Rev. George Leile

Congdon Street Baptist Church (1819- )

Congdon Street Baptist Church is the oldest African American church in Rhode Island. The church, located on College Hill, sprang from the effort of the black community in the city to provide a place for people of color to worship and a locale for a secular school for black children in the

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Source: Black Past

Mar

9

1819

The parables of Jesus modernized for a contemporary audience (Week 3)

The inspiration for this series is Pastor Fred L. Crouther, New Covenant Baptist Church, Milwaukee, and how he is able to take a parable of Jesus and preach on its applicability and usefulness by modernizing it for today’s contemporary

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Afrocentrism

For the study of African culture and history, see African

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John Parker

John P. Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was white and his mother was a black slave. John was sold to a slave agent in 1835 and then sold to a slave caravan which took him to Mobile, Alabama where he was purchased by a physician. Working as a house servant, Parker learned to

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Source: Black History Resources

Nov

26

2012

Abolitionism in the United States

Not to be confused with Prohibition in the United

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

J. C. Lewis Healthcare Partners With Tremont Temple Missionary Baptist Church for COVID 19 Testing

Last Friday, Tremont Temple Missionary Baptist Church teamed up with J. C. Lewis Healthcare to provide COVID-19 testing to church members as well as neighborhood residents. Testing time was from 9am-noon in the church parking lot.

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

Trinidad: Religious organisations not rushing to reopen

(Trinidad Guardian) Religious organisations will now be allowed to open the doors of their worship centres for Corpus Christi on Thursday after Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday announced Government was moving up the previously-announced opening date by one

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Religion in Black America

Religion in Black America refers to the religious and spiritual practices of blacks and people of African descent in the United States. Historians generally agree that the religious life of Black Americans forms the foundation of their community life.[1] Before 1775 there was scattered evidence of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Access to Wellness Resources and Healthy Food Started with a Nurse from the Neighborhood

Julia Means, community a nurse with Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital is known throughout her neighborhood as ‘The

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Freedom Day: Hip-Hop Wired’s Juneteenth Playlist Courtesy Of The WK UP

For Juneteenth, and frankly, for any occasion, we at Hip-Hop Wired have compiled a short collection of songs to accompany your

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Source: The Urban Daily

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

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Source: Stories About Black History

Black Power movement

The Black Power movement was a political movement to achieve a form of Black Power and the many philosophies it contains. The movement saw various forms of activism some violent and some peaceful, all hoping to achieve black empowerment. The Black Power movement also represented socialist

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest , (born July 13, 1821, near Chapel Hill, Tennessee, U.S.—died October 29, 1877, Memphis, Tennessee), Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War (1861–65) who was often described as a “born military genius.” His rule of action, “Get there first

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Source: Brittanica

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13

1821

Ailey, Alvin (1931-1989)

Alvin Ailey was born in Rodgers, Texas during the Great Depression. He overcame racism, poverty, and homophobia to become one of the most celebrated choreographers in American history. His single teenage mother Lula Ailey washed clothes, picked cotton, and worked in domestic service in various

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Source: Black Past

CORONA-NNOUNCEMENTS

The six-week sessions beginning June 15 and continuing through Aug. 14 are available to 1,000 eligible economically disadvantaged Miami-Dade and Monroe County high school

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Source: South Florida Times

The parables of Jesus modernized for a contemporary audience (Week 2)

When I think about how God’s Word still teaches us today through its timeless truths, my mind inherently turns to the spiritual insight we continue to glean from the parables Jesus spoke during His earthly

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)

African-American Civil Rights Movement redirects here. For the movement in the early 20th century, see African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954). For the movement in the 19th century, see African-American Civil Rights Movement

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Sunbelt states rush to line up hospital beds, not barstools

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida and other states across the Sunbelt are thinning out the deck chairs, turning over the bar stools and rushing to line up more hospital beds as they head into the height of the summer season amid a startling surge in confirmed cases of the

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Oliver O. Howard

Oliver O. Howard , in full Oliver Otis Howard (born Nov. 8, 1830, Leeds, Maine, U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1909, Burlington, Vt.), U.S. Union officer in the American Civil War (1861–65) who headed the Freedmen’s Bureau (1865–72) to help rehabilitate former slaves during the period of

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Source: Brittanica

Democratic Party Primary Runoff Election

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Friends & ‘Community Fathers’: Fred L. Davis, the Rev. Tim Russell

Two such “fathers’ – prominent businessman and Memphis City Council trailblazer Fred L. Davis, and the Rev. Tim Russell, an associate pastor at Second Presbyterian Church, died recently within weeks of each

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Dr. Ellis Wilkins, Pastor of Damascus Missionary Baptist Church, celebrates 90th birthday with surprise drive-by

Did they know they had reached a pivotal point in history in giving birth to a great man who would touch and change so many

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Boseman, Benjamin Anthony (1840-1881)

Benjamin A. Boseman, physician, politician, and postmaster, was free born in New York in 1840 to Benjamin A. and Annaretta Boseman. He was the oldest of five children, two girls and three boys. Boseman grew up in Troy, New York where his father served as a steward on the steamboat Empire in the

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Source: Black Past

Feb

23

1881

Kenneth Rembert: Virtual Jam Sessions on the Keys

Rembert, 25, is a full-time musician, gospel music producer, studio musician, and keyboardist for the band Precision Grooves and smooth jazz guitarist Nick

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Virtual Community Calendar: Week of June 28

Join Senator Royce West on a Virtual Community Conversation across Texas by attending this virtual town

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett: United States Ambassador to Haiti in 1869

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett was an African American who was appointed United States Ambassador to Haiti in

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Source: Black Then

American Civil War

698,000 (peak)[3] [better source

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks, an ex-slave from Framingham was the first to die in the Boston Massacre (1770), which some historians mark as the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Attucks led a small group of colonists to a British garrison on King Street in Boston. One of the British soldiers panicked

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Ozie Jackson: Well-Known and Respected Businessman of South Carolina

Ozie Jackson was well known and respected throughout Columbia and the state of South

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Source: Black Then

African Americans in Louisiana

African Americans in Louisiana are residents of the state of Louisiana who are of African-American

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Source: ThoughtCo

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