George Washington frees slaves

Sponsor FedEx asks Redskins to Change Their Name - Black News Channel

AP/BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — The title sponsor of the Washington Redskins stadium wants the NFL team to change its name. We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name, FedEx said in a statement Thursday. The company paid the team $205 million in

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Ex-Cop Charged In George Floyd’s Death to Argue Self-Defense

In the upcoming trial of the police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd, one of the police officers going on trial is expecting to claim self-defense for his role in the tragic death, according to NBC

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Martha's Vineyard

For more than 100 years the island of Martha's Vineyard (seven miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts) has been an important summertime haven for Black Bostonians. In the late 1800s Blacks first came to the island to work for whites and some earned enough money to gain small summer vacation

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Augustus Washington: One of History's Few Known African American Daguerreotypists

Augustus Washington became one of the only historically documented African American daguerreotypists using the first commercial photographic process, invented in 1839, to develop pictures on a silver surface sensitized with iodine exposed to mercury

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Charges filed against staff at facility where Michigan teen died after being restrained | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Charges have been filed against three staff members of a youth services facility in Kalamazoo where a teen died after being restrained, the county prosecutor said

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Rayshard Brooks Memorialized At Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Family, friends, dignitaries, elected officials and community leaders gathered today to remember the life of Rayshard Brooks at Historic Ebenezer Baptist

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Barbara Jordan Quotes: African American Congresswoman

Barbara Jordan, born and raised in a Houston, Texas, ghetto, became active in politics working for John F. Kennedys presidential campaign in 1960. She served in the Texas House of Representatives and in the Texas Senate. Barbara Jordan was the first black woman to be elected to the Texas

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Trump calls Black Lives Matter a 'symbol of hate' as he digs in on race | The Atlanta Voice

By Wednesday, Trump was calling the words “black lives matter” a “symbol of hate” — a description he’s refused to use for Confederate emblems — that would spoil the “luxury avenue” he once called

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

The Murder of George Floyd Uncovers “The Myth of American Justice”

In response to the murder of George Floyd, the current mayor of Minneapolis stated that “being born Black should not be a death

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

African-American History Timeline: 1700 - 1799

The New York Assembly passes a law making it illegal for enslaved African-Americans to testify against whites. The law also prohibits slaves from gathering in groups larger than three in

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Early African-American Poets

Civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell pronounced that Paul Laurence Dunbar was “the poet laureate of the Negro race,” at the height of his fame as a critically acclaimed poet. Dunbar explored themes such as identity, love, heritage and injustice in his poems, which were all

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Paris Jackson says King of Pop caught on 'pretty quickly' to her sexuality

(Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Louisville, Ky, to probe handling of Breonna Taylor shooting

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Government officials in Kentucky said they will begin an investigation into the city of Louisville’s handling of the fatal police shooting of Breonna

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Fields, Green (1840-1914)

Green Fields, former Seattle City employee, early African American resident of the Queen Anne Neighborhood in Seattle, and soldier with the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War, was born a slave in DeSoto, Mississippi, the son of Fannie Jackson and Richard Fields. In 1864 he escaped slavery and

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Source: Black Past

What Happened To Elijah Weatherspoon? ‘Conflicting Stories’ Of Black Boater’s Death Prompt Questions

In fact, Weatherspoon’s death comes at a time when there have multiple suspected lynchings of Black and brown people nationwide amid protests against racism as well as police

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Source: NewsOne

In Sierra Leone, traditional music lovers lost one of the country’s greatest cultural singers, Abou Whyte The Wilmington Journal

Whyte hailed from the Fourah Bay and Foulah Town communities and up to his death was resident in the State of New Jersey. Abou Whyte was not only a musician but a painter, sculptor and [...]

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Source: The Wilmington Journal

Venezuela calls US warship presence a 'provocation' | New York Carib News

Venezuela calls US warship presence

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Source: The New York Carib News

This Day in History — July 1

2004: Saddam Hussein appears in Iraqi court for the first time, scoffing at charges of war crimes and

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Bankhead, Mary Lucille Perkins (1902–1994)

Mary Lucille Perkins Bankhead, lifelong resident of Salt Lake City and member of the Genesis Group leadership, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 9, 1902. Her father, Sylvester Perkins, was a cowboy and farmer. Her mother, Martha Anne Jane Stevens Perkins Howell, was a homemaker and

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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church [Philadelphia] (1794- )

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the nation, was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1794 by Richard Allen, a former slave. Allen founded Mother Bethel AME after the church he had been attending, St. George’s Methodist

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Lesotho ex-First Lady gets bail in murder trial

Lesotho’s former first lady, who was charged with the murder of her husband’s estranged wife, was granted bail on Monday after spending three weeks in

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A Must, Police Reform, Etc.

One of the first things I heard from Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican Senator, was a plan for a study of 18

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Stefflon Don Says COVID-19 Threat Has Blocked Her From Seeing Burna Boy In Jail

Source: Jo Hale / Getty

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Source: The Urban Daily

Boston To Remove Statue Depicting Abraham Lincoln With Freed Black Man At His Feet

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Source: Stories About Black History

(1851) Sojourner Truth “Ar'nt I a Woman?”

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) was arguably the most famous of the 19th Century black women orators. Born into slavery in New York and freed in 1827 under the state’s gradual emancipation law, she dedicated her life to abolition and equal rights for women and men. Two versions of her most noted

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1st Rhode Island Regiment

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a Continental Army regiment during the American Revolutionary War. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment became known as the Black Regiment due to its allowing the recruitment of African Americans in 1778. This decision, designed to help fill dwindling ranks among the

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Source: Black Past

Phyllis Hyman: Final Hours Remembered on the Anniversary of Her 1995 Death [EUR Video Throwback]

Twenty-five years ago today, Phyllis Hyman was scheduled to perform at the Apollo Theatre in

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

Jamaican teachers recruited to teach US students online

(Jamaica Observer) In an initiative with the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, Community Scholar Inc — a US-based non-profit organisation — is hiring Jamaican teachers to tutor students in the United States

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Trump denounces, rails against protesters in Mount Rushmore speech

On the eve of Independence Day in America, President Donald Trump gave a speech at the foot of Mount Rushmore. His speech was more about the protection of monuments and statues than about uniting the country during a time of racial unrest. With several thousand attendees at the South Dakota

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Source: theGrio

Civil Unrest Damaged Buildings; Then Local Artists Responded, In Photos

Plywood surrounding businesses and buildings is the opposite of what most people picture when they think of a thriving downtown, but, somehow, Birmingham managed to take an uncertain moment and make it

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Source: The Birmingham Times

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