Naval Medal of Honor

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Biden's 'Breakfast Club' blunder is a teachable moment for white liberals

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Source: theGrio

African-Americans Are Highly Visible in the Military, but Almost Invisible at the Top

Of the 41 most senior commanders in the military — those with four-star rank in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard — only two are black: Gen. Michael X. Garrett, who leads the Army’s Forces Command, and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr, the commander of Pacific Air

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Source: Unpublished Black History

Jewell D. Hoover

Jewell D. Hoover is President and Principal of Hoover and Associates, LLC. Hoover worked at the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for 28 years prior to starting her own company. Hoover joined the OCC in 1975 as a National Bank Examiner and, at various times, supervised banks in the Northeast and

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Source: Savoy Network

Ronald McNair - Birthday

Ronald McNair , in full Ronald Erwin McNair (born October 21, 1950, Lake City, South Carolina, U.

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Source: Brittanica

Oct

21

1950

Senator Tim Scott Asking Questions That He Already Knows The Answer To.

The harsh reality is that for the entirety of America’s existence, neither political party has offered Blacks a significant opening to exercise the theoretical equality promoted in a series of Civil Rights and Voting Rights

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

For the slave act of 1793, see Fugitive Slave Act of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Sep

18

1850

Joe Biden endorsed by Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Former Vice President Joe Biden, sided by Dr. Jill Biden delivers remarks at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA on March

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Source: theGrio

Biden plans to pick a female running mate. Would it make a difference if she's black?

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Source: Yahoo

Hallie Quinn Brown: Harlem Renaissance Figure

Known for: popular lecturer and dramatic elocutionist, role in Harlem Renaissance, preservation of Frederick Douglass home; African American educator

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Source: ThoughtCo

Joe Biden Apologizes For The "You Ain’t Black’ Quip with Charlamagne Tha God

Earlier today, The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God did a virtual interview with presidential candidate Joe Biden and after the conclusion of discussing several topics, Biden, smiling as he says it, remarks to Charlamange that, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Rear Admiral in U.S. Navy

Wendell Norman Johnson of Boston rose to the rank of Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy in 1983 and was Commander (1987-1989) of the U.S. Naval Base in Charleston, South Carolina, the third largest naval base in the United States.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Freeman, Harry Lawrence (1869-1954)

Composer, performer, musical critic/essayist, advocate, and teacher H. Lawrence Freeman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1869 to Lemuel Freeman and Agnes Sims-Freeman. Initially self-taught, Freeman’s musical abilities were apparent at a young age. At 12, he started and performed in a boy’s vocal

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Source: Black Past

55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1863-1865)

The 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment made up of men who wanted to enter the already full 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 54th was the first officially recognized black military unit in the United States. When

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Source: Black Past

Althea Gibson - Biography of Tennis Pioneer

Tennis, which first came to the United States in the late 19th century, by the middle of the 20th century had become part of a culture of health and fitness. Public programs brought tennis to children in poor neighborhoods, though those children couldnt dream of playing in the elite tennis

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Source: ThoughtCo

Plans Unveiled for the Phased Reopening of Walt Disney World Resort Theme Parks, Resort Hotels and Disney Stores

Today, we submitted a proposal to the Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force in Florida describing our approach for a phased reopening of Walt Disney World Resort theme parks planned to begin on July

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Change

Assertive, foresighted and progressive political leadership among Black elected officials has been wanton in the past, and now, Black folks must decide who to elect as we’re faced with some of the gravest challenges of our

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Rawles, George Washington (1845–1922)

George Rawles was born in South Carolina to a young slave mother owned by Benjamin Rawles II. At the age of 17 and now living in Perry County, Mississippi, he was given to his master’s son, Benjamin Rawles III to be his body servant during the Civil War. Both men enlisted in the Confederate Army

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Source: Black Past

May

22

1922

(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898

Long termed a “race riot,” the turmoil that enveloped Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 is now called an armed insurrection. White supremacists drove from power all of the black and white elected officials of this predominately African American city in what was believed to

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Source: Black Past

Nov

10

1898

‘A giant of integrity and knowledge has fallen’: Washington reacts to the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings

May his memory be for

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Source: Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis - The Washington Post

Oct

17

2019

Ernest Just

Ernest Just was born on August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother worked as a school teacher and his father, a dock worker, died when Ernest was only four years old, forcing him to have to work in the fields after school each day. Because high schools in the South provided such poor

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Source: Black History Resources

Nov

26

2012

Darius Rucker - Birthday

Rucker was born on May 13, 1966 in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Source: Black History Resources

May

13

1966

(1871) Congressman Robert C. DeLarge, “Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment”

Robert Carlos DeLarge served as a Republican member of the U.S. Congress less than a full term. He was elected in 1870 and began his term on March 4, 1871. However he left Congress on January 24, 1873 within two months of the completion of his term when the seat was declared vacant as the result of

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Source: Black Past

List of African-American U.S. state firsts

African Americans are a demographic minority in the United States. African-Americans initial achievements in various fields historically establish a foothold, providing a precedent for more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is breaking the color

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Source: ThoughtCo

Ernest Just - Birthday

Ernest Just was born on August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Source: Black History Resources

Aug

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1883

Fax, Elton (1909-1993)

Elton Clay Fax, a prolific African-American cartoonist, author, and illustrator, was born on October 9, 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Mark Oakland Fax, a clerk, and Willie Estelle Fax, a seamstress. Elton’s younger brother, Mark, was a music prodigy who worked as a composer later

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Source: Black Past

May

13

1993

Black populism

Following the collapse of Reconstruction, African Americans created a broad-based independent political movement in the South: Black

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Source: ThoughtCo

History of African Americans in Detroit

In 2002, within the city of Detroit there were 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of the population.[1] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people.[2] Southfield had a black population

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Source: ThoughtCo

Simmons, William J. (1849-1890)

Born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina on June 29, 1849, William J. Simmons served as the second president of what would later become Simmons College of Kentucky between 1880 and 1890. He was also a prominent historian and biographer of African American men. Simmons’s parents were Edward

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Source: Black Past

Jun

29

1849

More than $640K awarded for COVID-19 Relief and Recovery in coastal SC

Coastal Community Foundation and its regional partners in the COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund announced May 27 that more than $2.1 million has been raised since the fund’s inception, and $641,745 has been awarded so far to nonprofits across coastal South Carolina to support communities impacted by

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

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