National Black convention met at Buffalo, New

No Time to Grieve: How COVID-19 Has Changed Funerals and Mourning – Voice and Viewpoint

The service, handled by Morgan Jones Funeral Home in Sacramento, lasted no more than seven minutes, and the 10 people who attended the burial stayed in their

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

An Afternoon of Accolades for a Deserving Servant

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Source: The Christian Recorder

Songstress Sherri Brown Takes Center Stage, even in Pandemic

Thanks to virtual performances, Brown has been able to salvage some of her plans and still gain

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Source: The Birmingham Times

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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Where the Black Church Is in the Black Lives Matter Movement – Free Press of Jacksonville

“While you may have had many black pastors and clergy who may have shown up at events, and you may have had a lot of people from black churches who were at these marches and protests, from 2014 to the present, by and large, this has not been a theological movement,” said Watson Jones III, the

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"

In early March 1965 much of the nations attention was focused on civil rights marches in and around Selma, Alabama. Activists led by Dr. Martin Luther King used these demonstrations to urge the federal government to act to end the denial of voting rights to tens of thousands of African Americans

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Michigan pastor says white woman coughed on him for not wearing mask

(credit: screenshot) A Michigan pastor says a white woman coughed in his face after he forgot his mask outside a pizza place and declares it be to an act of “racism.” Michael Hale Jr. told Fox 2 Detroit that he and his wife were waiting for their order outside of Belle Isle Pizza on

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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"

The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates a dozen states. Among the delegates were young, rising leaders in the African American community including Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Charles B. Ray and Charles L. Remond. Twenty-seven

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Civil Rights Pioneers to Protesters: Accomplish Something

Several veteran marchers from the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement said they watched in horror last week as protesters rampaged through the city burning buildings, breaking windows, and causing damage to

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Pandemic Power: Black women mayors shine during COVID-19 Crisis

“As the mayor of Georgia’s largest city, I expressed opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp’s recent order allowing certain businesses—dine-in restaurants, gyms, hair and nail salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys—to reopen before health experts say doing so is

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) - Birthday

Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey on April 9, 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson, the pastor of Princeton’s Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, and Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson.

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President Trump deems churches ‘essential’, calls for churches to reopen – Black pastors are hesitant | The Mississippi Link

President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration deemed houses of worship “essential” and called on governors to allow churches to reopen amid the COVID-19

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Sister Tarpley: Called to the ministry

– 1 Corinthians 7:20

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

Mourners bid farewell to Rayshard Brooks at historic church

ATLANTA (AP) — Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Masks Handed Out to Help St. Louis-Area Black Churches Open | Afro

By Jim Salter

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Compton Pastor Vows to Reopen Church When Holy Spirit Directs Him

Compton Pastor Ron C. Hill says he’ll be guided by the Holy Spirit on when to reopen his church, not by California’s governor, who ordered churches to close in March as part of the state’s stay-at-home COVID-19

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Amelia Etta (A.E.) Hall: Minister & Children’s Author

Hall moved to Baltimore, MD in 1874 where she met and married activist, author, and pastor of Union Baptist Church, Reverend Dr. Harvey

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Source: Black Then

‘I am a pastor, not a politician’ - Firebrand clergyman, Bishop Rowan Edwards says he wants to remain non-partisan to fulfil his mandate

Two of Jamaica’s more prominent pastors said that while the formation of another political party is good for democracy, they have no intention of being a candidate when the newly formed Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) contests the next general

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

“I’m Not Finna Patty Cake And Accommodate No More”: Lecrae Says He Learned A Valuable Lesson After “White Blessing” Controversy

Christian rapper Lecrae sat down with the hosts of radio show, The Morning Hustle, to talk about the kerfuffle that transpired when he was witness to a conversation with christian leaders, where a prominent white pastor tried to re-brand the phrase “white privilege” as “white

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Ancestry of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to a long line of preachers. His father, Martin Luther King, Sr. was a pastor for the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His maternal grandfather, the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, was famous for his fiery sermons. His

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U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962

Many Americans are familiar with the now iconic images of James Meredith, the black student who desegregated the University of Mississippi in October 1962, surrounded by white U.S. marshals assigned to protect him and ensure that a U.S. Supreme Court desegregation order be enforced. Few of us are

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News You Ought to Know

DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines has banned a man who was kicked off a plane for refusing to wear a face covering, among the first such incidents since airlines promised to step up enforcement of their mask

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

Mayor: Manchester MC not daunted by corruption scar

MAYOR OF Mandeville Donovan Mitchell said the Manchester Municipal Corporation is not daunted by the negative labels that have been ascribed to the corporation since three of its former employees were found guilty, following a $400-million fraud

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Nigeria: U.S. Condemns Killing of Civilians in Nigeria By Boko Haram, ISWAP

Abuja — The United States government Wednesday condemned what it described as the "brazen killings of civilians" by terrorist groups, Boko Haram and the Islamic State for West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North-east as well as armed bandits in the North-west and North-central parts

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Source: allAfrica.com

Racially Motivated Slayings

Buffalo, N.Y., grand jury indicted Pvt. Joseph G. Christopher of the U.S. Army on murder charges stemming from the racially motivated slayings of three Blacks in September, 1980.

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1981

Juneteenth, Not July 4th: Ways to Celebrate it this Year

I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass

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Jamaica: Pastor faces rape, fraud charges

(Jamaica Observer) A St Catherine pastor has been charged with three counts of rape and obtaining money by false pretence, as a result of investigations into his actions, which allegedly span several years, the police said

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Funeral Plans Announced for Rayshard Brooks

A funeral service for Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Atlanta earlier this month, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the city's historic Ebenezer Baptist

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Source: The Washington Informer

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

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1865

Wright, Theodore Sedgwick (ca. 1797-1847)

Theodore Sedgwick Wright, prominent clergyman, antislavery leader, and reformer was thought to have been born in New Jersey in 1797. He attended the New York African Free School. With the help of New York Governor Dewitt Clinton, Arthur Tappan and others from Princeton Theological Seminary, he

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