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Questioning the Country with Frederick Douglass: Judgment, Not Joy on July 4th - Los Angeles Sentinel

If we are to honor and rightfully appreciate our history and struggle to liberate ourselves and expand the realm of freedom and justice in this country, we must stand with Frederick Douglass at Rochester, New York in 1852, at every Fourth of July celebration. To stand with Douglass on this day is

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Petition launched to rename London school after first Black headteacher who was Guyanese

In light of the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement, which is putting pressure on universities and schools to demolish statues of slavers, hundreds of parents and former students of a London school named after an 18th century slave owner are calling for it to be renamed in honour of one of

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

African Diaspora Religions

The continent of Africa has been home to hundreds of indigenous tribes speaking a wide variety of languages and believing a wide variety of different spiritual ideas. One certainly cannot speak of African religion as if it was a single, coherent set of beliefs. The versions of these religions as

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1724 - Virginia offera a tax break to slave holders if they instruct and baptize their slaves.

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Statue Of Protester Is Removed In England, One Day After Replacing Slave Trader : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR

Officials in Bristol say the artist didn't have approval to erect the work on the plinth where the Edward Colston statue used to stand. The mayor says the search for a replacement will not be rushed.

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Source: Stories About Black History

Sunny Hostin goes viral explaining George Washington's history as a slave owner

(ABC/Paula

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Arab and Muslim Communities Need To Talk About Anti-Blackness

Black Muslims are often overlooked in conversations about Islam, and Afro-Arabs are rendered invisible in the discourse of Arab politics and culture.

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Embry-Riddle to resume face-to-face instruction on June 30 –

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to reopen the institution’s residential campuses in Florida and Arizona for face-to-face instruction on June

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Source: Daytona Times

Prologue: Selected Articles | National Archives

Prologue: Selected Articles

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Juneteenth: The History, Legacy & How To Celebrate

Granger read General Order No. 3 on that day, informing the

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Source: Black America Web

Royal African Company

Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of

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Source: Black Past

LAFC Launches Petition To Recognize Juneteenth As National Holiday

Petition Part of Club’s Commitment to Support the Black Community; Goal is to Gather 100,000 Signatures Through Change.org Petition

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis

Stanton-King could use a dose of that reality herself, according to Dwight Bullard, political director of New Florida Majority, an organization that supports progressive Democrats and people of

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Source: South Florida Times

Henriette Delille: Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family

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‘If I tell people about what happened, I honor my ancestors.’ How the pandemic is helping a slavery historian develop a K-12 lesson plan on African-American history - African American News Today - EIN News

acknowledge the longstanding oppression of Black Americans more fully? “ ‘It takes about the past, it makes African-American communities vulnerable.” PBS, National about the past, it makes African-American communities vulnerable.’ ” — Guy Emerson

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Thanks to Haiti, slavery was permanently abolished | New York Carib News

As global protests continue in support of the Black Lives Matter movement to systematically exposed the legacies of slavery and colonialism today, we must remember where this all started.

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Source: The New York Carib News

What side are you on?

This election year will force America to choose between two very different ideas

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda (1632- )

St. Johns (population 22,342) is the capital of the Eastern Caribbean twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua, the largest of the English-speaking Leeward Islands, covers 108 square miles. Barbuda, a flat coral island with an area of only 68 square miles, lies approximately 30 miles

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Million$ drug bust - Ganja valued at J$10.5m seized, three Bahamians nabbed

The weed was confiscated in an operation at Lances Bay, Hanover, in which three Bahamian nationals were

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Trump Takes Credit For Making Juneteenth 'Very Famous'

Despite history’s efforts, Donald J. Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal this week that it was he who made the day so

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

Asheville, N. C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR

"The blood capital that we have banked to spend today to fight for significant change came ... not from our allies but from Black men, women and children who died," said Councilman Keith Young.

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Source: Stories About Black History

The History Of Juneteenth, And Why It Is Relevant Today

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with poet and lawyer CeLillianne Green about the history behind Juneteenth and what it means at this

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Source: Stories About Black History

Stand Down: New York Declines To Enlist African Americans For Civil War In July 1861

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (07/29/2011)(readMedia)-- Early in the Civil War, less than a century after black soldiers helped defeat the British to found America; New York, other states and the federal government refused to enlist black volunteers to fight in the bloody conflict which eventually decided

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Series of events in African American history

Between the years of 1500-1884, there was a series of events that happened in African American history. Between the 1500-1600s, there were slave revolts in the West Indies; from 1655-17-38, there was the war between the British and Maroons; in 1750, there was a British free trade in human flesh; in

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Juneteenth honors the memory of those who have lost their lives to racial violence | New Pittsburgh Courier

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing

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Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century

In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting goals of African Creoles, African Americans, and British and American colonizationists in the fate of the Rio Pongo Valley along the West Coast of Africa. Mouser

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Source: Black Past

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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An American Family's Multigenerational Rise from Slavery to Harvard University

In the account below, attorney and historian James H. Johnston describessix generations of descendants of Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim slave made famous by Charles Willson Peales 1819 painting of him in Georgetown in the District of Columbia. Johnstons discussion of the evolution of hisbook, From Slave

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Source: Black Past

Stay in the streets, y’all – it’s working

The historical role of policing in America in relationship to the Black community is not about law enforcement but rather enforcing the social norms of White

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