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Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., preacher, civil rights activist, and national politician, was born to Mattie and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 29, 1908. Young Powell grew up in New York City, New York since his father, a Baptist preacher, became pastor of the historic

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Teens rap on COVID-19

The African American Community Response Team (AACRT), in partnership with the Summit Academy OIC Best Buy Teen Tech Center, launched a COVID-19 Rap Challenge for teens ages 13-18 last month to talk about how the pandemic has affected them, their families or the

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Colin Kaepernick: Protestors 'have the right to fight back' after death of George Floyd

Colin Kaepernick has broken his silence regarding the death of George Floyd, who was killed while in police

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How a clinical trial participant became an advocate for the Sickle Cell community

Shauna Whisenton was once an individual living with sickle cell disease

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Kerma - African Capital, Rival to Egyptian Pharaohs

Kerma is the name of the capital city of the Kerma society, a cultural group based in Sudanese Nubia, and part of the Kush or Kushite kingdom rival to Middle and New Kingdom Egypt. Kerma was the first Nubian state, situated between the fourth and fifth cataracts of the Nile River in what is now the

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New York state senator Myrie pepper sprayed during protest as police target journalists

As protest marches spread in over 75 US cities following the demise of Minneapolis resident George Floyd while in police custody, some of the demonstrators are counting the cost following the loss of a body part or

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Desmond Tutu

Born: 10/7/1931 Klerksdorp, South AfricaLeading figurehead in the South African anti apartheid movement. Desmond Tutu is a leading figure in speaking out for humanitarian and civil rights issues.Awards / Achievements:

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Garrett Augustus Morgan

Born: 3/4/1877 Claysville Community, KentuckyDied: 7/27/1963 Cleveland, OhioGarrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an African-American inventor and community leader. An invention he worked on the development of a chemical for hair-straighteningAwards / Achievements:

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Statement from Council Member Adam Bazaldua | Dallas Weekly

Not about the property damage or the anger that is spilling out through riots across our country, but because this is what it seems to take to get a reaction from our society, from the status

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How a Clinical Trial Participant Became an Advocate for the Sickle Cell Community

Shauna Whisenton was once an individual living with sickle cell disease

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Barack Obama

Born: 8/4/1961 Honolulu, HawaiiFirst US President of African origin. Obama served two terms as President and was awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeBusiness / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:

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Padmore, George (1901-1959)

A journalist, radical activist, and theoretician, George Padmore did more than perhaps any other single individual to shape the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth

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The "40-Garlic Clove" Chicken You'll Love | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

The first thing I thought of when I heard of a “40 Glove Garlic” chicken was, woooo, my

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Mapungubwe - African Iron Age Polity in South Africa

Mapungubwe is an African Middle to Later Iron Age site (AD 900-1300), located in the Mapungubwe National Park, in the Shashe-Limpopo river basin, Limpopo province of South Africa, adjacent to both Zimbabwe and Botswana. A stratified population is in evidence at the site, with elites residing at the

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Kenya: Gor Mahia Star Detained in City Hotel Over Sh600k Bill

This is the situation Gor Mahia's Ghanaian import Jackson Owusu has found himself

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Taban lo Liyong

Taban lo Liyong , (born 1938, Kajo Kaji, Sudan [now in South Sudan]), South Sudanese and Ugandan author whose experimental works and provocative opinions stimulated literary controversy in East

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Miller, Rosalie Reddick (1925-2005)

Dr. Rosalie Reddick Miller was the first African American woman dentist to practice in the State of Washington. She was born on December 29, 1925 in Waycross, Georgia. She attended the all-black public schools in Columbus, Georgia and in 1946 received a B. A. degree from Fisk University in

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Silver Bluff Baptist Church [South Carolina] (1773- )

The first black Baptist congregation in South Carolina was formed in 1773 on the Galphin Plantation near Silver Bluff, 14 miles northwest of Savannah, Georgia. The church was founded jointly by Rev. Wait Palmer, a white Connecticut minister, and African American pastor, George Liele. The first

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Perfect Timing: Colin Kaepernick Creates Legal Defense Initiative For Minneapolis Freedom Fighters

Now, the famed athlete-turned-activist is continuing to support the cause by speaking out after the tragic death of George Floyd, in addition to creating a legal defense fund for the Minneapolis protesters fighting for justice following

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Four Black Female Doctors Launch New National Medical Show Addressing Health Concerns and Inequities Affecting Women and the Black Community – The C4PEMD | Afro

Four Black Female Doctors Launch New National Medical Show Addressing Health Concerns and Inequities Affecting Women and the Black Community – The C4PEMD

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

What Can I Do with A Black Studies Major? Five Hundred Answers Provided by Robert Fikes, Jr.

In the 1971 Woody Allen film, “Bananas,” a fellow employee asks Allen’s character, “What would you have been if you finished school?” Allen’s character answers, “I was in the black studies program. By now I could have been black.” Allen’s attempted humorous jab

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Africa is home to nine of the world’s 10 most neglected crises: ‘Is there some racism here?’

Nine of the world’s 10 most neglected displacement crises are in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an international aid group, the Norwegian Refugee Council

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James, G. Winston (1967- )

Poet, author, and essayist, G. Winston James was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1971 at the age of three, grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, and graduated from Paterson Catholic Regional High School. James, who has lived in New York and Florida for

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Country Music Reckons with Racial Stereotypes and Its Future

Country artists, labels and country music organizations posted about Black Lives Matter on social media, participated in Blackout Tuesday or denounced racism

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Youth of Guyanese parentage spearheads clean-up in aftermath of Minneapolis riots | New York Carib News

Pierre Paul, 21, of Guyanese parentage, did not just lead the cleaning up of the neighborhood and the Target store, but he salvaged food and distributed it to the

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Lewis Temple

Lewis Temple was born in 1800 as a slave in Richmond, Virginia. He obtained his freedom and moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1829 where he worked as

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Tanzania: Border Tension Resurfaces...as Tanzanian Truckers Are Blocked From Crossing Into Kenya

TWO weeks after Tanzanian and Kenyan leaders agreed on modalities for enabling truck drivers cross at border posts, Kenyan authorities have started blocking Tanzanian truckers from crossing Namanga frontier on grounds of lacking valid Covid-19 clearance

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BET Awards ’20: A Look Back At Young Star Award Winners

Keke Palmer

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Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003)

Idi Amin was the Ugandan military dictator and President from 1971 to 1979. During his reign Amin’s military forces are estimated to have killed 500,000 people and exiled roughly 70,000 non-Ugandan nationals (mostly Indians) from

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Uncle Tom Revisited: Rescuing the Real Character from the Caricature

Today the phrase Uncle Tom evokes a powerfully negative image in American society. It depicts a weak, subservient, cringing black man who betrays his race and its struggle for liberation. David Reynolds, an English professor in the Graduate School of the City University of New York

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