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Another Black Church Destroyed

A Black church was destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia. This was the eighth church burned in Georgia since August 15.

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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — NNPA'S Stacy Brown Interviews Cosby Spokesman, Andrew Wyatt on the Plea for Cosby's Release

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Sunbelt States Rush To Line Up Hospital Beds, Not Barstools

By TAMARA LUSH and JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Stephen Foster , in full Stephen Collins Foster (born July 4, 1826, Lawrenceville [now part of Pittsburgh], Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1864, New York, N.Y.), American composer whose popular minstrel songs and sentimental ballads achieved for him an honoured place in the music of the United

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Source: Brittanica

Jul

4

1826

Elijah Muhammad

Name at birth: Elija Pool or Elijah Poole

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

History of the African Americans in Houston

The African American population in Houston, Texas has been a significant part of the cities community since its founding. As of 2010, John B. Strait and Gang Gong, authors of Ethnic Diversity in Houston, Texas: The Evolution of Residential Segregation in the Bayou City, 1990–2000, stated that of

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Source: ThoughtCo

Castrated Black Leaders.

Where are the “leaders” of the African-American

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Source: ThyBlackMan

LIVESTREAM — REPLAY — FIYAH!: Russell Simmons — Fireside Chats with the Black Press

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Pastors reach across racial divide for common ground, conciliation

The Rev. Daniel Johnson, associate pastor of Congregational Formation and Missions at Second Baptist Church in East Memphis, saw an opportunity to reach outside the church walls and make new friends on the other side of

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

President Trump deems churches ‘essential’, calls for churches to reopen – Black pastors are hesitant | The Mississippi Link

President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration deemed houses of worship “essential” and called on governors to allow churches to reopen amid the COVID-19

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Source: The Mississippi Link

St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church [Milwaukee] (1869- )

St. Mark African MethodistEpiscopal (AME) Church, the first African American church in Wisconsin, wasfounded in Milwaukee as the First African Methodist Episcopal Church by EzekielGillespie and seven other men and women. Gillespie desired to establish a “Church ofAllen,” referring to

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Source: Black Past

George Floyd gets a national send-off

“Time is out for empty words and empty promises,” said Reverend Al Sharpton at the nationally televised funeral of George Floyd Thursday afternoon in

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"

Controversial remarks drawn from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unpaid campaign advisor to Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, and his pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, emerged as a lingering issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. On March

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Source: Black Past

Mar

18

2008

The Lynching of James Byrd Jr.

However, the three White supremacists who murdered Byrd, Shawn Berry, 23, Lawrence Brewer, 31, and John King, 23, were so disdainful of Byrd’s humanity they left his remains sprawled throughout the sleepy town of Jasper, Texas in one of most heinous hate crimes in American

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church (1890- )

The Trinity African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in Utah. Trinity AME was organized in 1890 by Rev. T. Saunders when Salt Lake City was the capital of Utah Territory. The early date of founding reflects the presence of black non-Mormon

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Source: Black Past

The Church and The Movement Why The Faith Community Is Marching, Too – Part 1

As a youth growing up in Lynchburg, Va., I was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s which fostered many of the civil rights gains we have today as a result of mass demonstrations, protest marches, and finally, economic

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Father Divine (c. 1876 – September 10, 1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an African American spiritual leader[2] from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as the Messenger early in his life. He founded the

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Source: ThoughtCo

Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce names new CEO

Chamber Names New President and CEO

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

LIVESTREAM REPLAY — NNPA Partners with #Donate1Post to Help Black-Owned Businesses During COVID-19

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland (1785- )

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel A.M.E.), Baltimore lays claim to the designation as the oldest independent continuously operating African American church in the state of Maryland tracing its origins back to 1785 when a group of African Americans met at the Strawberry Alley

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Source: Black Past

Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn’t hide his past

About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

NAACP 'Black Media Speaks' forum omits voice of African-American newspapers

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy, black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Rayshard Brooks Memorialized At Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Family, friends, dignitaries, elected officials and community leaders gathered today to remember the life of Rayshard Brooks at Historic Ebenezer Baptist

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Adams, John H. (1927-- )

Clergyman and civil rights activist John Hurst Adams was born November 27, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina to Reverend E.A. Adams and homemaker Charity Nash Adams. John Adams graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Columbia, South Carolina and in 1947 earned an A.B. degree in history

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Source: Black Past

Nov

27

1927

What Happened To Elijah Weatherspoon? ‘Conflicting Stories’ Of Black Boater’s Death Prompt Questions

In fact, Weatherspoon’s death comes at a time when there have multiple suspected lynchings of Black and brown people nationwide amid protests against racism as well as police

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Source: NewsOne

Mass evictions are the next crisis; we must act now

If Congress doesn’t act to renew and strengthen these programs now, it could unleash a catastrophic wave of evictions across the country that would send the unhoused population skyrocketing – further destroying our economy in the

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

First Black Roman Catholic

James Augustine Healy, first Black Roman Catholic bishop in America, born to Irish planter and slave on plantation near Macon, Georgia.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

6

1830

Harrison, Samuel (1818-1900)

Samuel Harrison, a minister, political activist, and former slave, became one of Berkshire County, Massachusetts’s most ardent abolitionists. Harrison was born enslaved in Philadelphia in 1818 but he and his mother were freed in 1821. Shortly afterwards the widowed mother and her son moved to New

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Source: Black Past

LIVESTREAM REPLAY: Accessing COVID-19 Testing & Availability

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

African Baptist Church [Boston] (1805- )

Officially founded on August 8, 1805 by the Reverend Thomas Paul, The African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in Massachusetts. The first meeting of the congregants took place around 1800. Thomas Paul and Scipio Dalton formed the African Baptist Church after a group of black congregants

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Source: Black Past

Aug

8

1805

As COVID cases rise, White House seeks to scrap 'Obamacare' | The Atlanta Voice

The administration’s high court filing at 10:30 p.m. Thursday came the same day the government reported that close to half a million people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 have gotten coverage through

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

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