Morgan State College was founded in Maryland, 1872

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The term black church or African-American church refers to Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist

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Partners in Primary Care expanding throughout Houston, hiring locally

More seniors in and around Houston will have access to personalized, senior-focused primary health care when Partners in Primary Care adds 10 new medical centers in the metro area over the next

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Milesplit USA gives Aggies class a grade of A-minus

N.C. A&T’s director of track and field programs announced the addition of four high school athletes and three

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Stokes Named President of Downtown Partnership | Afro

Shelonda Stokes, a well-connected Baltimore business leader has been named president and executive of the influential Downtown

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NASA Names Headquarters After 'Hidden Figure' Mary W. Jackson

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at

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States failed to get absentee ballots to thousands of voters in recent primary elections, signaling problems for November | The Atlanta Voice

Miller and Sheth are among tens of thousands of voters who didn’t get their requested absentee ballots in recent primaries, including in the battleground states of Georgia and

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Doing more, with less – Protecting our frontline workers

For more than a decade, U.S. Black Chambers has led the fight on Capitol Hill and in corporate board rooms on behalf of the country’s more than 3 million Black

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Former NAACP President Ben Jealous Named President of People For the American Way

Former NAACP president Ben Jealous has been tapped to lead People For the American Way (PFAW), a progressive advocacy

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Alsobrooks Promotes Velez as Prince George’s Interim Police Chief

One day after accepting the resignation of Prince George's County Police Chief Hank Stawinski, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced Friday the police department's second-in-command will take

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House Democrats File Bill Nixing Citizenship data-gathering

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration would be barred from gathering citizenship data through administrative records under a bill introduced Monday in the House, marking the latest challenge to an order Trump issued after the Supreme Court nixed his plan to put a citizenship

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Brown, Wesley (1927-2012) - Death

Wesley Brown died of cancer on May 22, 2012 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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VIDEO: Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’

Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police

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VIDEO: Donald Trump Jr. set his sights on big tech months before his father’s feud with Twitter | Afro

Months before President Donald Trump signed his May 28 executive order targeting social media platforms, the White House and members of the Trump family were debating how to battle the tech

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VIDEO: Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’

Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police

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DMV’s Coronavirus Cases Exceed 121,000

Health officials in the District, Maryland and Virginia say more than 121,000 people have now been diagnosed with the

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Black Health Matters Launch New Channel | Dallas Weekly

Black Health launched a new Kidney Disease

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Former Baltimore Mayor Pleads Guilty to Perjury Charge

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore’s disgraced former mayor pleaded guilty to a state perjury charge Friday for failing to disclose a business interest relating to her “Healthy Holly” children’s books on her financial disclosure forms when she was a state

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Ben Jealous - Wikipedia

After completing his degree at Oxford and returning to the US, Jealous worked as Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of more than 200 black community

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Q: It has been a few years since you were last featured in Savoy Magazine. Catch us up on what you’ve been

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OE-ED: We Have a Right to be Angry!

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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COMMENTARY: Obama’s Popularity Continues to Rise Amid Trump’s Rhetoric | Afro

I think he’s extremely popular right now because Trump has pretty much failed in every way possible – especially on the points where he said he could and would do things better than Obama did,” New York resident Alicia Butler told NNPA

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COVID-19 : We Must Improve Minority Participation in Clinical Trials

In addition, sterilizing Native American women without their consent, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, led to a justifiable fear and luck of trust by people of color regarding clinical trial participation in the

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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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Open Letter to Editor: Black Lives Matter | Afro

Real criminal justice reform starts with repealing Truth –in- Sentencing “Proposal X” in Virginia, the most prominent sentencing reform movement of the 1990’s, implemented under segregationist George Allen (Governor 1994 – 1998), to effectively restrict and eliminate parole eligibility and good

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Tunisia: Extension of Maturities Will Result in Shortfall for Banks of 600 Md (AFC)

Tunis/Tunisia — The impact of the postponement of maturities of loans granted by banks to individuals, for three months, will result in a loss of income on the net banking product (NBP) of nearly 595 million dinars (MD), for the entire Tunisian banking sector (listed and unlisted), over the average

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MGM National Harbor to Reopen on June 29

MGM National Harbor, Maryland's biggest casino, will reopen to the general public on June 29, the casino resort announced

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Mayor Young Announces Extension of Grocery Access Pilot Program in West and South Baltimore Through August | Afro

Mayor Young Announces Extension of Grocery Access Pilot Program in West and South Baltimore Through August

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Coronavirus cases are spiking across the country and experts say Florida has the makings of the next epicenter | The Atlanta Voice

Ten states saw a record number of new Covid-19 cases this week, and one of them could be the next epicenter of the

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