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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Haitian Invasions and Occupation of Santo Domingo (1801-1844)

The Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) would be the target of aggression from its Hispaniola neighbor, French-ruled Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), in the early nineteenth century culminating in a twenty-two year occupation which would have long term consequences for both

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Source: Black Past

Feb

27

1844

Clarence's Hollywood

Katherine Stockett’s excellent novel, The Help, is about the African American maids who worked in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Stockett reflects the brutal realties of 20th Century slavery being carried out in pretentious southern white households that continued from

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Source: Black Past

Jan

12

2010

Thompson, John Edward West (1855-1918)

John Edward West Thompson was an African American non-career diplomat. He served as U.S. Minister Resident/Consul General to Haiti from June 30, 1885 to October 17, 1889. Thompson simultaneously served as U.S. Chargé dAffaires to Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) from 1885 to

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Source: Black Past

Langston, John Mercer (1829-1897)

John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia in 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles, Langston took his surname from his mother, Lucy

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Source: Black Past

Nov

15

1897

Africa: 'You Will Not Be Safe From COVID-19, Until Everyone Is Safe From COVID-19'

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International President Dr. Christos Christou delivered the following statement today at the 2020 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment high-level panel on the increasing complexity of health challenges in humanitarian

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Source: allAfrica.com

120 more contract Covid-19 in Kenya

A hundred and twenty more people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Kenya, raising the country’s total number of confirmed cases since March 13 to

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Source: The East African

Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence

Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence of Haiti, the second republic in the Western Hemisphere.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

1

1804

Harris Health targets homeless for COVID-19 testing and care

Homeless individuals are now being tested for the COVID-19 virus by Harris Health System through its Health Care for the Homeless Program thanks to nearly $1.3 million in federal grants awarded to Harris

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

Three Students Make History at Northwestern University as the First All-Black MFA Directing Cohort

Assistant directing: Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage), In the Heights (Seattle Rep), Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage/Huntington Theatre Company), and The Luckiest People (Actors Theatre of

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

PAHO chief urges Caribbean to prepare to manage COVID-19 for next two years

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — Director of the Pan American Health Organisation, Dr Carissa F Etienne is urging Caribbean countries as well as those in the Americas to prepare to manage the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic closely for the next two

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbuss arrival in the region in 1492. Other names for this ethnicity include African-Caribbean (especially preferred among the United Kingdom branch of the

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Belley-Mars, Jean-Baptiste (1747?–1805?)

Jean-Baptiste Belley-Mars, who represented Saint-Domingue in the French National Convention in Paris in 1794, is widely credited with persuading that body to abolish slavery in France and its overseas colonies. Belley-Mars as a boy was kidnapped by slave catchers on the island of Goree near

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Source: Black Past

Feb

4

1794

Regional and int'l news briefs

The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

John James Audubon born in Haiti to an African Car

John James Audubon born in Haiti to an African Caribbean mother and a French father.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

26

1785

African Americans in New York City

African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City. The majority of the African American population largely claims descent from West and Central Africa by way of importation to the American South via the Atlantic slave trade (and a rarer presence of those

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Source: ThoughtCo

Nichols, Brian A. (1965- )

In 2013, Brian A. Nichols, career Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to

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Source: Black Past

Vanessa Williams is Making a Difference with Thousands of Black Mayors

Vanessa R. Williams has earned the description of the “glue that holds 650 African American mayors

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Source: The Florida Star

Minister of Haiti

John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Sep

27

1877

Lockdowns may be implemented at local level, Mkhize warns

Health minister Zweli Mkhize

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Source: TechCentral

African Baptist Church [Boston] (1805- )

Officially founded on August 8, 1805 by the Reverend Thomas Paul, The African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in Massachusetts. The first meeting of the congregants took place around 1800. Thomas Paul and Scipio Dalton formed the African Baptist Church after a group of black congregants

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Source: Black Past

Aug

8

1805

Cuban medics in Guinea-Bissau to bolster COVID-19 combat

A Cuban medical brigade arrived in Guinea-Bissau to assist in the fight against

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Williams, George Washington (1849-1891)

George Washington Williams was a 19th century American historian most famous for his volumes, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880; as Negroes, as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens (1882), and A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion (1887).Williams was born in

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Source: Black Past

***EVENT CANCELED*** Rev. Jackson, son, Yusef, to take COVID-19 test today at Kennedy King College | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Leading by example, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and his son, Attorney Yusef Jackson, who is Secretary of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Board, will lead by example 12 noon, Tuesday, May 26th, by taking a COVID-19 test at Kennedy King College, 6301 S. Halsted

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Kenya mask enforcement protest leads to deaths

Enforcement of virus containment regulations turned deadly in Lessos, a small town in Kenya’s Rift Valley where a witness confirmed that three people were killed during a confrontation between police and residents over the wearing of face

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

EALA urges partner states to pay contributions

The East African Legislative Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for urgent need for remittances of the financial obligations by partner

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Source: The East African

Abolitionism

Anti-slavery redirects here. For the British NGO working for the eradication of slavery, see Anti-Slavery

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Source: ThoughtCo

Aug

28

1833

TSU Board of Regents Considers Naming New Campus Library After Rudley

The Texas Southern University (TSU) Board of Regents has considered a now-unresolved proposal to name the new Library Learning Center after Dr. John M. Rudley, who served as TSU President from 2008 to

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Haiti

By late August 2011, President Martelly had spent his first 100 days in office without completing his first objective: forming a government. Parliament, led by opposition, turned down his choice for prime minister twice. This left Haiti without a functioning government a year and a half after an

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Oct

5

2011

Haiti

Haiti, in the West Indies, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. About the size of Maryland, Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country marked by great valleys, extensive plateaus, and small

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