Singer Bessie Smith Died

Man awarded $3m after cops seize, sell car

Michael Thompson tried on several occasions to prove that he was the legitimate owner of a 2006 Toyota Allion motor car that was involved in an accident in 2016 and was in the custody of the Constant Spring

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Bessie Smith - Yellowdog Blues

Bessie

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Fatal crash in Westmoreland

Twenty-seven-year-old Clement Beckford, a scullion of Dalling Street, Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland died as a result of injuries he sustained from motor vehicle collision along the Nompariel main road. The police report that about 3:20 p.m. on...

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Ohio bride faces backlash after cancelling wedding photographer for BLM support

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Bessie Smith -- Baby Won't You Please Come Home 1923

Bessie Smith -- Baby Wont You Please Come Home 1923

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Black men tell about their encounters with officers –

As the last police cruiser passed me, the officer looked at me and slammed on his brakes; the others did the

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Kenya: Cops Probe 2 Equity Bank Employees After Customer They Served Lost Sh600,000

Police are investigating two employees of Equity Bank's Ridgeways branch after a customer they served at the bank was trailed and the Sh600,000 he had withdrawn there stolen from his car at

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Ohio US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate Urges the Family of a Navy Veteran or Person with Lung Cancer in Ohio Who Had Significant Exposure to Asbestos to Call the Lawyers at Karst von Oiste To Discuss Compensation

CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA, June 3, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Ohio US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate says, "We are urging the family of a Navy Veteran or person in Ohio with lung cancer to call us anytime at 800-714-0303-if their loved one also had significant exposure to asbestos prior to

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Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett - Death

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

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Mar

25

1931

Friends and Former Media Colleagues React to Death of Beloved Sports Journalist Roger B. Brown

As news hit on May 18th that legendary DFW sports journalist Roger B. Brown passed away days after his 61st birthday, many of his friends and former media colleagues took to social media to express their feelings about the beloved “Roger

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Black Lives Matter: Powerful Photos Of The World Protesting Racism

Protesters joined again on Saturday to chant and hold signs reminding the world that Black Lives Matter as demonstrations and rallies against racism dotted countries across the map following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial

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Minneapolis police slashed tires of cars parked near George Floyd protests | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Two law enforcement agencies in Minneapolis have admitted their officers slashed the tires of cars parked near protests over George Floyd’s police-involved death in the city, according to

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Bessie Smith (Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, 1929) Jazz Legend

Bessie Smith (Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out, 1929) Jazz Legend - YouTube

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America’s Black Ambassadors: A Historical Snapshot

America’s Black Ambassadors: A HistoricalSnapshot

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1845

Justice Denied: The Death of Benjamin Brown

May 12, 1967 was the morning that Benjamin Brown, a young truck driver from Jackson, Mississippi, breathed his

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Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey

William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history. In the following account written to describe the reissue of one of his most successful books, Black Indians, he describes how he became an historian of African America and particularly the black

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Features of your summer auto buy

1. Blindspot monitoring If your are going for a bigger, longer car, one side effect to consider is a large, hard-to-see blindspot. This is easily remedied by blindspot monitoring systems that can sense when a car or other object is in the very...

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Oprah Winfrey Donates $12 Million for COVID-19 Relief in Five Cities

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

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Bessie Smith

Born into poverty and orphaned at an early age, Bessie Smith became the greatest blues singer of her era, recording more than 160 songs between 1923 and 1933. Her early career was influenced by Ma Rainey, and Smith performed on stage throughout the southern U.S. before making records. She recorded

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Oprah Winfrey Gives $12 Million Toward COVID-19 Relief In Places She's Called Home

Oprah Winfrey recently talked about all of the people who are struggling because of the COVID-19 crisis, and she believes it’s crucial for those of means to assist, starting with those who are

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New vehicle sales drop to 11-year low

FILE PHOTO | NMG

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Cleo Blackburn: Director of Flanner House for Over 35 Years

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Cape Town weather: Trees uprooted by gale-force winds, cars crushed in Wynberg [videos]

Gale-force winds and heavy rain wreak havoc in Cape Town amid the second cold front this month.

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Charles Drew

Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C., the son of Richard and Nora Drew and eldest of five children. Charles was one of those rare individuals who seemed to excel at everything he did and on every level and would go on to become of pioneer in the field of

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Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Mama” (1926-1984)

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was a blues singer and songwriter whose recordings of “Hound Dog” and “Ball ‘n’ Chain” later were transformed into huge hits by Elvis Presley and Janis

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Jul

25

1984

Racial terror: 2,000 black Americans were lynched in Reconstruction era, report says

The report, Reconstruction in America, documents more than 2,000 black victims of racial terror lynchings killed between the end of the civil war in 1865 and the collapse of federal efforts to protect the lives and voting rights of black Americans in

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Petal mayor refuses to resign after disturbing George Floyd tweet – The Mississippi Link

A white Mississippi mayor is receiving backlash after tweeting insensitive comments amid the controversial death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died recently while in police custody after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for nine and a half

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Le Destin accident victims were going for ride with friends

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How Some Mississippi Teens Are Saving Their Town From Climate Change

Their tiny, rural town of just over 1,000 people suffers from severe flooding, made worse by climate

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FAMU switches athletic conference; joins SWAC –

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Board of Trustees has approved the university’s move to join the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), beginning with the 2021-22 academic

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