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Left of Black - American Dance Festival Special

Left of Black with Ron K. Brown and Jason Moran

I woke up like this: Desire & Respectability in ShondaLand

“You gotta testify because the booty don’t lie”: The (Il)Legality of Black Womanhood

What does the future look like for social movements?

Left of Black with Maya Freelon Asante, M.K. Asante, Chuck D and Gaye Theresa Johnson

Left of Blacks L.A. Riots episode

Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Chelsea Alderman

William J. Williams, a lawyer, was the first Black elected to the Chelsea Board of Aldermen. His term was from 1902 to 1906. He also served as a captain in Company L of the State Militia.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

First Elected Black Woman

In 1952 Madeline D. Andrews was elected to the Medford School Committee. She was apparently the first Black woman elected to public office in Massachusetts.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Mary Frances Berry

Mary Frances Berry , (born Feb. 17, 1938, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.), American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist whose public service included work in three presidential administrations. From 1980 to 2004 she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, serving as chairwoman from 1993

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Source: Brittanica

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)

African-American Civil Rights Movement redirects here. For the movement in the early 20th century, see African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954). For the movement in the 19th century, see African-American Civil Rights Movement

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Source: ThoughtCo

First Black Judge - Juvenile Court

In 1948 Bruce Robinson became the first Black appointed to the bench in Massachusetts. He was named Associate Justice of the Boston Juvenile Court by Governor Robert Bradford.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

F.W. de Klerk , in full Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, S.Af.), politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela

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Source: Brittanica

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First Black Red Sox Player

Elijah 'Pumpsie' Green was the first Black baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, playing in the infield from 1959-1962.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

First on Parole Board

In the 1930s Matthew Bullock became the first Black appointed to the Massachusetts Parole Board.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Early Civil Rights Leader

Archibald H. Grimke (1849-1930) was the second African-American to graduate from Harvard Law School (1874). While struggling to establish a law practice in Boston, he started the first Black newspaper in New England, the Hub, in 1883. The paper, a voice of protest for Blacks in New England, lasted

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Early Episcopalians

The Church of St. Augustine and St. Martin, located in lower Roxbury, was founded by Black Episcopalians in 1908. In 1981, after 73 years as a mission church of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, it became an independent church within the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Distinguished Black Judge

Harry J. Elam became the first Black to serve as a Justice in the more than 300-year history of the Boston Municipal Court when he was appointed in 1971 as an Associate Justice. In 1978 he was the unanimous choice of the full bench of the Supreme Judicial Court to serve a five-year term as Chief

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Born Carlton Douglas Ridenhour on August 1, 1960, the American rapper, author and producer is more widely known by his stage name, Chuck

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Source: Black History Resources

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First Black Corporate Presidents

Black Corporate Presidents of New England, Inc., was formed and incorporated in 1973 by a group of Black manufacturers concerned about the existing barriers which prevented their businesses from full access to public and private sector contract opportunities. Today BCPNE represents a regional

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

First Black Female Law Firm

Attorneys Margaret Burnham, Geraldine Hines, and Judith Dilday established the first Black female law firm in New England in 1989. Located in Boston, Burnham, Hines and Dilday specialize in family law, divorce, wills, custody, and civil and criminal litigation.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Michael L. Lomax

Michael L. Lomax is President & Chief Executive Officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). In this role, Lomax leads the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships and other educational support to African-American students. Under his leadership, UNCF has raised $2.3 billion and

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Source: Savoy Network

Thomas, Piri (1928-2011) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

Author and activist Piri Thomas became one of the first Americans of Puerto Rican descent to win literary acclaim when he published his 1967

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Source: The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

Oldest Suburban Churches

Myrtle Baptist Church in Newton, founded in 1874, and St. John's Baptist Church in Woburn, founded in 1886, are the oldest Black churches in suburban Boston.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Militant movement launched to fight cartels

A NEW militant group, Poverty Liberation Movement, was launched in Harare yesterday to effect citizen arrests, strategic boycotts and other punitive actions against cartels and known corrupt individuals in order to fight

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

The Blerd Binder Covers Nerdy News for Black Nerds of the World – Free Press of Jacksonville

NNPA NEWSWIRE — If you are a college student who is currently missing campus life right now, I am happy to say that the Spike Lee Joint, School Daze, has was recently added to the Netflix

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Ali Al Amin Mazrui

Ali Al Amin Mazrui , (born February 24, 1933, Mombasa, Kenya—died October 12, 2014, Vestal, New York, U.S.), Kenyan American political scientist who was widely regarded as one of East Africa’s foremost political

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Source: Brittanica

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Are They Protests Or Riots? It Depends Who You Ask

We found that narratives about the Women’s March and anti-Trump protests gave voice to protesters and significantly explored their

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Source: NewsOne

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938)

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, writer, activist, collector, and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance was born in Saturce, Puerto

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Source: Black Past

Black Newspaper Publisher

In 1838 Benjamin Roberts (who worked for The Liberator under William Lloyd Garrison) established the Anti-Slavery Herald, intended to be an anti-slavery journal by and for Blacks in Boston. Only a few issues were printed. In 1853 Roberts tried again establishing a Black paper called Self Elevator.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Long-Running TV Programs

'Say Brother,' produced by WGBH-TV (Channel 2) for the past 20 years, is the longest running television show targeted to the African-American and minority communities in Boston. 'Urban Update' (formerly 'Black News') on WHDH (Channel 7) is a close second with a nearly 18-year on-air history.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Yambo Ouologuem

Yambo Ouologuem , pseudonym Utto Rodolph (born Aug. 22, 1940, Bandiagary, Mopti region, French Sudan [now Mali]), Malian writer who was highly acclaimed for his first novel, Le Devoir de violence (1968; Bound to Violence), which received the Prix Renaudot. With this work, Ouologuem became the

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Source: Brittanica

First Black Trained Nurse

Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), acknowledged to be the first Black trained nurse in America, graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children, now the Dimock Community Health Center, in 1879. While she was one of the few early Black members of The American Nurses Association, she

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

First Black Church

In December 1806, Rev. Thomas Paul (who had been and 'exhorter' of scripture passages since age sixteen) formally organized and became the first minister of the first Black church in Boston at the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Ward 9 Politicians

From Boston's 'old' Ward 9 in the Beacon Hill area, Boston's Black citizens were able to elect 20 Black persons to public office - to the city council, the state legislature, and school committee - during the second half of the 19th century.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

World's Record Holder

Edward 'Ned' Gourdin (1897-1966), as a Harvard athlete, set a new world's record in the running broad jump - 25 feet, 3 inches - the first human to leap beyond 25 feet. A graduate of Cambridge Latin High and Harvard Law School (1924) he was crowned National Amateur Athletic Union Junior 100-yard

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Robert L. Johnson

Robert L. Johnson is Founder & Chairman of The RLJ Companies. In this role, Johnson heads a business network that owns or holds interests in a diverse portfolio of companies in the consumer financial services, private equity, real estate, hospitality, professional sports, film

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Source: Savoy Network

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