Alex Haley - Birthday

Africa: Some Lessons From the History of Epidemics in Africa

The history of endemic diseases, epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows, contrary to a stubborn belief, that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine - its theory, techniques, and modes of

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Source: allAfrica.com

NYPD commissioner asks protesters to stop violence against police

NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea speaks to the media during a press conference at City Hall on January 3, 2020 in New York

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Source: theGrio

Ananya spreads artistic wings

MULTI-TALENTED United States-based Zimbabwean fashion designer, actor and model Ananya Kouds has spread her wings into music becoming a new voice on the music scene as she seeks to discover more of her artistic

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Nicki Minaj, 6ix9ine troll LisaRaye and Usher in new song

NIcki Minaj and Tekashi 6ix9ine in the

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Spectrum Reach to deliver 50% match value on TV campaigns purchased for June and July as part of it's new "Partner Program"

Spectrum Reach’s Resources and Custom Solutions Readily Available to Help Businesses Rebuild

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Roy Jones Jr.

Roy Jones Jr. is an American boxer, born on the 16th of January, 1969 in Pensacola, Florida, USA. While also developing sequential interests in music and acting, Jones is most notably known as an all-time American boxer, winning a host of trophies to his name in an exciting career. What has

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'Get your knee off our necks,' activist Sharpton tells George Floyd memorial | New York Carib News

Delivering the eulogy at a memorial service inside a university chapel in Minneapolis, Sharpton said Floyd’s fate – dying at the hands of police, pinned to the ground under the knee of a white officer – symbolized a universal experience of police brutality for African

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Source: The New York Carib News

Minneapolis Cop Who Knelt On The Neck of George Floyd, Charged With Murder | Afro

By TIM SULLIVAN and AMY FORLITI, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published after his death in 1965 and became a best-seller; the book was co-written by Alex Haley, later the author of Roots… Malcolm X married Betty Sanders, later called Betty Shabazz, in 1958; they had six daughters together. Betty Shabazz died on 23 June 1997

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON’S EQUITRUST FUNDS OVER $100 MILLION IN PPP LOANS FOR MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES | Afro

May 18, 2020 (New York, NY) — Earvin “Magic” Johnson, majority owner of EquiTrust, the nation’s largest minority-owned insurance company, announced a $100 million partnership with MBE Capital Partners (MBECP), the largest certified minority-owned asset-based lender, and the National Action Network

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

(William) Manning Marable

May 13, 1950

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones is particularly known for his resonant basso voice and commanding presence. His early successes were in the New York theater, first in Shakespeares Othello and The Emperor Jones (both 1964), and, more famously, The Great White Hope, for which he won the 1969 Tony award. He started

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African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical

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Health Care Equipment Shortages Lead to Innovation, Conflict – Free Press of Jacksonville

At one point, more than 30% of U.S. healthcare workers had two weeks of N95 face masks, considered the standard for protection, remaining, and 22% had none at all, according to GetUsPPE.org, a grassroots organization working to source personal protective equipment for U.S. healthcare

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

Alarming Rise in Virus Cases as States Roll Back Lockdowns

NEW YORK (AP) — States are rolling back lockdowns, but the coronavirus isn’t done with the

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Source: Black America Web

Soul food

Soul food is a variety of cuisine originating in the Southeastern United States. It is common in areas with a history of slave-based plantations and has maintained popularity among the Black American and American Deep-South cotton state communities for centuries; it is now the most common regional

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Source: ThoughtCo

What Would Prince Think? People Imagine ‘The Purple One’ Reacting To Minneapolis Protests

The ongoing protests following the in-custody death of George Floyd have some of the country’s biggest cities rallying around Minneapolis by sparking their own demonstrations against police

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Source: NewsOne

Spike Lee Says It's Not 'Easy' Being a Knicks Fan After Owner James Dolan Gave Weak Response on George Floyd's Death

But the New York Knicks didn’t release a statement at first, which was the owner James

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Jamaicans in the US in for a mango treat this weekend

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Netflix removes AIDS documentary after Haitians protest | New York Carib News

After airing the ninth episode of its History 101 documentary series, Netflix removed it after angry protests from Haitian Americans on

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Source: The New York Carib News

First Black Greek-Letter Organiation

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was founded on December 4, 1906 on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary founders, known as the Jewels of the

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Scarborough, Danny (1947-1989)

Danny Lyon Scarborough made his mark in the world in two arenas, as an innovative, Emmy Award-winning choreographer/dancer, and as one of the first well-known African Americans to go public about having AIDS. Born on July 27, 1947, he grew up on a farm near Wake Forest, North Carolina. He was

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Police Murder of George Floyd Sparks Uprisings | Dallas Weekly

From the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Louisville, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New York City, and the bright lights of the Big Apple, African Americans are expressing outrage over the police killing of George Floyd, the

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Charged with crime of Karen-ing 'Amy Cooper Inspired' law backed by Gov. Cuomo

Although there have been many incidents of white people calling 911 on Black people who are merely trying to live, the catalyst for proposing such legislation came after Amy Cooper; a white woman called the police on Chris Cooper, a Black

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

COMMENTARY: Old, Sick and Incarcerated | Afro

Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Africa: The Curious Case of COVID-19 in Africa

Although Africa is yet to reach its peak, many countries are not seeing the exponential growth in case numbers, or in mortality rates as seen in other regions of the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Protests Large But Peaceful After New Charges in Floyd Case

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Demonstrations across the U.S. to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but mostly without the violence of previous nights on the eve of a Thursday memorial service for George Floyd that kicks off a series of events to mourn the man whose death empowered a national

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Source: Black America Web

The protests show that black Americans have been telling the truth about police brutality

The protests started in Minneapolis on 26 May, the day after a police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than eight

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Source: Global Current Affairs, Politics & Culture

Why Raising Kids To ‘Not See Color’ Doesn't Help Fight Racism

In response to just about any story about how to raise anti-racist children or about the pain Black parents feel having “the talk” with their young children before they feel ready often comes the familiar refrain: “I’m teaching my children that we don’t see

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Black and Blue Don’t Match: Police Officers Kill Another African American

African Americans hadn’t stopped grieving over the assassination of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia when a video surfaced out of Minnesota, showing a police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a subdued George

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