Norma Merrick Sklarek

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Norma Merrick Sklarek

Norma Merrick Sklarek was the first black woman to become a licensed architect

in the state of New York and California.

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Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti (1749 - )

Port-au-Prince is the capital, largest city, commercial center, and chief port of the Republic of Haiti. Some 90% of Haiti’s investments and jobs are found in Port-au-Prince. Estimated to be about 1.2 million inhabitants (and nearly three million inhabitants in the metropolitan area), the city

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Source: Black Past

Merriwether, Raymond (1924–2011) - Birthday

Raymond (Ray) Merriwether, prominent Seattle, Washington African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper owner, was born in Taylor, Texas on June 19, 1924 to Colie and Annie Merriwether.

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Source: Black Past

Jun

19

1924

Is It Safe to Fly Right Now? Here’s What Experts Have to Say – Free Press of Jacksonville

Some airlines, like JetBlue , even require passengers to wear face coverings over their mouths and noses throughout check-in, boarding, in flight, and while deplaning, while others may only require that masks be worn on

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

CCHR Applauds State Acting on African American Teen Psychiatric Restraint Death

Mental Health Watchdog and Task Force Against Institutional Racism Leader say Michigan could potentially lead the way for national restraint death reform

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Reddit, Twitch clamp down Trumpist forums for hate speech

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Source: theGrio

California Moves One Step Closer to Granting Parolees Right to Vote – Voice and Viewpoint

Assemblymember Kevin McCarty’s (D-Sacramento) Assembly Constitutional Amendment 6 (ACA 6) passed out of the California State Senate last

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Comerica Bank and National Business League Announce $1 Million Commitment to Support Black-Owned Small Businesses

Comerica Bank recently announced its $1 million commitment over four years to the National Business League as part of a national partnership that will launch the Black Capital Access Program (BCAP), an access to capital initiative to assist Black businesses across the

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

Dr. Fauci says US coronavirus cases to reach 'disturbing' 100,000 per day

(Photo by Al Drago - Pool/Getty

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Source: theGrio

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

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

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Source: Stories About Black History

Dr. Dre’s wife Nicole Young files for divorce after more than 20 years

Dr. Dre’s wife Nicole Young filed for divorce from the rapper after 24 years of marriage on

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Source: theGrio

The beat of a culture: how HBCU bands relate to Black music legacy

READ MORE: Little Richard will be buried at Alabama HBCU he attended in the 1950s

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Source: theGrio

Streeter, Mel (1931-2006)

Mel Streeter was born in Riverside, California in 1931. He attended the University of Oregon on a basketball scholarship and was the second African-American basketball player at Oregon after declining an offer by legendary basketball coach John Wooden to attend UCLA, because UCLA did not have an

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Source: Black Past

Jun

15

2006

FIGHTING THE ENEMY WITHIN | The Crusader Newspaper Group

One of these schisms is between two different groups of Black people: the “maskers” and the

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Bio of South African Leader Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

National Party Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination on 6 September 1966, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was the chief architect of Grand Apartheid, which called for the separation of races in South

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Source: ThoughtCo

African-American self-determination

African-American self-determination refers to efforts to secure self-determination for African-Americans and related peoples in North America. It often intersects with the historic Back-to-Africa movement and general Black separatism, but also manifests in present and historic demands for

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Source: ThoughtCo

A look back at Tesla's extraordinary decade

No other electric car comes close

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Source: TechCentral

Rwanda: UN Prosecutor Wants Kabuga Temporarily Transferred to the Hague Due to COVID-19

The Prosecutor of the of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT) has requested that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga is temporarily transferred to the The Hague in The

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Source: allAfrica.com

As Numbers Spike, California To Begin “Smart Testing” for COVID-19

By Tanu Henry, California Black Media

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019, AP sources say

Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the

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Source: theGrio

Gilead's $2,340 Price For Coronavirus Drug Draws Criticism

The maker of a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill COVID-19 patients says it will charge $2,340 for a typical treatment course for people covered by government health programs in the United States and other developed

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

King, Horace (1807-1885) - Birthday

Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in West Georgia, Northern Alabama and northeast Georgia in the period between the 1830s and 1870s.

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Source: Black Past

Sep

8

1807

OP-ED: Joe Biden Attacks Freethinking Black Americans while President Trump Empowers Them

In 2016, President Trump looked at the conditions and statistics of many predominantly Black cities in America and saw that despite being led by Liberal lawmakers, our communities were faced with high crime, high unemployment, and poor public

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Mary J. Blige Shines With Sun Goddess Wine Launch!

MJB is giving us the wine 411 with the launch of her wine line— Sun Goddess

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

John C. Norman Jr: Cardiovascular Surgeon and Artificial Heart Pioneer

In 1962, Dr. Norman was a National Institutes of Health fellow at England’s University of Birmingham and, in 1964, he joined the surgical staff at Boston City Hospital while serving as an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical

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Source: Black Then

Tamir Rice's mother calls out artists using her son's image without permission

Samaria Rice (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Bridges, Leon (1932- )

Leon Bridges is recorded as the founder of the second African American-owned firm in Seattle. He was born on August 18, 1932 in Los Angeles, California. In high school he was told by a counselor that he couldnt become an architect because he was black, and then while a student in high school he met

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Source: Black Past

Aug

18

1932

Advocate for Community Development

Charles 'Chuck' Turner, executive director of the Center for Community Action, has been a community organizer, activist, and advocate for Boston's African-American community for over 20 years. He has a record of effectively organizing people to confront city and state agencies for jobs, affordable

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Movements Are Nothing Without Endurance

Movements Are Nothing Without Endurance

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Source: https://zora.medium.com

Jadakiss becomes trending topic following Fabolous 'Verzuz' battle

This week’s battle between Fabolous and Jadakiss was highly-anticipated by Hip-Hop

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Source: theGrio

Waters: 'Trump more focused on saving statues of slaveholders and Confederate generals than protecting Americans from coronavirus' | The Atlanta Voice

Instead, we are left with Donald Trump, an incompetent and heartless man who is more focused on saving statues of slaveholders, Confederate generals, and racists, than protecting the health of living and breathing

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

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