John W. Menard speaks in Congress

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

NAACP report said 1946 was one of the grimmest years in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The report deplored reports of blow torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and racial extermination and said

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

3

1947

Biden, Trump campaigns release staff diversity data

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign released staff diversity numbers on Saturday after months of delay, revealing that the campaign’s staff is mostly women and that more than one-third are people of color and prompting the Trump campaign to release its own

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

COVID-19 Infection rates among young people in the South and West drastically increases | The Atlanta Voice

The major thrust of new coronavirus cases in the United States is in the South and West, where officials say more young people are ignoring social distancing measures and testing

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Opelousas Massacre

Massacre in Louisiana. The Opelousas Massacre occurred in Louisiana on September 28, in which an estimated 200 to 300 black Americans were killed.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Sep

28

1868

Musician Joseph Oliver born

Birthday of jazz artist, coronet player, band leader and composer, Joseph King Oliver of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

14

1885

Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting

Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting. One Black and one white were killed. Knights of White Camelia, a paramilitary white supremacist organization, founded in Louisiana.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

14

1867

Appreciation for the Chicago Crusader | The Crusader Newspaper Group

I look forward with great enthusiasm to the delivery of the paper to my home in Houston and reading your coverage of local Chicago stories, historical accounts of Black history in America and the paper’s coverage of national

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Hurricane Chris Posts $500K Bond, Out Of Jail

Source: Shreveport PD / Shreveport PD

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Source: Black America Web

General Jackson Reneges On His Promise

General Jackson Reneges On His Promise: General Jackson, on order to prepare to meet Packenham, the British General, in the contest at New Orleans, came into the plantation fields to enlist five hundred Negro slaves. These are General Jackson comments: Had you not as soon go into battle an

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

12

2002

The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013

In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in

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Source: Black Past

Spingarn Medal :Langston Huges

Poet Langston Hughes presented Spingarn Medal and cited as the poet laureate of the Negro race.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

30

1960

[Poem] An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon

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Source: Black Then

Sissieretta Jones 1869-1933-Opera Singer

Sissieretta Jones born Matilda Joyner, enrolled in Providence Academy of Music at age fourteen and reported tohave completed training at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. With her rich soprano voice she was applauded as the first Negro prima donna. She was compared to Adelina Pattie an

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

0

1869

Nascar, A Circus With Clowns And All: Why Efforts To Destroy ‘Racism’ Are Destined To Fail Again And Again.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I am not a proponent of the idea that “history repeats itself,” I will admit that the recent rise in my white countrymen’s participation in the battle to defeat racism, America’s foremost social cancer, reminds me of a Civil Rights Movement era that I routinely address in

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Source: ThyBlackMan

LeMelle, Wilbert J., Sr. (1931-2003)

Wilbert J. LeMelle, Sr., was a scholar, development specialist, and ambassador to Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles between 1977 and 1980. In both his academic and diplomatic work, LeMelle urged the United States to become more engaged in Africa, focusing on economic development and human

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Source: Black Past

Pianist Ferdinand Morton born

Birthday of pianist Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Sep

20

1885

Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope

In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was

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Source: Black Past

May

17

1954

Bowie State University (1865- )

Founded in 1865, Bowie State University is Maryland’s oldest historically black university, and one of the ten oldest African American institutions of higher education in the United States. It is also one of eleven senior colleges and universities in the University of Maryland system. The

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Source: Black Past

CDC director pleads with younger Americans to wear masks while many states pause reopenings | The Atlanta Voice

The comments to a US Senate committee hearing on the virus came as at least 17 states have paused or rolled back their reopening plans in response to a surge in new

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual. Articles were written in both French, for the majority of African Americans in Louisiana, and English, in order

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Source: Black Past

How John Roberts left the door open to more state limits on abortion | The Atlanta Voice

Chief Justice John Roberts provided on Monday the decisive vote to preserve access to abortion in Louisiana, a ringing victory for the clinics and doctors who spent years fighting a law they claimed would effectively ban the procedure in the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Disney to Redesign Splash Mountain Due to the Ride’s Ties to Racism and Slavery – The Black Chronicle

But those aren’t the only brands getting a marketing makeover: Disney announced that it will reimagine its Splash Mountain theme park attraction due to its problematic roots and ties racial

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Death of Lt.Gov.Dunn

Lt. Gov. Oscar J. Dunn died suddenly in the midst of a bitter struggle for control of the Louisiana state government. Dunn aides charged that he was poisoned.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

22

1871

(1875) Congressman James T. Rapier, “Half Free, Half Slave”

On February 4, 1875, Congressman James T. Rapier of Alabama, rose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Civil Right bill then before Congress which when enacted later that year became the Civil Rights Act of 1875. His speech appears

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Source: Black Past

Feb

4

1875

Slave Uprising Suppressed

US troops suppress slave uprising in two Louisiana parishes near New Orleans.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

8

1811

Ann Wolfe: The Hardest Puncher in Women’s Boxing

The charismatic Ann Wolfe was a force of nature in professional boxing as she devastated the women’s rankings in multiple weight

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Source: Black Then

Why The Revolution For Racial Justice Starts With The Youth Vote - Blavity

That video made me think about Eric Garner, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell and the countless other Black bodies that were unfortunately lost due to racist

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Source: Blavity News

Bo Diddley is born.

Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

30

1928

Attorney General George Williams

Attorney General George Williams sent a telegram to Acting Governor Pinchback, saying that the Black politician was recognized by the President as the lawful executive of Louisiana.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

12

1872

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