Senator Edward Brooke named temporary chairman of

Watt, Melvin Luther (1945- )

Carolina in the 20th century, Mel Watts is a current member of the United States House of Representatives. Watts was born on August 26, 1945 in the small community of Steele Creek in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and attended high school in Charlotte. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science

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1945

Wilder, Lawrence Douglas (1931- )

Born in Richmond, Virginia on January 17, 1931, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was the first African American to be elected governor in the United States of America. For four years Wilder served as the governor of Virginia (1990-1994). Currently he is serving as the mayor of

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Source: Black Past

Jan

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1931

Kenyatta Targets Ruto's Mt Kenya Allies in Fresh Purge

As Jubilee Party MPs await their parliamentary group meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta, the onslaught against Deputy President William Ruto's men in the Senate continues with a shake-up of committees expected

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Source: allAfrica.com

'Got the Internet Crackin': Joseline Hernandez Fans Go Crazy Over Her Sexy Strut

The television personality wrote in the

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Bernicat, Marcia Stephens Bloom (1957- )

Born in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in 1957, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Thinking she might teach overseas, Bernicat earned a teaching credential in social sciences at the secondary level. Rather than

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Source: Black Past

Kourtney Gibson - President, Loop Capital

Kourtney Gibson is President of Loop Capital

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Source: Loop Capital - Investment Banking, Brokerage and Investment Management

(1948) Bayard Rustin, “Jim Crow Army"

By the early 1960s Bayard Rustin would emerge as a major strategist for the civil rights movement and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King. In 1948, however, he was less well known among the American population. By that point, however, most of his views were shaped and well known. In World War

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Source: Black Past

Mar

22

1948

Florida Memorial University [Miami] (1879- )

Florida Memorial University is a private university located in Miami, Florida and is the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Southern Florida. The schools history dates back to two separate institutions, the Florida Baptist Institute which was founded in 1879, and Florida

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Source: Black Past

VIDEO: Endangered Maine senator calls for focusing coronavirus relief on small businesses

Employers with more than 300 employees might get kicked out of the Paycheck Protection Program, if one senator

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

Telethon Jamaica raises $60 million; more donations being targeted

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, says Telethon Jamaica has so far raised $60 million to purchase personal protective equipment (PPEs) for front line

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Senate set to deliver verdict on Waiguru impeachment

The fate of embattled Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru will be known on Friday.

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Source: Business Daily

Georgia (Finally) Passes a Hate Crime Bill - The New York Beacon

Georgia’s lack of any kind of law to prosecute hate crimes came under renewed scrutiny following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in March. After years of failed legislation, the state has finally passed a bill that will allow the prosecution of hate crimes. CBS

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Sigma Lambda Chapter Fed First Responders & Hospital Staff in New Orleans East During COVID-19

The Sigma Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. (New Orleans Alphas), announced the success of their COVID-19 Service

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Jon Ossoff wins Georgia US Senate Democratic primary after major voting delays | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff won the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat, CNN projected Thursday, becoming a standard bearer for a party increasingly hopeful of taking the Republican Southern stronghold in

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

What's Going on | New York Carib News

The David Gelles 6/7 NYT essay, “Corporate American Has Failed Black America,” with comments and insights by “elite Black executives” like Darren Walker, Ford Foundation; Mellody Hobson, Ariel Investments; Ursula Burns, former Xerox CEO/Chair; billionaire Robert Smith, Class of 2019 Morehouse

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Source: The New York Carib News

Brooke, Edward, III (1919-2015) - Death

Edward Brooke died in his Coral Gables, Florida, home on January 3, 2015.

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Source: Black Past

Jan

3

2015

@SenatorTimScott Finally Says Something After #Trump “white power” Tweet

Read entire at #NNPA / In yet another social media moment invoking race in America, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a supporter heard yelling, “White

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Source: Crew of 42

Rand Paul’s Indifference to Lynching Seen In His Continued Delay of Vital Legislation

Statement of Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Florida’s Failed Unemployment System Faces New Scrutiny – Free Press of Jacksonville

But more disturbing is that 1.2 million Floridians filing claims brought on by the corona pandemic cannot navigate the state’s online system to get

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

Black Women Who Have Run for U.S. President

Black women are among the Democratic Party’s most loyal supporters. As such, they have buoyed everyone from white men to a black man and, now, a white woman to the top of the ticket. Unlike Hillary Clinton, a black woman has yet to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. But that

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Source: ThoughtCo

Virtual event on ACA in Milwaukee

U.S. California Senator Kamala Harris will join Jill Biden, wife of presumptive Democratic nominee, Vice President Joe Biden; and state Rep. Robyn Vining for a virtual Affordable Care Act (ACA) event in Milwaukee Friday, June

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Trayvon Martin’s Mother, Sybrina Fulton, Qualifies To Run For Elected Office

Sybrina Fulton is all too aware of the pain of losing a child at the hands of white vigilante

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013

In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in

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Source: Black Past

Edward W. Brooke

Edward W. Brooke (Republican, Massachusetts) elected to U.S. Senate and became the first Black senator since the Reconstruction era and the first Black senator elected by popular vote. Racial violence was reported in forty-three cities in 1966, with eleven killed, more than four hundred injured and

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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1966

Edward Brooke - Birthday

Edward Brooke , in full Edward William Brooke (born October 26, 1919, Washington, D.

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Source: Brittanica

Oct

26

1919

#Woke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Rethinking Police Departments Sweeps Nation | The Oklahoma Eagle

City government and congress did little to combat violent police actions because they would appear to be weak on crime and would certainly lose their next

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Kenya: Senate Team to Decide Waiguru's Fate Thursday

Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka has scheduled a special meeting of the Senate Business Committee Thursday afternoon to decide the fate of Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru who was impeached on

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Source: allAfrica.com

SOS places body bags on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery to symbolize the disparate healthcare impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the need for Medicaid Expansion

As of June 3, 2020 at 9:00 AM

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Global virus infections top 10 million

PARIS, France (AFP) —Global infections from the novel coronavirus have topped 10 million as the rate of new cases surges, particularly in the United States and Latin America, according to an AFP tally on

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Kenya: Cat-and-Mouse Chase in Moses Wetang'ula Tour Bid

It was a cat-and-mouse chase between police and Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang'ula, in the latter's meet-the-people

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Source: allAfrica.com

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