Monkey See, Monkey Who? St. Louis Zoo Reveals Gender Of Endangered Baby Chimp | The Florida Star

Rapper Lil Marlo shot and killed in Atlanta | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

Rudolph Johnson, a rapper who performed under the name Lil Marlo, was shot and killed in Atlanta this weekend. Cause of death has yet to be determined, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office. The rapper, who signed with Quality Control Music in 2017 and was close friends with

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The Killing of Ahmaud

The two white men who shot Ahmaud Arbery did so operating on their basest, racist stereotypes of black men — the idea that black men are inherently dangerous and

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B.B. King

Riley B. King, better known by his stage name “B.B. King” is a famous African American blues musician. He was born on September 16, 1925 on a cotton plantation in Mississippi, to Albert King and Nora Ella Farr. His father left the family when King was very young, and his mother

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16

1925

Clay, William Lacy, Sr. (1931- )

Former Missouri Democratic Congressman William L. Clay Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 30, 1931, one of seven children. Clay excelled in school and at the age of thirteen began working as a janitor in a clothing store. He later became the tailor for the store. Clay graduated from

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Apr

30

1931

Madame C.J. Walker

Sarah Breedlove also known as Madam C.J. Walker was born in Delta, Louisana on the 23rd December 1867. Under the company she founded, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, she launched a line of hair products and beauty creams that propelled her to success. She was well known as

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Lincoln Kilpatrick: American Film, Television And Stage Actor

Lincoln Kilpatrick was an American film, television, and stage

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Dixon, Charles Dean (1915-1976)

Charles Dean Dixon, conductor, was born January 10, 1915 in New York, New York to West Indian parents Henry Charles Dixon and McClara Rolston Dixon. Dixon’s parents exposed him to classical music at an early age and his mother taught him to play the violin, along with a number of other

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Source: Black Past

Nov

4

1976

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 still stands strong in 2020 | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

Our laws are created to keep us from injustice. I spent many of my formative years in segregation, so I knew first-hand what injustice was. The Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. That signing occurred a long time ago, but sometimes it seems like

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Lemon, Don (1966- )

Don Carlton Lemon is a prominent, award-winning black television anchor in the United States. In 2011, he publicly came out as a gay man. In so doing, he became the most prominent African American journalist to announce his sexual orientation and was immediately considered a major role model for

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Mar

1

1966

Redd Foxx

John Elroy Sanford, commonly known as Redd Foxx, was an American comedian and actor, most active in the 1950s and 1960s. Born on December 9, 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri, Foxx has had a major impact on the current trajectories in stand-up comedy. Known most notably for his unconventionally explicit

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Josephine Baker dies

Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her stepfather. Surviving the 1917 riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, where the family was living, she ran away a few years alter at age thirteen and began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway. In 1925, she

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Apr

12

1975

“The Purge” Couple In St. Louis Who Pulled Guns on Peaceful Protestors To Be Investigated

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Getty

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Missouri Mayor doxxed those in favor of defunding the police

St. Louis city Mayor Lyda Krewson speaks at the Concordance Academy Gala at Ritz Carlton St. Louis on October 21, 2017 in St

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Tina Turner

Other names

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Nov

26

1939

Hoping To End Segregation in St. Louis

CORE chapter pressed sit-in campaign designed to end segregation in downtown facilities in St. Louis.

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Nov

25

1949

The True Plight of Black Americans

Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and

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African-American Businesswomen in the Jim Crow Era

Entrepreneur and social activist Maggie Lena Walkers famous quote is I am of the opinion [that] if we can catch the vision, in a few years we shall be able to enjoy the fruits from this effort and its attendant responsibilities, through untold benefits reaped by the youth of the

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Couple draw guns at crowd heading to St. Louis mayors home - Black News Channel

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as a group marched toward the mayors home to demand her resignation after she read the names and addresses of several residents who supported defunding the police department during an online briefing. A social media video

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Black Composers and Musicians in Classical Music History

Utilizing the research of Professor Dominique-René de Lerma of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, historian William J. Zick in the article below provides vignettes which comprise an overview of various composers and musicians of African ancestry who performed in Europe, North America, and

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May

24

1803

NFL Will Play Black National Anthem at Games | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the national anthem to bring awareness to social and other injustices faced regularly by Black and Brown individuals in America, the National Football League, President Donald Trump, and others wrongly associated the quarterback’s actions as

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Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society

In the article below Clarence Lang, an associate professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas describes his book, Grassroots at the Gateway which explores the changes in 20th Century St. Louiss political, economic, and social landscape and how those changes both

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Baker, Josephine (1906-1975)

In 1925 Josephine Baker took Paris, France by storm, appearing on stage in “La Revue Negre” wearing nothing but a skirt of artificial bananas in Danse Sauvage. Born Josephine Freda MacDonald in St. Louis, Missouri on June 3, 1906, she was nicknamed “Tumpy” because she was

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The True Plight of African-Americans.

Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and

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James Beckwourth, Pioneer/fur trader born

Born in Fredricksburg, VA to white master and Black slave

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Apr

6

1798

Josephine Baker

Who Was Josephine

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List of U.S. metropolitan areas with large African-American populations

14 St. Louis, Missouri (MO-IL) MSA 516,446

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Report: Structural racism — from segregated housing to limited job opportunities — responsible for high rate of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans

Long-established elements of structural racism, from substandard housing to mass incarceration to limited job opportunities, are responsible for the disproportionate toll COVID-19 is taking on African Americans in Chicago and elsewhere, a new paper from the Chicago Urban League argues.The

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William Wells Brown: First African-American Novelist and Playwright

In 1847, while speaking to members of the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, Ma., abolitionist William Wells Brown said, Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery, to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation, I should wish to take you, one at a time, and whisper it to

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Maya Angelou

Born: 4/4/1928 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 5/28/2014 Winston-Salem, North CarolinaMaya Angelou was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television

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VIDEO: Rashard Brooks and the Tale of Two Police Officers and Officer Discretion

Dr. Gathe, who serves as the co-director of the COVID-19 Dedicated Care Unit at the United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), said he got a call one day from Dr. Varon, and they began discussing patients they had recently seen that had been getting sick with this unusual new

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