Blacks route a band of slave catchers

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Bill Cosby Appeal

In a significant legal victory for Bill Cosby, the state Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear the appeal of his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated

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Source: The Washington Informer

12 charged in St Thomas for breaching public gathering ban

Those arrested and charged

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Exeter Orthodontics Offers Affordable Invisalign Aligners and Braces in Easton

EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, June 18, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The cost of braces in Easton is kept low thanks to Exeter

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Security Perimeter Around White House Expanded By Several Blocks

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Source: Stories About Black History

Camille Cosby says White women Have History of False Claims Against Black men – Free Press of Jacksonville

“The #MeToo movement and movements like them have intentional ignorance pertaining to the history of particular white women — not all white women — but particular white women, who have from the very beginning, pertaining to the enslavement of African people, accused Black males of sexual assault

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

Bill Cosby’s Sex Crime Conviction Will Be Reviewed As Pennsylvania’s Top Court Accepts His Appeal

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah’s father was a goldsmith and his mother a retail trader. Baptized a Roman Catholic, Nkrumah spent nine years at the Roman Catholic elementary school in nearby Half Assini. After graduation from Achimota College in 1930, he started his career as a teacher at Roman Catholic junior

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Source: Brittanica

Our HBCUs: They Have Overcome And Will Do So Again.

I have every confidence that, like Harvard, flagship HBCUs such as Hampton and Howard Universities will adapt and continue to provide excellence in education and opportunities for the next generation to learn and develop the skills needed to compete in the domestic and global

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Pence Hits Pennsylvania To Talk Comeback At Challenging Time

That’s the difficult job Vice President Mike Pence undertook Friday as the Trump administration works to make voters feel better about the direction of the country amid a coronavirus pandemic and racial

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Fugitive on the run for four years apprehended

A Jamaican man who is wanted in the United States is set to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court today for extradition proceedings to

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Stanford, John (1938-1998)

John Stanford was the superintendent of Seattle Public Schools from 1995 until his untimely death from leukemia in 1998. He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania on the outskirts of Philadelphia and graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He joined

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Source: Black Past

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1998

'The Noose Was Real' - NASCAR releases photo from Talladega

Declaring “the noose was real,” NASCAR officials on Thursday released a photo of the rope found in the speedway garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation into whether he had been the target of a hate

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Harrowing Blame Game Over COVID-19 Toll In Nursing Homes | Afro

The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Locke, Alain (1886-1954) - Birthday

Alain Leroy Locke, a leading black intellectual during the early twentieth century and an important supporter of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 13, 1886 to Pliny Ishmael Locke and Mary Hawkins Locke.

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Source: Black Past

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Legal Advertising – Bids and Proposals 6-24-20

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

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Daniel Hale Williams - Birthday

Daniel Hale Williams was born on January 18, 1856 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Source: Black History Resources

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1856

Pandemic Threatens To Deepen Crisis in Mental Health Care

NEW YORK (AP) — More than three weeks after Brandon Bell stopped showing up at a New York office that serves people with schizophrenia, employees finally located him at a nearby homeless

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Source: Black America Web

George Floyd’s Brother, Pres. Obama Call for People to “Vote” for Change | Post News Group

As protests and unrest continued to sweep the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month, Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd urged protesters to remain peaceful and push for change another way: by

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Source: Post News Group | PNG

Green, Henry Davis (1827-1911)

Henry Davis Green was an anti-slavery activist (abolitionist) who was a participant in the Christiana Resistance (also known as the Christiana Riot) of 1851, the largest and most violent antebellum response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Green, a teamster by occupation, was born in Salisbury

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Source: Black Past

Rejected for being gay, Alain LeRoy Rocke became the Father of the Harlem Renaissance

Alain LeRoy Locke was a longtime Howard University professor, art critic, writer and

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

PG reporter Alexis Johnson: ‘I felt like my voice was being silenced’

Post-Gazette reporter Alexis Johnson and photographer Michael Santiago gaining nationwide support after being banned from covering local George Floyd protests

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Allegheny County sees its largest jump in COVID cases since April

Allegheny County reported 61 COVID-19 cases Friday, its largest single-day increase since April 23, when the number of new reported cases was also

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Rawle Andrews

Rawle Andrews Jr. is a regional vice president of AARP, the largest non-profit, non-partisan organization advocating for the rights and interests of persons 50 and older in the United

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Source: Howard University School of Law

PA Dems say GOP hid member's positive COVID-19 test: 'Callous liars'

Rep. Andrew Lewis, PA

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Source: theGrio

Harris, Barbara C. (1930- ) - Birthday

Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930.

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Source: Black Past

Jun

12

1930

Number of COVID-19 infections reach 77,313 in Pennsylvania, Allegheny County reports one death

Pennsylvania’s number of infections reached 77,313 on Thursday, a single-day increase of 467 cases, health department officials

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Allegheny County COVID-19 death toll goes up by 13, all but one attributed to long-term care facilities

Allegheny County Health Department on Thursday reported 13 new deaths from COVID-19 bringing the total to

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Berkshire Bank’s Virtual Townhall Series “Reimagining America” Raises Critical Questions About the Economic Future of African American and Hispanic Communities

Last week’s two-part townhall series “Reimagining America,” hosted and livestreamed by Berkshire Bank and Reevx Labs, is now available for viewing online at “ The Future of the Black Economy ” and “ The Future of Latinx

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Source: Odessa American

Trump Calls Minneapolis Protesters ‘Thugs,’ Vows action

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to take action to bring the city of Minneapolis “under control,” calling violent protesters outraged by the death of a black man in police custody “thugs” and saying that “when the looting starts, the shooting

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Source: Black America Web

August Wilson

August Wilson , original name Frederick August Kittel (born April 27, 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died October 2, 2005, Seattle, Washington), American playwright, author of a cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about black American life. He won Pulitzer

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Source: Brittanica

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