Central Rupununi ranch manager held over gun

Black Panther Party Founder Born

Black Panther Party Founder Huey P. Newton born. An illiterate high-school graduate, Newton taught himself how to read before attending Merritt College in Oakland and the San Francisco School of Law, where he met Seale. In Oakland in 1966 they formed the Black Panther group in response to

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Feb

17

1942

The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A Participant Recalls Its Past

In the article below historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall recounts her role as a founder of the New Orleans Youth Congress and the early years of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. This account is part of her soon to be published

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Source: Black Past

Nov

15

1974

20 Best African-American Horror Movies

Comedic icon Mantan Moreland, perhaps best known as sidekick Birmingham Brown in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1940s, also starred in several all-black horror-comedies with his straight man, F.E. Miller— including this one about a pair of men who win a house in a game of craps. The only

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Source: ThoughtCo

Defiant Lesotho PM shows no sign of resigning

Lesotho's embattled prime minister appeared far from quitting after the attorney general advised him that he could not be forced to resign despite a scandal over his former

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1965 to 1969

This civil rights movement timeline focuses on the struggles final years, when some activists embraced black power, and leaders no longer appealed to the federal government to end segregation, thanks to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Although the

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Source: ThoughtCo

Mar

7

1960

Swaziland Journalist Critical of King Flees, Hides in Forest Five Days

Eugene Dube, the journalist critical of King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), who was beaten by police and is facing a treason charge hid in a forest for five days as he made his

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Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech

To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther

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Source: Smithsonian Black History Teaching Resources

Mar

7

1965

Montgomery, Ala., protest

Montgomery, Ala., police broke up protest demonstration on Alabama State campus and arrested thirty-five students, a teacher and her husband.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Mar

1

1960

Armed white mob terrorizing Black family in North Carolina captured in surveillance footage

Dameon Shepherd

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Defying Order, Baltimore Pastor Holds Services | Afro

By The Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Man charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition

Detectives from the May Pen Police Division have charged 30-year-old Robert Johnson, otherwise called ‘Shibby', of Midway Avenue, May Pen, Clarendon, with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition on Thursday, May

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is a professor at Harvard University, the author of many books of literary criticism and African American history, and the director of Harvards W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research. Gates has been a prominent scholar in African-American studies

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Boateng, Paul Yaw (1951- )

Born to a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother in Hackney, London, Paul Yaw Boateng became one of the first black British Members of Parliament in the general election of 1987. In 2002 he became the first Afro-Briton to serve in the Prime Ministers Cabinet. The family moved to Ghana when Boateng

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Source: Black Past

NYC Mayor Calls Off Mask-Wearing Orders After Video Of NYPD Pinning Down Black Mother Goes Viral

After a video of a mother being pinned to the ground and handcuffed by New York City Police Department officers in front of her child went viral, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to change the rules around enforcing that masks be worn in

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Source: MadameNoire

South Africa: Dagga Seized and Suspects Arrested

During the early hours of this morning, police officers from Besters SAPS were patrolling the N3 North Bound when they stopped a white

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Source: allAfrica.com

Eldridge Cleaver

Name at birth: Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Mozambique: Businessman Kidnapped in Beira

Maputo — Unidentified assailants kidnapped a 67 year old businessman, Lyacat Umargi, in the central Mozambican city of Beira on Friday

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Source: allAfrica.com

Police officers and Blacks exchanged sniper fire

Police officers and Blacks exchanged sniper fire on Chicagos West Side. One youth was killed and nine policemen were injured.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

8

1969

African-American History Timeline: 1980 to 1989

Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. is selected by the California Assembly to become the Speaker of the state legislature. Brown is the first African-American to hold this position. For 15 years, he serves in this capacity until he is elected as mayor of San

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Source: ThoughtCo

Nigerians take the law into their own hands to fight COVID-19 | Afro

Some Nigerians who rejected a government order to stay in place and left COVID-19 affected states for home are being turned in by their own

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Indianapolis Police Officer Who Made ‘Closed Casket Homie’ Remark Suspended and Reassigned

Last week, a black man, Dreasjon Sean Reed, was killed by Indianapolis police after being shot while evading officers after a car

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Meet The Black-Owned Legal Firm Handling The Murder Case of Ahmaud Arbery – Free Press of Jacksonville

Stewart Trial Attorneys based in Atlanta — one of the most respected African American law firms in the country — is now handling the Ahmaud Arbery

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

Jamaica

The Labour Party defeated Manley in 1980 and its capitalist-oriented leader, Edward P. G. Seaga, was elected prime minister. He encouraged private investment and began an austerity program. Like other Caribbean countries, Jamaica was hard-hit by the 1981–1982 recession. Devaluation of the Jamaican

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Snoop Dogg

Name at birth: Cordozar Broadus

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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery says 'I have a sense of hope'

(ABC NEWS) — The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African American whose slaying has prompted protests in Georgia, said on Monday that the arrest of a white father and son in the killing has given her “a sense of hope” that justice will be

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Robert Williams

Robert Williams , in full Robert Franklin Williams (born February 26, 1925, Monroe, North Carolina, U.S.—died October 15, 1996, Baldwin, Michigan), American civil rights leader known for taking a militant stance against racism decades before the Black Power and black nationalist movements of the

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Source: Brittanica

Oct

15

1996

Trinidad opens wider on Thursday - No Covid cases for 21 days

Trinidad opens wider on Thursday – No Covid cases for 21 days

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Where Ahmaud Arbery Ran, Neighbors Cast Wary Eyes

Using security camera footage, cell phone video, and 911 calls and logs, The Times has reconstructed the critical 12 minutes from when Mr. Arbery appeared on Satilla Drive to his death, less than 300 yards

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Source: Unpublished Black History

Michael Vick

Vick wears uniform number 7… He throws left-handed, but is otherwise right-handed… A 2005 lawsuit was filed against Vick by a woman who alleged he had given her a sexually transmitted disease in 2003. The case was settled out of court a year later. In papers filed with the court, the woman claimed

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

'No mask, no roti, no service' -Trinidad PM

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has advised citizens to obey public health regulations to wear masks when entering public

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

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