State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstrations

Ron Kirk

Ron Kirk is Senior Of Counsel at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices. In this role, Ambassador Kirk is Co-Chair of both the International Trade and Sports Law practices. He is also a member of the Public Policy, Crisis Management and Private Equity practice

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Margot James Copeland

Margot James Copeland is Executive Vice President – Director, Corporate Diversity & Philanthropy and an Executive Council member at KeyCorp, one of the nation’s largest bank-based multiline financial services companies. In her role, Copeland also serves as Chair of the KeyBank

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Dykes, Eva Beatrice (1893-1986)

In 1921 Eva Beatrice Dykes became the first black woman in the United States to complete the required coursework for a Ph.D. and the third African American woman to receive a doctoral degree. Two other black women, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and Georgiana Simpson, receive their Ph.D.s, in the

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NYC Mom Shows No Sympathy For Son Who Was Arrested In Hawaii For Disobeying Quarantine

A hard head makes a soft behind and college student Tarique Peters had to learn the hard

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Historically Black Colleges Work to Help students Amid Virus | Black Voice News

The school of 268 students helped Johnson, and others like her, despite its somewhat shaky financial condition and concerns that COVID-19 could make things

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. , original name Michael King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee), Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in

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Researchers to Study COVID-19 Impact on S.C. Restaurants

Researchers from the College of Charleston’s School of Business and Lander University’s College of Business are currently studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on restaurant owners and operators in South

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Spelman College Announces 2020 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

Through hard work, determination and balance, Kendra Grissom and Jasmine McClam have excelled and achieved high honors during their academic

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Famous Black Inventors Through the Years

From aerospace innovator George Alcorn to Kevin Woolfolk, who invented high-tech exercise equipment for hamsters, African-American inventors have made major contributions that have helped advance our increasingly technology-driven society. This alphabetical list of popular black inventors provides

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Column: Former Georgia player shows power of persistence | The Atlanta Voice

Meet Shedrick Wynn, who arrived at Georgia in 1999 to play football but never finished his college

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HBCU Timeline: 1900 to 1975

As the Jim Crow Era raged on, African-Americans in the South listened to the words of Booker T. Washington, who encouraged them to learn trades that would allow them to be self-sufficient in

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Beyoncé To Join The Obamas As Speakers For Virtual Graduation Event

Beyoncé is slated to participate in an upcoming virtual graduation event for the class of 2020 alongside Barack and Michelle

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Loughlin, Husband To Serve Prison Time For College Scam

BOSTON (AP) — Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty to charges in the college admissions bribery case and serve prison time, according to court papers filed

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6 Black Patients Who Died From Coronavirus — After Being Denied a Test!

#2 – Gary Fowler: a 56-year old from Detroit who died at home from the

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Tony Dorsett

Anthony “Tony” Drew Dorsett is a retired American Football Running Back who is mostly famous for his performances with the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver

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1954

Vietnam War student massacre—50 years on

The campus fire was dealt with quickly, and then the police forced demonstrating students into the centre of the

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Little Richard to be Buried at an Alabama HBCU He Attended in the 1950s

Little Richard will be buried at Oakwood University, an HBCU in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday, May 20, a family spokesperson recently confirmed to The Associated

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Thurgood Marshall College Fund

This article reads like a press release or a news article or is entirely based on routine coverage. Please expand this article with properly sourced content to meet Wikipedias quality standards, event notability guideline, or encyclopedic content policy. (May

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A beginner’s guide to the NPHC ‘Divine Nine’

Above, members of “Divine Nine” National Pan-Hellenic Council Greek organizations pose together on the campus of N.C. State

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George W. Haywood

George W. Haywood is a private investor in numerous public companies including: Denny’s, XM Satellite Radio, Martek Biosciences, Zix Corporation and AVI Biopharma (now Sarepta). Within these roles, Haywood has advised on a wide range of issues encompassing governance and setting strategy of the

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Tunisia

Tunisia, at the northernmost bulge of Africa, thrusts out toward Sicily to mark the division between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. Twice the size of South Carolina, it is bordered on the west by Algeria and by Libya on the south. Coastal plains on the east rise to a north-south

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Nigo Reveals The Louis Vuitton Trunk He Designed With Virgil Abloh

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First Black Harvard College Graduate

Richard Theodore Greener, class of 1870, was the first Black to graduate from Harvard College. He became a professor of mental and moral philosophy at the University of South Carolina and U.S. Consul at Vladivostok during the Russo-Japanese War.

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Pharmacist Doctor Jackson

For 50 years, from 1938-1988, Clarence Noel Jackson (1911-1988), Reg. Ph., owned and operated the Douglass Square Pharmacy in lower Roxbury. 'Dr. Jackson,' as he was called, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1937, provided a community institution for health care throughout

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ED warns Chamisa over demos

GOVERNMENT yesterday accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of putting people’s lives in danger by embarking on unsanctioned demonstrations, but was mum on the alleged abduction and assault of opposition politicians which has provoked an international

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President Obama Appoints Dr. Michael Nettles to Key Administration Post

President Barack Obama has announced the appointment of Dr.Michael Nettles to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African

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Coronavirus Update: Diabetics Are More Likely To Develop Severe Complications from COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifically lists people with diabetes as having a higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus than the general

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Rosalind G. Brewer

Rosalind G. Brewer is President and CEO of Sam’s Club for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a members-only warehouse club channel with revenues of $56 billion for fiscal year 2013, 110,000 associates and 620 clubs. Brewer has implemented a growth strategy focused on technology and innovation, exciting and

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a snipers bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered Kings right

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1968

Efua Sutherland

Efua Sutherland , (born June 27, 1924, Cape Coast, Gold Coast [now in Ghana]—died January 22, 1996), Ghanaian playwright, poet, teacher, and children’s author, who founded the Drama Studio in Accra (now the Writers’ Workshop in the Institute of African Studies, University of

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