Major General Frederick E. Davidson

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Source: theGrio

Guinn v. United States (1915): The Grandfather Clause

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Source: Black Past

NBA Coaches Association Condemns Racial Injustice, Forms Committee

The NBA Coaches Association – of which Dallas Mavericks Head Coach Rick Carlisle is the president – recently released a statement condemning the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, and also announced the formation of a committee on racial injustice and

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Slave states and free states

An animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories, 1789-1861 (see also: separate yearly maps below). The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 1865, abolished slavery in thje

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Source: BlackHistory.com

OpEd: Be Brave Class of 2020 | Afro

I worry for all our Black sons in the class of 2020 as they leave the protection of their parents to participate in social-distanced celebrations, I am acutely aware of their risks amidst the racial

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Rwanda: APR Quartet in Final Talks With Club for New Contracts

Local giants APR have reportedly offered an extension until 2022 to four players who would otherwise be out of contract at the end of the 2019-20 Rwanda Premier League

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Source: allAfrica.com

Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads

Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Police headquarters closed after employee tests positive for Covid-19

The national police headquarters in Pretoria has closed temporarily after an employee tested positive for

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Source: https://www.news24.com

African-American women in computer science

Black women were among early pioneers in computing in the United States. Generally they were hired as mathematicians to do technical computing needed to support aeronautical and other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson, who had a career of decades at NASA.[1] Among her

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Source: ThoughtCo

U.S. National Archives Unearths Original Juneteenth Order

General Order No. 3 doesn't use the exalted language of some other documents central to American

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Source: Stories About Black History

Booker T. Washington's Visit to Spokane (1913)

In 1913 the famous African American activist and educator Booker T. Washington left Tuskegee, Alabama, to begin a speaking tour around the United States. The ultimate goal of this tour was to raise funds for the Tuskegee Institute in order to educate more young African Americans. Washington began

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Source: Black Past

Kenya: Emirates Skycargo Resumes Scheduled Cargo Flights to Eldoret International Airport

Eldoret — Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates has announced the resumption of its scheduled cargo services to

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Source: allAfrica.com

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940),[2] was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

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Source: ThoughtCo

Frederick Douglass Patterson

Frederick Douglass Patterson , (born October 10, 1901, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died April 26, 1988, New Rochelle, New York), American educator and prominent black leader, president of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (later Tuskegee Institute; now Tuskegee University) in 1935–53, and

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NBA Coaches Association Condemns Racial Injustice, Forms Committee

The NBA Coaches Association – of which Dallas Mavericks Head Coach Rick Carlisle is the president – recently released a statement condemning the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, and also announced the formation of a committee on racial injustice and

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

Drafting of final BBI report almost complete: Raila

Speaking after meeting women leaders at his Capitol Hill office in Nairobi, Mr Odinga revealed that the drafting of the final Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is at an advanced stage signifying the near return of the political

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

Lawrence D. McRae

Lawrence D. McRae is Executive Vice President Strategy and Corporate Development for Corning Inc. Larry McRae has served as executive vice president, Strategy and Corporate Development, since October 2010. In this position, he is responsible for developing strategic approaches for a broad range of

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Source: Savoy Network

Let’s rename Army bases honoring Confederate officers –

As commander of the Army of the Mississippi, Braxton Bragg (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) was outmaneuvered in several campaigns; defeated Union forces at Chickamauga but was then routed by U.S. Grant in the battle of

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Source: Florida Courier

Black division, under command

Black division, under command of Maj. Gen. Charles Paine, participated in Fort Fisher (N.C.) expedition which closed Confederates last major port.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

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1865

Georgia Legislature Passes Hate Crimes Bill in The Wake of Arbery’s Killing

The legislature of Georgia passed a hate crimes bill on Tuesday, and the proposed law will be moved to Governor Brian Kemp for

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Source: Your Black World

Eric D. Mullins

Eric D. Mullins serves as the Managing Director and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Lime Rock Resources, a company that he co-founded in 2005, which acquires, operates and improves lower-risk oil and natural gas

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Source: Savoy Network

Is This Mary Bowser?: The Use and Misuse of Photographs to Reconstruct History

Lois Leveen occupies an unusual role as both historian and novelist. Leveen is the author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser,which is based on the true story of a black woman who became a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the Civil War. Very few details about the historic Mary Bowser can

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Source: Black Past

Armed Black Activists Swarm Satilla Shores District Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Murdered

Legally armed black citizens and members of the New Black Party recently showed up in the predominately white neighborhood of Satilla Shores in Brunswick, Georgia where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, according to News

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Source: Your Black World

The Truth is No Longer Color Blind

The dastardly “his-storical” truth is that it’s all in plain old Black and White for the world to see, and that’s as near a reality as the distance from Minneapolis to Houston is as this potentially great nation struggles with the mounting police miscarriages, exposing continual systematic

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

African Americans 'probably ought to be' shot more by police, a top Tulsa officer said

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum on Wednesday blasted one of his police department's top commanders after the officer denied there's systemic racism in law enforcement, then said African Americans "probably ought to be" shot

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Union blows everyone away

Union exploded mine under rebel lines near Petersburg, committed three white and one Black divisions and was soundly defeated. Black division of Ninth Corps sustained heavy casualties in ill-planned attack. Only union success of day was scored by Forty-third U.S.C.T. which captured two hundred

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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1864

List of landmark African-American legislation

Ordinance of 1787: The Northwest Territorial Government (Northwest

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Source: ThoughtCo

Brown, Jesse (1944-2002)

Jesse Brown, wounded veteran and government official, was born on March 27, 1944 to Lucille Brown in Detroit, Michigan. His single-parent mother raised him in Chicago. Brown first attended Roosevelt University in Chicago and later graduated from Kennedy- King College in that same

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Source: Black Past

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Lincoln University [Jefferson City] (1866- )

Lincoln University is a public university located in Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri. It is a member of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and was founded in 1866 by members of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry and as such is the only black college

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