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Congress forbade Union officers/soldiers

Congress forbade Union officers and soldiers to aid in the capture and return of fugitive slaves, ending what one historian called the "military slave hunt."

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Dett, R. Nathaniel (1882-1943) - Birthday

Robert Nathaniel Dett was born October 11, 1882 in Drummondville, Ontario, Canada, a town founded prior to the American Civil War by fugitive slaves from the U.

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1882

Oberlin College (1833- )

Oberlin College which was named Oberlin Collegiate Institute until 1850, is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay Sipherd and Philo P. Stewart founded the institution as a college preparatory institute to promote Christian values. Oberlins

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As regional businesses resume on-site work, CFOs wary of COVID-19 backlash - PwC report

Hastily adopted by some entities in the region as an emergency response to the advent of COVID-19, “remote work” is likely to become “a permanent option” for jobs that so allow, with more than half the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the Caribbean saying they plan to improve the remote working

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Beyonce drops surprise single ‘Black Parade’ on Juneteenth – Voice and Viewpoint

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Beyonce did not let Juneteenth pass without dropping one of her signature surprises _ a new single called “Black

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

#FalseFreedom: How can we celebrate freedom when we're not truly free?

This protest encourages all people of color who have personally experienced any form of police harassment or racial injustice to tell their

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Nell, William C. (1816-1874)

William C. Nell was an African American civic activist, abolitionist, and historian. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Nell was the son of William Guion Nell, a prominent tailor and black activist. William C. Nell was introduced to racial inequality and black activism from birth. In the

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Useless law, rights enforced: Reactions trail Gabon pro-gay law

Activists have hailed this move that must now pass in the upper house of the Senate before the law is taken off the

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No criminals in uniforms - Former cops want harsher punishment for rogue officers, stricter recruitment process

Left angry, deflated, and embarrassed by the recent arrest of three St James-based police officers on drug-related charges in the United States, some former cops are calling on the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to carry out more intense screening during

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1863-1865)

The 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment made up of men who wanted to enter the already full 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 54th was the first officially recognized black military unit in the United States. When

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Dr Kandeh Yumkella visits Bombali’s covid19 Emergency Operations Center

Last Friday, Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella MP and leader of the NGC party in parliament, paid what many described as a very timely visit to The Bombali Covid19 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Congress Votes on D.C. Statehood | Afro

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), or as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser calls her, “our warrior on the Hill,” took to Twitter to share her excitement about the historic vote for the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”

Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional

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8

1879

(1857) Frances Ellen Watkins, “Liberty For Slaves”

Frances Ellen Watkins was born of free parents in Baltimore in 1825. After teaching in New York and Pennsylvania Watkins became a full-time abolitionist speaker for the Maine Anti-Slavery Society. By the 1850s she was one of the most noted speakers on that subject as well as a highly acclaimed

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23

1857

Chiwenga wins children’s custody

THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, Mary

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Family lawyer probing police actions in Black man's death

DENVER (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Black man who died after being stopped by suburban Denver police last year because he was “being suspicious,” said Friday she and Elijah McClain’s relatives have been conducting their own investigation after an official inquiry cleared three white police

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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop

Dar es Salaam — University students will return to their respective colleges on June 1, 2020 as the number of Covid-19 cases drops in Tanzania, President John Magufuli announced on Thursday, 21 May

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn’t hide his past

About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Covid-19: Mopani district becomes Limpopo's new epicentre after 'cluster outbreak'

There has been yet another "cluster outbreak" of Covid-19 cases in Limpopo, with the Mopani district now identified as the new epicentre of the pandemic in the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

In United States history, a free negro or free black was the legal status, in the geographic area of the United States, of blacks who were not

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(1846) Lewis Richardson, “I am Free From American Slavery” 1846

By the 1840s a number of fugitive slaves, the most prominent being Frederick Douglass, took to the lecture circuit usually appearing before abolitionist societies where they told their personal stories of bondage. The speech of Lewis Richardson, however, attracted particular attention because he

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ARTUZ leader arrested

AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure was arrested in Harare yesterday and immediately transferred to Masvingo, where he is expected to stand trial for an illegal demonstration he led early this

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

History of Black Civil Rights in America

The history of black civil rights is the story of Americas caste system. It is the story of how for centuries upper-class whites made African Americans into a slave class, easily identifiable because of their dark skin, and then reaped the benefits—sometimes using law, sometimes using

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Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople

In the article below Jill L. Newmark, exhibition specialist in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, describes thefirst hospital sponsored by the United States government specifically to meet the health care

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Rock, John S. (1825-1866)

John S. Rock was born to free black parents in Salem, New Jersey in 1825. He attended public schools in New Jersey until he was 19 and then worked as a teacher between 1844 and 1848. During this period Rock began his medical studies with two white doctors. Although he was initially denied

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1866

African-American History Quiz

African-American History Quiz | FactMonster

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PTUZ mobilises for boycott of exams invigilation

A COMBATIVE teachers’ union has psyched up the educators to boycott invigilating the June examinations until government complies with a High Court ruling ordering it to equip schools with facilities to prevent the spread of

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

St Kitts Opposition party files election petitions

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – Five defeated candidates of the main Opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) have filed petitions in the High Court challenging the results of the June 5, 2020 General Election in the twin-island

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Protests in DRC over Bill to reform justice

The Bill proposes to have the office of the prosecution answer to the Ministry of Justice, a situation opposed by political parties and the national union of

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Source: The East African

“Blazing a Path to Freedom: African Americans and Their White Allies in Bleeding Kansas”

In the following article University of Tulsa historian Kristen T. Oertel describes the people who like John Brown helped enslaved African Americans in Missouri escape to freedom in Kansas Territory through the western Underground

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From the Slave Quarters to the Courtroom: The Story of the First African American Attorney in the United States

Since J. Clay Smith’s publication of Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, it has been taken as gospel that Boston resident Macon Allen in 1844 became was the first African-American admitted to the bar to practice law in the United States. Recently, as part of the celebration of the 150th

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