African American History (slavery)

(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”

Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1878), was one of the earliest black abolitionist speakers. Born in Salem, Massachusetts to free black parents, John and Nancy Remond, Charles became an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1838 and traveled with William Lloyd Garrison to the World

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Source: Black Past

Jul

9

1841

Remote working set to stay post pandemic

An explosion in remote working owing to the coronavirus pandemic could see companies slash office space, saving them money but not necessarily improving productivity among staff, according to

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Ngugi wa Thiong’o , original name James Thiong’o Ngugi (born January 5, 1938, Limuru, Kenya), East Africa’s leading novelist, whose popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, he adopted

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Source: Brittanica

Jan

5

1938

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. - History

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male

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Source: Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”

Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University. Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School. After graduation he practiced in Boston. By the 1880s Grimke

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Source: Black Past

Brooks, Dowrich tune up with fifties

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Shamarh Brooks and wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich redeemed themselves with timely half-centuries on the final day of the three-day warm-up match here yesterday, to taste form ahead of the opening Test against

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone was an African-American singer, pianist and civil rights activist. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was born in Tryon, North Carolina to Mary Kate Waymon and John Divine Waymon. She was the sixth of seventh children and the family was quite poor when Simone was growing

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Source: Black History Resources

Sentamu, John (1949- )

In 2005, John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was installed as the Anglican Church’s Archbishop of York. Sentamu was born on June 10, 1949, the sixth of 13 children of Rev. John and Ruth Walakira in a village outside Kampala, Uganda. Taught by British missionaries and expatriates who encouraged his

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Source: Black Past

Jun

10

1949

Harriet Tubman Biography: Later Years

Previous: 3: Civil War Service: Nurse, Scout, Spy

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Source: ThoughtCo

Mar

10

1913

Protest spreads to Europe

LONDON, England (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in London yesterday against police violence and racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off days of unrest in the United

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Zephaniah, Benjamin (1958 - )

Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, playwright, novelist and activist, was born on April 15, 1958, the first of eight children, in Birmingham, England. Zephaniah grew up in Wandsworth until the age of nine when his mother, a Jamaican nurse, fled his father, a postman from Barbados. Leaving behind his twin

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Source: Black Past

Apr

15

1958

Brixton Riots (April 10-12, 1981)

The Brixton Riots of April 10-12, 1981, described as the first serious riots of the 20th century in England, were the first large scale racial confrontations between black British youth and white British police. The rioting was sparked by antagonism between black youths and the

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Source: Black Past

Musicians Playing Through the Lockdown, to One Listener at a Time

But here on a hill above Stuttgart, a virtuoso musician was playing a piece — and only Claudia Brusdeylins, a 55-year-old publicist for a renewable energy research group, could hear it. “I just felt recognized,” Ms. Brusdeylins said later.

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Abolitionism

Anti-slavery redirects here. For the British NGO working for the eradication of slavery, see Anti-Slavery

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Source: ThoughtCo

Aug

28

1833

Protesters Topple British Slave Trader Statue During Anti-Racism Demonstration

Protesters in Bristol, England, tore down the statue of an infamous slave trader Sunday and threw it into nearby Bristol

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Source: Stories About Black History

Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson , (born March 7, 1929, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 12, 2014, London, England), South African-born novelist and short-story writer who wrote with both humour and pathos of the troubled land of his birth and of his eastern European Jewish heritage, though in his later work he

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Source: Brittanica

Jun

12

2014

Cameron seeking to become ICC chairman

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Dave Cameron confirmed Friday he will be seeking to become the next head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and will be asking Cricket West Indies (CWI), which he led for three terms, to back his

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Refused to Fight Against the U.S.

Richard Seavers, a Black Boston seaman who entered the British navy prior to the outbreak of the War of 1812, refused to fight against the United States and was therefore sentenced to England's Dartmoor Prison.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Black Chemists - African American History

Black scientists, engineers, and inventors have made important contributions to the science of chemistry. Learn about black chemists and chemical engineers and their projects. The focus is on African American

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Source: ThoughtCo

African American History and Women Timeline

What have African American women contributed to American history? How have they been affected by historical events? Find out in the timeline, which includes

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Source: ThoughtCo

COVID-19: South African nurse dies in the UK

A South African nurse working for the UK’s national health service (NHS) who died after contracting the new coronavirus was planning to return to her home country next

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Amina, African Warrior Queen of Zazzau

Known for: warrior queen, extending territory of her people. While stories about her could be legends, scholars believe she was an actual person who ruled in what is now the Zaria province of

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Burleigh, Harry Thacker (1866-1949)

Harry Thacker Burleigh was the first and one of the most influential of the African American composers who emerged in the U.S. after the Civil War. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1866, Burleigh showed an early passion for music and sang in local church choirs, but was unable to afford formal lessons

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Source: Black Past

Sep

12

1949

BATSA, Dlamini-Zuma set to face off in court next week over cigarette ban

In her court papers, Dlamini-Zuma controversially argued that the economic damage from the cigarette ban was being partially mitigated by a flourishing illegal market - representing economic

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Roland Hayes, Vocal Artist

Roland Hayes, who gained national and international fame as a classical concert artist, launched his career in Boston's Symphony Hall in 1917. He lived, studied, and worked in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, from 1912 until his death in 1977. In 1921 the noted tenor gave a command performance

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

'I have no regrets', says Toronto Police Chief of Jamaican heritage

(Jamaica Gleaner) TORONTO’S POLICE chief, Mark Saunders, surprised many with the announcement that he will retire from the service on July 31 – eight months before his contract is set to

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Mali: Village Life in Modern Africa - Review of Camila Toulmin's Land, Investment and Migration - Thirty-Five Years of Village Life in Mali

The book's story is told through 35 years of one Sahelian village in the north of Mali, Dlonguebougou - DBG as it is

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Source: allAfrica.com

CWI special tribute to World Cup heroes of 1975 and 1979

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies yesterday saluted the heroes of the famous Cricket World Cup triumphs of 1975 and

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Brooks hails impact of warm-up fixture following half-century

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Rookie Shamarh Brooks believes the opening three-day warm-up game was critical for West Indies’ batting group in becoming acclimatised to English conditions, especially since it was their first taste of competitive action since arriving here two weeks ago for next

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Sommersett, James (c1741-c1772)

James Sommersett was the subject of a landmark legal case in Great Britain, which was the first major step in imposing limits on Trans-Atlantic African slavery. Sommersett entered the pages of history when in 1771, he fled his North American owner, Charles Stewart, while both were living in

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Source: Black Past

Jun

22

1772

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