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The U.S. again has reported a record number of daily coronavirus-related deaths — the third time this month it has done so — with the toll topping 3,000 for the first time throughout the pandemic.
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African Americans throughout the North held meetings and church services on January 1, 1863 to celebrate the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Almost always the festivities revolved around a central speaker. One of those speeches was delivered by Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, pastor of the First African Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Gibbs studied at Dartmouth and Princeton Theological Seminary before assuming his pastorate and was active in the Underground Railroad and black convention movement in the 1850s. After the war, he served as a missionary to freedmen and women in North Carolina and Florida and as Floridas secretary of state, acting governor, and superintendent of public instruction. Rev. Gibbs’s speech appears below.
THE MORNING DAWNS! The long night of sorrow and gloom is past, rosy-fingered Aurora, early born of day, shows the first faint flush of her coming glory, low down on the distant horizon of Freedoms joyful day. O day, thrice blessed, that brings liberty to four million native-born Americans. O Liberty! O sacred rights of every human soul! O source of knowledge, of justice, of civilization, of Christianity, of strength, of power, bless us with the inspiration of thy presence. Today, standing on the broad platform of the common brotherhood of men, we solemnly appeal to the God of justice, our common Father, to aid us to meet manfully the new duties, the new obligations that this memorable day will surely impose. The Proclamation has gone forth, and God is saying to this nation by its legitimate constitute head, Man must be free.
Scout, deride, malign this intimation, as the enemies of God and man will and may, the American people must yield to His inscrutable fiat, or the legacy of their fathers will be squandered midst poverty, ignorance, blood and shame. The people must support this Proclamation, heartily, earnestly, strengthening the hands of our government by all the energies and resources they possess, or in a short time the question will not be whether black men are to be
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There were a host of free Blacks who struck out against slavery. Many of these were
ex-slaves and free-born Blacks. This desire to place ones live in danger to help
those of ones people who are suffering, exemplifies well the tenets of Black
Nationalism. The Convention of free Blacks in 1817 who met at Philadelphias
Bethel AME Church declared, Resolved, that we never will separate ourselves
voluntarily from the slave population in this country; they are our brethren by the
ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong; and we feel that there is more
virtue in suffering privatations with them, than fancied advantage for a season. The
free-born Black, David Walker, published the famous Walkers Appeal in 1829
demanding that Blacks everywhere take up arms against slavery. He stated,
Look upon your children and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no
more harm for you to kill a man, who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take
a drink of water when thirsty. Walkers message, though aimed specifically at
those Blacks in America, held a distinct Pan-Africanist approach as it called out to
the Coloured Citizens of the World: Blacks in Africa, South America, and the
West Indies. Henry Highland Garnet was another such freedom fighter. In 1843
he called for a general slave revolt, urging slaves to act for themselves. He stated
fervently, Hear the cries of your poor children! Remember the stripes your father
bore. Think of your wretched sisters, loving virtue and purity, as they are driven
into concubinage and are exposed to the unbridled lusts of incarnate devils. Think
of the undying glory that hangs around the...name of Africa... Perhaps one of the
most well known of these free Blacks was Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery in
Maryland, she ran away from home at the age of twenty-five. Though free,
Tubman never forgot her enslaved sisters and brothers to the South. More than
nineteen times she returned as a thief in the night and stole more than three
hundred slaves to freedom. When
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South Africa expects to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from the global vaccine distribution scheme, Covax, in the second quarter of 2021.
April 4, 1967. Speaking before the Overseas Press Club in New York City, Revered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, announced his opposition to the Vietnam War.
Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats are outraged that a witness invited to testify before a congressional hearing on Tuesday is being given a public platform for her discredited ideas that could endanger the US response to thecoronavirus pandemic. They say Dr. Jane Orient is a vaccine skeptic […]
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On April 19, 1866, the African American citizensof Washington D.C. celebrated the abolition of slavery. 4,000 to 5,000 people assembled to the White House addressed by Andrew Johnson. Led by twoblack regiments the spectators, and the procession proceeded up the Pennsylvania Avenue to FranklinSquare for religious services and speeched byprominiet politicians. The sign on top of the platform read: We have recieved our civil rights. Give us the right of suffrage and the work is done.
