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Son Of George Floyd Visits Memorial Near Site Of His Father’s Killing: ‘No Man Or Woman Should Be Without Their Father’ - Blavity

At a press conference on Monday, the mother of George's 6-year-old daughter Gianna, Roxie Washington, cried as she spoke about the support her daughter will be missing now that her father is

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Rev. Al Sharpton: America, 'Get Your Knee Off Our Necks'

At the funeral for George Floyd, who was killed when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin put his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes, Sharpton spoke with Floyd’s story is the story of black folks,” he

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George Alcorn

Pioneer in the fields of aerospace and semiconductor

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InventHelp’s National TV Ad Featuring George Foreman (30 sec)

Do you have an idea for an invention or new product? We help everyday inventors patent and submit their ideas to companies. As George says, “Call my friends at InventHelp”! Call 1-800-INVENTION or click here for more

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Record-breaking GoFundMe Page for George Floyd’s Family Amasses More Than $13 Million

A GoFundMe campaign for George Floyd’s family has broken the record for the most individual donations in the

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Dusanne, Zoë (1884-1972)

Described by those who knew her as exotic, flamboyant, and colorful, Zoë Dusanne, was an art dealer and collector who opened Seattle’s first professional modern-art gallery, the Zoë Dusanne Gallery, in 1950 and who worked tirelessly to both introduce modern art to a northwest audience and to

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P. W. Botha

P. W. Botha , in full Pieter Willem Botha (born Jan. 12, 1916, Paul Roux, S.Af.—died Oct. 31, 2006, Wilderness, near George), prime minister (1978–84) and first state president (1984–89) of South

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Rising Country Star JT Harker Releases New Single “Drunk People”

Country singer continues to gain followers and streams with each new song

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Delaware moves whipping post from public square that was used until the '50s

You may wonder why in the world a whipping post ever existed in a public square in America

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PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

George Floyd’s death turned a tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional and systemic racism, into a bon fire of protest raging across America and the

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Source: The Florida Star

Four Minneapolis Officers Fired After Death of Black Man

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was

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Bessie Coleman

The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring Bessie Coleman in 1995… Bessie Coleman’s family line included some American Indian blood: her father George was part African-American and part Cherokee.

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Benjamin Crump says first degree murder charge still possible in George Floyd case

Today Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump who is representing the family of George Floyd was a guest on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” and told Madison he believes a first-degree murder charge is still possible based on newly discovered evidence in the killing of George Floyd, a Minneapolis

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St. George’s, Grenada (1649- )

St. George’s is the capital of Grenada, an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The city has an estimated population of 4,300 people in a nation of 105,897 people (2012). St. George’s is positioned on the island’s southern coast on a small peninsula that has a shallow exterior bay

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Source: Black Past

In Houston 60,000 join in peaceful March for George Floyd

Tens of thousands marched in downtown Houston Tuesday during a rally with George Floyd’s family organized by rappers Trae tha Truth and Bun B, to protest police violence after Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis law

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Tina Knowles-Lawson Pens Open Letter To Congress Pushing For Passage Of HEROES Act

On Thursday, the mother to singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Solange, along with Mothers of the Movement and a host of Black women in Hollywood, sent an open letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Ella Fitzgerald Born

Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song, born. In 1934, an awkward sixteen-year-old girl made her singing debut at the Harlem Apollo Theatre amateur night in New York City. She intended to dance, but she lost her nerve when she got on stage. The man said, do something while youre out there, the singer

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GoFundMe set up for George Floyd raises over $11m within a week

8|24 #MambaMentality

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George Floyd’s Brother Urges Congress To Back Cause Of Police Reform

A day after an emotional funeral for George Floyd in his hometown of Houston, his brother Philonise Floyd testified in front of Congress on Wednesday (June 10) about police accountability and violence by law enforcement in the African-American

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George Floyd Unrest and Action Continues…

George Perry Floyd Jr., born in North Carolina, raised in Houston’s Third Ward, and forging a new life in Minneapolis, was honored in all his humanity with funerals in all three

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AMERICA’S OTHER PLAGUE

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Source: The New York Carib News

‘Defund Police’ Movement Gains Steam As Celebrities And Politicians Sign On

Since the Week of Action began on Monday, various celebrities have signed on to a M4BL letter calling for the police to be defunded, including John Legend, Lizzo, Taraji P. Henson, The Weeknd, Common, Yara Shahidi, Jane Fonda and

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Quit Playin’: The Warrior Model–Rally v. Protest

The televised police execution of George Floyd was a seminal moment in American

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Moment of truth approaches for GECOM Chair

As the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections crawls along it must not be forgotten that what should have been an orderly process with a result within two or three days was obscenely overturned by the Returning Officer for District Four, Clairmont Mingo when he introduced numbers

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Attorney General Keith Ellison charges remaining three ex-officers in George Floyd murder case

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison charged three former Minneapolis police officers Wednesday in connection with the death of George Floyd in their

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Mitt Romney joins Black Lives Matter protest

Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing him wearing a mask as he walked with Black Lives Matter protesters in

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Michelle Obama: 'I’m Exhausted By A Heartbreak That Never Seems To Stop'

Former first lady Michelle Obama said it was “up to all of us — Black, white, everyone” to root out racism as she responded on social media to the death of George

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'Married to Medicine' Creator Mariah Huq Shares the 'Awkward' Conversation She Had with Her Children About Police Brutality and the Importance of Protesting

“Married to Medicine” creator and executive producer Mariah Huq is opening up about the candid conversation she had with her daughter Lauren-Taylor Huq, 15, and her son Ethan-Tyler Huq, 13, about police

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“I Know You Know That Black Lives Matter”: Meghan Markle Makes Her Most Political Statement Yet In Graduation Speech

Meghan Markle, 38, addressed the graduating class of her former high school in Los Angeles with an emotional speech that sought to grapple with the continued unimaginable loss of Black

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`Get your knee off our necks!': Floyd mourned in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hollywood celebrities, musicians and politicians gathered in front of the golden casket of George Floyd at a fiery memorial Thursday for the man whose death at the hands of police sparked global protests, with a civil rights leader declaring it is time for black people to

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