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Colombia arrests US men accused of selling fake COVID cure - Black News Channel

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian officials say they have arrested two Florida men wanted in the United States on charges they illegally sold a bleachlike chemical as a miracle cure for the new coronavirus and other diseases. The Colombian prosecutor's office said Tuesday that Mark and Joseph Grennon were arrested in the beach town of Santa Marta, and were shipping their 'Miracle Mineral Solution' — chlorine dioxide — from there to clients in the United States, Colombia and Africa. It said seven Americans had died from using the substance. Mark Grenon is the archbishop of the Genesis II Church of […]

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Black Paul Revere
1781 - Nicholas, a free black patriot, rides to Dover, Delaware to alert United States troops that The British are coming!
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0
1781
Reginald F. Lewis
Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpes & Lewis, the first black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International food Company, Lewis became the
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3
0
First black doctor in US
James Derham was the first black doctor in the United States.
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0
2000
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In Tampa,Florida, a rebellion followed the suspicious death of Edgar Allen Price, a police suspect who died during an arrest. Police contended that Price hit his head on the ground several times.
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Feb
2
1989
First Black Appointed to a Sub-Cabinet Post
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Nov
26
1911
Governor Barnett Found Guilty
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28
1962
Four national chain stores announced
Four national chain stores announced on October 17 that counters in about 150 stores in 112 cities in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Oklahoma had been integrated.
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Mar
1
1960
Race riot in Florida
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Jun
16
1970
Saint Francis Xavier Church
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Oct
10
1863
War of 1812
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Jun
16
2002
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Apr
16
1862
Pulitzer Prize and Spingarn Medal given
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26
1970
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1
1867
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28
1915
Josephine Baker
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Second Pan-African Congress met in London
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28
1921
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Oct
3
1935
Survivors returned to Africa
Thirty-five Amistad survivors returned to Africa.
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Nov
25
1841
Forty-third Congress (1873-75) Convened
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1
1873
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Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at
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Feb
12
1865
The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.
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0
1983
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Jan
21
1773
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14
1862
The Brooklyn Excelsiors is the first black baseballteam to tour the United Sta
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1860
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9
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6
1820
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20
1927
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21
1947
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