Meagan Good Says BET Wouldn’t Let Her Present At Awards After She Refused To Joke About Blue Dress Controversy

Jordan, June (1936-2002)

June Meyer Jordan, writer, editor, poet, educator, environmental and social activist, was the only child of Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maude Fischer Jordan who were Jamaican immigrants. June was born in Harlem on July 9, 1936. June’s father worked as a night shift postal clerk and her mother

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‘I Thought This Was Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks’: Tami Roman Posts Throwback Picture with 'RHOA' Star Kenya Moore, Fans Do a Double Take

Tami Roman shared a throwback photo from a project she worked on with “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kenya Moore, a snapshot that caused some fans to question who was right before their

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Lesotho: Adopt New Policies to Revive Economy, Prime Minister Majoro Urged

Lesotho's business community, civic groups and the diplomatic sector say they expect newly sworn Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro to pursue new policies to revive the comatose economy and improve the livelihoods of

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Source: allAfrica.com

FedEx Accused Of Firing Black Driver Who Recorded Encounter With Racist Customer

The driver took to Twitter and said he was defiantly posting the video he recorded with an angry customer despite FedEx demanding it get taken

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Source: NewsOne

Kandi Burruss Wins Season 3 Of ‘The Masked Singer’

Source: FOX / Getty

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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentive Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts

(NNPA) – National Football League teams must now interview at least two minority candidates for head coaching positions under new resolutions that the league hopes will improve diversity among its 32

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Henry Cavill In Talks To Return As Superman In The DCEU

It’s been 7 years since Zack Snyder and Henry Cavill breathed new life into the long dormant and left for dead Superman film franchise and though Superman V Batman and Justice League pretty much ruined the foundation set in 2013, we still very much like Cavill as the Man of

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Source: The Urban Daily

Kenya: Why Stella Won't Be Landing at JKIA Today

"We, unfortunately, cannot bring #Stella home this year, but we look forward to welcoming her and her family same time next year," KQ

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Source: allAfrica.com

GECOM needs to clear the air as often as necessary on the recount

Having observed the varying perspectives put forward by the political parties as to what the National Recount exercise entails the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has the responsibility to ensure the society is knowledgeable of events as they

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Wyclef Jean

Name at birth: Nel Ust Wycliffe Jean

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After the Storm, Churches will open again, But it’s good to know where our faith stands | The Crusader Newspaper Group

I stand in this state of suspended animation that now exists between the birth of Pentecostalism and the Mega-church and prosperity doctrine, where COVID-19 has forced church services to the Internet and, for some, reduced the administering of Holy Communion recently to pre-Easter drive-thrus and

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth began life as a slave and ended it as a celebrated anti-slavery activist. She was born in New York and was sold several times before escaping to freedom with an infant daughter in 1827. She worked as a housekeeper, lived in a religious commune, and eventually became a travelling

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Alex Haley

Alex Haley wrote Roots, one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s. Haley spent 20 years in the Coast Guard (1939-59) then began a second career as a writer, working for magazines ranging from Readers Digest to Playboy. Haley was a ghostwriter on his first major book: The Autobiography of

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentive Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Kenya: Jubilee Vows to Crack Whip on Errant MPs

Ten MPs allied to Deputy President William Ruto have accused the party leadership of using State agencies to harass and intimidate

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cleaver, Eldridge

Cleaver, Eldridge | FactMonster

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Etta James

Name at birth: Jamesetta Hawkins

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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts | Afro

National Football League teams must now interview at least two minority candidates for head coaching positions under new resolutions that the league hopes will improve diversity among its 32

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

(1850) Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen, “I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law”

A month after the infamous Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress, Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872), a fugitive slave from Tennessee, persuaded his adopted hometown, Syracuse, New York, to declare that city a refuge for liberated slaves. On October 4, 1850, the people of Syracuse filled

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Kenya: Nairobi Continental Tour Meeting Adopts the Name 'Kip Keino Classic'

At the same time, Sports Kenya has described the Nyayo National Stadium as an ideal venue for the "Kip Keino Classic" and is now pushing for a new and modern tartan track to be laid at the 30,000-seater

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola Play Indoor Soccer World Cup in 2021

Luanda — The five-a-side soccer World Cup, in which Angola will be present for the first time in Lithuania, has been postponed for September 13 to October 4 of 2021, one year after the initial date set by the International Federation of Associated Football

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Source: allAfrica.com

Hickman, George W., Jr. (1924–2012)

George Hickman was a Tuskegee airman during the World War II. Later in his life, he was a fixture at Seattle sporting events, working as an usher at University of Washington games and Seattle Seahawk football

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Josh Gibson

Josh Gibson was an American Negro League professional baseball player. He was born in Buena Vista, Georgia on December 21, 1911. His father had a farm there but he moved the family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Gibson was studying to be an electrician and only attended school till the 9th grade. He

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Magic Johnson

Name at birth: Earvin

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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts

In an expansion of its Rooney Rule, which had previously called on teams to interview minority candidates, the league said teams must also interview at least one minority candidate for coordinator openings and one external candidate for positions in teams’ front

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Source: The Florida Star

Triston scandal: welcome home, Yagnesh Devani

Devani, a man with a deceitful persona, was in a class of his own and when he pulled the Triton scam, he not only left the country reeling with an oil shortage but left so many unanswered

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

Paul Robeson and Japanese Americans, 1942-1949

One hero and friend of Japanese Americans, both individuals and the community generally, was Paul Robeson. Robeson was (after Joe Louis) the most popular and visible African American of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a celebrated stage actor and movie star, an internationally famous folk

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Source: Black Past

Hotels teeter on brink of collapse as Covid-19 bites

With zero per cent occupancy, Mr Ishpal Oberoi has to cough up Sh1.4 million every month to maintain his hotel on the shores of the Indian

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

Copeland, Misty (1982- )

Misty Copeland is one of only a handful of African American soloist ballerinas in the world. When Copeland was just a newborn two ballerinas, Anne Benna Sims and Nora Kimball, respectively, became the first and second African American soloists for the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in New

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A Classic Essay by Frederick Douglass, American Slave

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