Hicks, Irvin (1938- )

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Jul

2

1908

Indianapolis Colts Star Darius Leonard Says He Was The Target Of Racism At A Chipotle

Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard claims he was wrongfully kicked out of a Chipotle restaurant in Florence, South Carolina simply because

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

THE RUN DOWN – THE AFRO ENDORSES SHEILA DIXON | Afro

Host Micha Green reveals the AFRO’s Mayoral candidate endorsement for Baltimore City, and the trending topics in the AFRO NEWSPAPER.

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

7-Year-Old Boy with Sickle Cell Recovers from COVID-19: "Keep the Faith"

But one 7-year-old boy who has sickle cell and was stricken with COVID-19, has

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Source: BlackDoctor | Health News On Fitness, Nutrition & Weight Loss - BlackDoctor

Dixon Will Not Concede Election | Afro

Sources tell the AFRO that former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon will not concede defeat in her election bid to regain the seat she once held. The former mayor has expressed “concerns” about the vote counting process.

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Black Americans Still Wary of Clinical Trials | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

Yet, studies show Black Americans continue to distrust medical research and clinical trials, apparently a lasting legacy of the infamous Tuskegee experiment which was shut down more than three decades

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Source: BlackDoctor | Health News On Fitness, Nutrition & Weight Loss - BlackDoctor

Trailblazing Dancer

Born in Roxbury in 1900, Mildred Davenport became a trailblazing dancer and renowned dance instructor. Her first career was in show business. In 1938 she danced her interpretation of the African-American spirituals with the Boston Pops. She appeared on Broadway with such reviews as 'Blackbirds' and

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

OE-ED: We Have a Right to be Angry!

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Oprah Winfrey Donates $12 Million for COVID-19 Relief in Five Cities

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

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Stockpiling?

WASHINGTON–At least 22 states, including Oklahoma, have obtained a total of more than 10 million doses of malaria drugs to treat COVID-19 patients despite warnings from doctors that more tests are

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Trauma and COVID-19 | Afro

The Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights (OECR) invites all Baltimoreans to join a virtual presentation on how the pandemic has impacted and created trauma in communities on May

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

New Prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery Case Refutes Complaint of Conflict of Interest

In a recent report published by Law.com, Cobb Judicial Circuit District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes, the fourth DA to be assigned the Ahmaud Arbery case, said that questions had been raised about a possible conflict of interest for her – although she made it clear she will proceed with the

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Source: The Washington Informer

Astros legend Bob ‘The Bull’ Watson dies at 74

HOUSTON — Bob “The Bull” Watson, the first African-American GM to win a World Series, died Thursday due to kidney

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

Kevin Liles, Music Entrepreneur

At the age of 30, after just ten years with the company, Kevin Liles was promoted to president of leading rap label Def Jam

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Source: Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia

Urgent Call: Establish Federal Office of Men’s Health | Afro

It is time for an ‘Office of Men’s Health’ because preventable male death and illness is decreasing the quality of life for

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Frances Harper

Born: 9/24/1825 Baltimore, MarylandDied: 2/22/1911 Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFrances Harper was an African-American abolitionist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Womens Christian Temperance Union, which advocated the federal government

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Kurt Schmoke becomes the first African American mayor of Baltimore, Md

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

8

1987

Queen Bee Masks | Afro

By Myra Owens Queen, Special to the AFRO

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

In 1983, Doctors Elmer and Joanne Martin opened a wax museum, the first of its kind in the nation, as well as, Baltimore, Maryland of African Americans leaders that were made of

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

0

1983

Defying Order, Baltimore Pastor Holds Services | Afro

By The Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Trump's Memorial Day weekend amid pandemic spent golfing, tweeting conspiracies and insults | The Atlanta Voice

As the US death toll from coronavirus topped 97,000, President Donald Trump was spending his Memorial Day weekend doing what he’d typically do during any other time off during his presidency — golfing and

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

7-Year-Old Boy With Sickle Cell Recovers From COVID-19: “Keep the Faith” | The Oklahoma Eagle

But one 7-year-old boy who has sickle cell and was stricken with COVID-19, has

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Op-ed Submission: America is My Home | Afro

Today, they stand as beacons of light, shining example to the next generation of what we can accomplish with our God-given talents, the freedoms we enjoy, the opportunities available in our nation and, yes, a whole lot of

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

US records 820 new Covid-19 deaths

The United States on Sunday recorded 820 new coronavirus fatalities in the previous 24 hours, but the country's total death count neared 90,000, a Johns Hopkins University tracker

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

First Black Priest Ordained in the United States

Charles Randolph Uncles became the first Black priest ordained in the United States on this day in Baltimore, Maryland

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

19

1891

Fax, Elton (1909-1993)

Elton Clay Fax, a prolific African-American cartoonist, author, and illustrator, was born on October 9, 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Mark Oakland Fax, a clerk, and Willie Estelle Fax, a seamstress. Elton’s younger brother, Mark, was a music prodigy who worked as a composer later

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Source: Black Past

May

13

1993

Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)

Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He is remembered as a lawyer who had one of the highest rates of success before the

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Source: Black Past

Henry McNeal Turner Born

Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

1

1834

The Light of Inequity Shines Brightly for Blacks | Afro

By Dr. Howard Fuller and Shannon Williams

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Frances Watkins Harper, writer born

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Sep

24

1825

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