1988) Rev. Jesse Jackson, “Keep Hope Alive.”

In 1988, Rev. Jesse Jackson made a second unsuccessful run for the Democratic Nomination for President, losing out to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Jackson, however, gave another major address at the Democratic National Convention which met in Atlanta, Georgia. The address, delivered on

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The True Plight of Black Americans

Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and

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Venus Williams Says Her Greatest Victory Didn’t Come On The Tennis Court

Venus Williams, like every other professional tennis player, will not compete at Wimbledon this year as the coronavirus pandemic has cancelled the annual championship event for the first time since World War

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African-American Tennis Champion Althea Gibson Quotes

Althea Gibson, a sharecroppers daughter raised on welfare mostly in New York City, learned tennis through public clubs. She rose to become the first African-American to play at in the Forest Hills and in the Wimbledon championships, and the first African-American to win either. Althea Gibson broke

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Juneteenth Vibes: A Family-Friendly Playlist Celebrating Blackness

Juneteenth is a national holiday celebrating the freedom of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. Its name comes from the words “June” and

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This Day in History — June 26

1998: US President Bill Clinton opens a State visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years

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Carol Moseley-Braun

Name at birth: Carol Moseley

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