Al Davis - Birthday

Benjamin and Sarah Roberts Lawsuit

Benjamin Roberts sued the Boston School Committee in 1849 for denying his daughter Sarah admission to an all-white Boston school. His action rallied school integration forces in the early 1850s, leading to the first official school desegregation in Boston in 1855. At that time the Massachusetts

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Eid al-Fitr: One of the happiest times for Muslims will be a somber affair, just like the month that preceded it | The Atlanta Voice

In New York, the epicenter of the virus in the United States, Eid will be especially isolating this

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Black Population 1708-1752

Throughout the colonial era Boston contained the largest number of Blacks in Massachusetts. The flourishing slave trade and increased birthrate expanded the Black population from 400 in 1708 to 1,374 in 1742. In 1708 there were 33 free Blacks in Boston. In 1742 one-third of all Blacks in

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Agrippa Hull: Revolutionary Patriot - Birthday

Said to be the son of an African prince, Agrippa Hull was born free in Northampton, Massachusetts on March 7, 1759.

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Source: Black Past

Mar

7

1759

Knox, Clinton E. (1908–1980) - Birthday

Knox was born May 5, 1908, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Source: Black Past

May

5

1908

Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Source: theGrio

Dual Political Roles

Two African-American women have held simultaneously two elected political offices. Sandra Graham of Cambridge served as City Councilor in her city from 1971 to 1989 and served as a state representative in the Massachusetts legislature from 1977 to 1988. Shirley Owens-Hicks, while serving on the

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

State Housing Board First

In 1959 Frank Morris became the first African-American senior manager of a state agency in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when he was appointed to the position of director of the State Housing Board. Starting as a junior planner with the Board in 1948, Frank Morris had one of the

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Wealthy hospitals get billions in COVID-19 money, says new report

(Credit: Cleveland Clinic official

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Source: theGrio

The True Plight of African-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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Source: ThyBlackMan

For The First Time, Clarence Thomas Tells His Story on Television – Free Press of Jacksonville

Clarence Thomas, the famously silent jurist, tells his own life story in a new documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” which makes its national television debut May 18 on

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

New England Slave Trade

The year 1644 was a momentous date in the history of the New England slave trade. Before that time Massachusetts merchants had occasionally brought in Black Africans from the West Indies; but in that year Boston traders imported slaves directly from Africa, when an association of businessmen sent

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Gittens, Charles LeRoy (1928–2011) - Birthday

Gittens was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 31, 1928, one of seven children.

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Source: Black Past

Aug

31

1928

Wayne A. Budd, U.S. Attorney

Wayne A. Budd was nominated for U.S. Attorney by President George Bush in March 1989 and confirmed for the position by the U.S. Senate in September 1989. A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, he was the first African-American president of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1979-80) and headed New

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Two-front warriors: Remember the centuries of heroism of African-American soldiers

Johnson is a part of a long African American military tradition of exceptional devotion to a country that, through its history, denied blacks their rights and discriminated against and humiliated its black

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Source: New York Post

Prominent New Bedford Lawyer

Emmanuel Sullavou was a prominent lawyer in New Bedford in the late 1800s. Having graduated from Harvard in 1871, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1875. He served on the New Bedford City Council and as a clerk of the district court.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Pritzker launches contact tracing program for COVID-19 cases | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Governor JB Pritzker on Monday announced the launch of Illinois’ statewide contact tracing program for COVID-19 cases in two pilot counties as the state begins to fine-tune its latest weapon to fight the novel coronavirus

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

First Elected Black Woman

In 1952 Madeline D. Andrews was elected to the Medford School Committee. She was apparently the first Black woman elected to public office in Massachusetts.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

#BlackExcellence: 14-Year-Old Chicago Teen Dorothy Jean Tillman Earns Master’s Degree

According to People, 14-year-old Dorothy Jean Tillman recently earned a master’s degree in environmental science and sustainable engineering from Unity

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William E. B. DuBois

William E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive the Ph.D. degree from Harvard (1895). His thesis was on the African Slave Trade. DuBois was influenced by Boston's fiery and 'radical' civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter in

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

The Fight for School Equality

In 1787 Primus Hall and other Black leaders petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for equal school facilities for Black children.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

W. E. B. Du Bois - Birthday

Du Bois , in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.

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Source: Brittanica

Feb

23

1868

Black Student Loan Debt Should Be An Issue For All Of Us

Black people often end up in the demographic struggling to repay student loan debt for a variety of socio-economic reasons caused by systemic racism that wreaks havoc on generation after generation in a cruel cycle of poverty and resource

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Source: NewsOne

We need an independent police force to police the police. Periodt.

Historically, Black people have been tortured by police, lied on by police, and killed by them, and still we continue with this laughable system of police

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Source: theGrio

Electeds struggle with police funding

On Friday, Gov. Charlie Baker joined state Rep. Russell Holmes in a show of support for legislation that would require certification for police in Massachusetts, a measure widely seen as bringing accountability to law

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Council seeks curb on facial recognition

Boston city councilors are pushing to ban facial recognition, a surveillance software that disproportionately misidentifies people of color and may violate civil rights and basic

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Virtual performance series highlights Latinx voices

Four Latinx organizations in Boston — Amplify Latinx, Hyde Square Task Force, Cojuelos’ Productions and Ágora Cultural Architects — have come together to celebrate art and community through their online performance series “Cadencia Latina,” running through July

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Coronavirus Update: Economy or Public Health? Reopening States During the Pandemic Has Polarized Us

As the U.S. experiences increases in the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths, leaders remain divided on how to define and implement the way business and life should be conducted going

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Source: Black America Web

Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Source: theGrio

Taylor, Ruth Carol (1931- ) - Birthday

Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 27, 1931 to Ruth Irene Powell Taylor, a nurse, and William Edison Taylor, a barber.

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Source: Black Past

Dec

27

1931

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