Black History Month 2014

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Black History Month 2014

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Movie: Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

JAN CAREW - Black Seminoles - pt. 1

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Voices from the corporate community on George Floyd’s murder

On May 25, George Floyd, a Black man, died in Minneapolis after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by the knee of a White law enforcement

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Jump! is a studio album by Van Dyke Parks. It was released in 1984 on Warner Bros.. The album (and its accompanying childrens book) is a retelling of Joel Chandler Harriss Uncle Remus tales. Parks mixes numerous musical styles. On Jump! these include bluegrass, Tin Pan Alley, 1930s jazz, and

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African-American women in computer science

Black women were among early pioneers in computing in the United States. Generally they were hired as mathematicians to do technical computing needed to support aeronautical and other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson, who had a career of decades at NASA.[1] Among her

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When the Protesting Ends – Do You Just Go Home? – Free Press of Jacksonville

NNPA NEWSWIRE By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor — For the last 400 years in America, Black people have been considered to be a second-class citizen because of the color of their

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

Warren’s outreach to Black voters could help VP standing

Shortly before Elizabeth Warren joined their virtual happy hour on a recent Friday afternoon, the five African American women co-hosting the #TheSipHour mused about calling her by her first

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

African-American leftism

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Chicago Children’s Choir honors Juneteenth with virtual concert | The Crusader Newspaper Group

A New Freedom: Black Voices Honoring Juneteenth in a Time of Struggle

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Viola Davis Regrets Role in 'The Help'

Acclaimed actress Viola Davis recently expressed regret over her role in the 2011 film "The Help," saying she felt like she betrayed herself for doing a movie that caters primarily to white audiences.

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Source: The Washington Informer

Back-to-Africa movement

The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements ranging

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Josephine Baker

Who Was Josephine

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Black players in professional American football

Details of the history of black players in professional American football depend on the professional football league considered, which includes the National Football League (NFL); the American Football League (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969 which eventually merged with the NFL; and the

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Category:African and Black nationalism

Nationalism of sub-Saharan Africa, and Black diaspora movements in the New World, and, to a lesser extent, Nationalist sentiment in the Black communities of Europe and the Middle

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“You Guys Are Just Going To Have To Wait And See:” Towanda Braxton Plays Coys Following Pregnancy Rumors

There are rumors floating around that Towanda Braxton is pregnant with her third child, but when asked whether or not she’s expecting, the mom of two chose to play

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Source: MadameNoire

Gov't wants to lease Holywell land

GOVERNMENT is seeking to lease a seven-acre plot of land at Holywell in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, a protected area which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator: An Appreciation in Guyanese-Diasporic-Quarantine

The announcement Tuesday morning (May 19th) that Kaie Kellough had won Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize—one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world—for his mesmerizing poetry collection, Magnetic Equator —marks an historical moment in the literary histories of diasporic Guyanese and

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Black pride is a movement in response to dominant white cultures and ideologies that encourages black people to celebrate black culture and embrace their African heritage.[1] In the United States, it was a direct response to white racism especially during the Civil Rights Movement.[2] Related

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

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History of African Americans in Detroit

In 2002, within the city of Detroit there were 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of the population.[1] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people.[2] Southfield had a black population

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Jada Pinkett Smith Admits Dating August Alsina During Will Smith Separation

The actor discussed the affair with her husband on her Facebook Watch series, "Red Table Talk."

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NGO accuses France of starting Mozambique 'climate bomb'

Friends of the Earth accused France on Monday of planting a "ticking climate bomb" in Mozambique, where French oil giant Total is developing a mega-project to exploit natural

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Source: https://www.news24.com

African Americans in New York City

African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City. The majority of the African American population largely claims descent from West and Central Africa by way of importation to the American South via the Atlantic slave trade (and a rarer presence of those

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Black Belt (U.S. region)

The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States. The term originally described the prairies and dark fertile soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi.[1] Because this area in the 19th century was historically developed for cotton plantations based on enslaved African-American

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Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was a black-American religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, as well as his own son, Warith Deen

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Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. Harris wanted to show

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WEAA’s Womack to be Laid to Rest | Afro

Tyra Womack, who was known to listeners of WEAA as Tyra Phillips, will be laid to rest on June

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Fame (Irene Cara song)

Fame is a pop song, written by Michael Gore (music) and Dean Pitchford (lyrics),[1] released in 1980 that achieved chart success as the theme song to the Fame film and TV series.[1] The song was performed by Irene Cara, who played the role of Coco Hernandez in the original movie. It won the Academy

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Gay rights victory

In Bostock v. Clayton County, the United States Supreme Court ruled, this week, that the federal employment discrimination statute (Title VII) barred discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in places of

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights

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History of African Americans in the Canadian Football League

African Americans have played prominent roles in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and its precursors since 1946. In many cases black Americans have been able to pursue professional football opportunities in the CFL that were for one reason or another unavailable in the United States. Especially

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Essence survey: Black mothers worry their children will be victims of police brutality

– 76% of Black mothers worry their children will be victims of police brutality

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

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