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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Tennessee advances 6-week abortion ban, lawsuit filed

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Amid nationwide unrest and a global pandemic that wrecked the state budget, Tennessee lawmakers advanced one of the strictest abortion bans in the country as most Tennesseans were asleep Friday and largely unaware the GOP-dominant General Assembly had taken up the

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

(1980) Thomas Sowell, “Politics and Opportunity: Background”

In December 1980, shortly after former California Governor Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a California-based public policy institute (think tank) sponsored the Black Alternatives Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San

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Source: Black Past

Two Liberty University Football Players Leave School Over Race Issues Days After Female Basketball Player Exits

One week after Asia Todd said she was leaving Liberty University and its women’s basketball team over “racial insensitivities, a pair of Liberty football players is making a similar

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

Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles

A little over 100 miles southwest of Sacramento in Santa Clara County, another African the top post of the region’s water utility last Richardson, Secretary, California Government Operations Agency

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Civil Rights workers disappear and are later found

Civil Rights workers disappear and are later found murdered near Philadelphia, Miss.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jun

21

1964

Local composer to conduct Mass concert in New York

Local composer, author and music specialist at Elm Creative Arts School in Milwaukee, Wallace McClain Cheatham will be conducting Franz Peter Schubert’s Mass In G Major for solo voice, chorus and full orchestra in May, 2021 at New York’s prestigious Carnegie

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Blacks held mass meeting in Norfolk (Va.) and

Blacks held mass meeting in Norfolk (Va.) and demanded equal rights and ballots. Other equal rights meetings and conventions were held in Petersburg, Va., June 6; Vicksburg, Miss., June 19; Alexandria, Va., August 3; Nashville, Tenn., August 7-11; Raleigh, N.C., September 29-October

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

11

1965

NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans

African Americans who smoke are nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a stroke than those who never smoked, while former smokers show a similarly lower risk as never smokers, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of

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Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Turning Discovery Into Health

Mrs. Evers Prays Husband’s Death ‘Was Not In Vain

Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi is a bitter state meeting pleas for equality with bigotry and

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Emmett Till

Emmett Till , in full Emmett Louis Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 1955, Money, Miss.), African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights

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Source: Brittanica

Jul

25

1941

‘My work is my signature’ Sign artist Max Massiah hangs up his brushes

After 29 years of painting signboards and logos for prestigious companies as well as productions held at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), signboard artist Max Massiah is looking to hang up his

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

Los Angeles newspaper owner and political activist Charlotta Bass began her career as a conservative Republican. By the 1940s, however, she moved to the political left. In 1948 she supported Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in his failed bid for the Presidency. Four years later she was

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Source: Black Past

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

HOPE for healthy teen relationships – May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month | The Mississippi Link

Dubbed by the federal agency as “ground-level change agents,” grantees like the Community Students Learning Center (CSLC) of Holmes County in partnership with the Holmes County Consolidated School District (HCCSD) and other key partners, are grateful to be among such

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Howard N. Lee and Charles Evers are elected the first African American mayors of

Howard N. Lee and Charles Evers are elected the first African American mayors of Chapel Hill, N.C. and Fayette, Miss., respectively

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

4

1969

Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove Confederate emblem from flag

The state flag of Mississippi flies at the Governor's Mansion in

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Source: theGrio

With a Pen Stroke, Mississippi Drops Confederate-themed Flag

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests - Blavity

Now, many Americans are experiencing, for the first time, a reality that Black people in this country have been living with since 1619: white supremacist terrorism supported by

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Source: Blavity News

William James "Willie" Dixon: Helped Shape the Post–World War II Sound of the Chicago Blues

William James “Willie” Dixon: Helped Shape the Post–World War II Sound of the Chicago Blues

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Source: Black Then

James H. Meredith Denied Admission to University

Governor Barnett personally denied James H. Meredith admission to the University of Mississippi.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Sep

20

1962

Loyola Marymount seeks to eradicate systemic racism

In a letter to the school community dated June 16, LMU President Timothy Law Snyder said he was reminded during a June 6 Black Lives Matter march he participated in “that the police violence and systemic racism that infects our society by killing Black people is a system in which I, as a white

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Source: Homepage -

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: One Participant Remembers

In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through

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Source: Black Past

As Palmdale Grapples With A Hanging Death, Locals Recall The Area's Racist History

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Source: Stories About Black History

Thomas Routt Scholarships

The Thomas H. Routt Scholarship Fund, in upholding the legacy of the late Judge Thomas H. Routt, has awarded $1,000 each in grants to Caleb J. James of North Shore High School and Jacob H. Boyd of Shadow Creek High School for

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Texas HHS Announces New Chief Operating Officer | Dallas Weekly

Texas HHS Announces New Chief Operating Officer

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1951 to 1959

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Source: ThoughtCo

Feb

4

2017

Dawn M. Jones Installed As 58th President Of State Bar of Georgia

Attorney Dawn M. Jones, managing member of The Firm of Dawn M. Jones, LLC in Atlanta, was installed as the 58th president of the 52,000-member State Bar of Georgia on June

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

Mississippi Lawmakers Face Pressure To Change State's Official Flag

Momentum is increasing to change Mississippi's official flag, which includes the Confederate battle flag's saltire.

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Source: Stories About Black History

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

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