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'Come Drag This Coon': Trina and Masika Kalysha Engage In a Twitter War After Rapper Calls George Floyd Protesters 'Animals'

Twitter is having a field day watching Masika Kalysha obliterate hip-hop star Trina for her recent provocative remarks about protesters in

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

Black Lives Matter: Powerful Photos Of The World Protesting Racism

Protesters joined again on Saturday to chant and hold signs reminding the world that Black Lives Matter as demonstrations and rallies against racism dotted countries across the map following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial

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(1905) Roscoe Conkling Bruce, “Freedom Through Education”

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Augustus Washington: One of the Most Talented and Successful Photographers in Connecticut

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OPINION If Black Lives Matter, Let’s Prove it By Fixing Our Schools – Free Press of Jacksonville

Americans have taken to the streets in the millions in protest, and after more than a week of demonstrations that have spread to hundreds of communities, we’ve seen action: A law that would require police training in understanding implicit bias and how to de-escalate conflict sailed through the

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

Anti-racism protesters rally around world, topple statue

LONDON, England (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets of European cities yesterday to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, with protesters in the English port of Bristol venting their anger at the country's colonial history by toppling a statue of a 17th-century slave

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

4 Pan-African Leaders You Should Know

John B. Russwurm was an abolitionist and co-founder of the first newspaper published by African-Americans, Freedoms

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SA schools say it’s all systems go

Teachers’ unions and school governing bodies told City Press this week that progress had been made by the department of education to deliver the required safety materials for

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ESPN's ‘The Last Dance’ shows Jordan's first retirement and Pippen's growth | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The critically acclaimed documentary “The Last Dance,” the story of legendary basketball player Michael Jordan and the 1997-1998 World Champion Chicago Bulls, debuted episodes 7 and 8 on Sunday night, May 10, on the ESPN

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms And Florida Rep. Val Demings Join Joe Biden’s Shortlist Of VP Contenders

After Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race, MadameNoire came up with our own list of powerful political women who we thought might make a good Vice Presidential candidate, for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential

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Mark Wahlberg’s Past Hate Crimes Resurface After Tweeting “Black Lives Matter” In Honor Of George Floyd

Actor Mark Wahlberg is being called to the carpet this week again after a post about George Floyd brought his his disturbing past involving hate crimes to the

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Source: MadameNoire

COVID-19 Infection rates among young people in the South and West drastically increases | The Atlanta Voice

The major thrust of new coronavirus cases in the United States is in the South and West, where officials say more young people are ignoring social distancing measures and testing

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Houston, Charles Hamilton (1895-1950)

Charles Hamilton Houston, a renowned civil rights attorney, was widely recognized as the architect of the civil rights strategy that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education. He was also a mentor to Thurgood Marshall who successfully litigated the pivotal Brown

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COMMENTARY: ENOUGH

The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black

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(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898

Long termed a “race riot,” the turmoil that enveloped Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 is now called an armed insurrection. White supremacists drove from power all of the black and white elected officials of this predominately African American city in what was believed to

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Nigeria: Govt Launches Licensing Round for Marginal Oilfields

The federal government has launched its first licensing round for marginal oilfields in nearly 20 years, the Department of Petroleum Resources

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(1963) Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon

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Oscar Robertson

Oscar Palmer Robertson is a retired professional basketball player. He was born on November 24, 1938 in Charlotte, Tennessee. He lived in a segregated housing project and attended a segregated high school called Crispus Attucks High School. He learned to play basketball at a very young age. His

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Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis

Stanton-King could use a dose of that reality herself, according to Dwight Bullard, political director of New Florida Majority, an organization that supports progressive Democrats and people of

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

King, Alveda (1951- )

Alveda King, a prominent conservative leader, evangelist, and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, as the first of five children of Alfred Daniel King and Naomi Barber King on January 22, 1951. Her father worked heavily in the civil rights movement and was a pastor

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The Black Unemployment Hits Highest Rate In Almost A Decade

According to a recent report by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the overall rate dropped to 13.3 % but the unemployment rate for African-Americans have risen to

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John Matisonn | Americans set to turn on Trump as SA turned on Zuma

American civil society has turned on Donald Trump just as South Africans turned on Jacob

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Dripped In Kente Cloth, Congressional Democrats Unveil Sweeping Police Reform Bill

On Monday members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unveiled a sweeping reform bill aimed at overhauling policing in the United

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Source: MadameNoire

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and minister. He was born as Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 to a 16 year high school student named Helen Burns out of wedlock. Jesse’s biological father was their 33 year old neighbor named Noah Louis Robinson who was married to someone

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First Black School Principal

Maria L. Baldwin of Cambridge became the first Black school principal in Massachusetts when she was appointed to head the Agassiz School in Cambridge in 1899. She remained in the position until 1922.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Stocks sink worldwide as coronavirus infections rise again

The recent stumble for U.S. stocks means they’re now 11% below their record set in February, after a furious rally had brought them back within 6% in the middle of last

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Aha- First Dynastic King of Egypt

Ka Ma Ma ha, or Narmer Mena (Menes of the Greeks), was born to a petty king of Upper Egypt (Southern Egypt) around 3200BC. Not much is known of Ahas father other than he was ruler in Egypts southern lands where the totemic symbol of the Horus-falcon was prevalent. Most probably Ahas family bore

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New Hampshire Mesothelioma Victims Center Appeals to a Navy Veteran with Mesothelioma in New Hampshire to Call for Direct Access to Attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste-Get a Much Better Compensation Result

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA, July 2, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The New Hampshire Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "We are appealing to a Navy Veteran or person in New Hampshire who just received news they have mesothelioma to please call 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of

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Mitt Romney joins Black Lives Matter protest

Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing him wearing a mask as he walked with Black Lives Matter protesters in

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