Why does God allow evil and disease?

(1857) Frances Ellen Watkins, “Liberty For Slaves”

Frances Ellen Watkins was born of free parents in Baltimore in 1825. After teaching in New York and Pennsylvania Watkins became a full-time abolitionist speaker for the Maine Anti-Slavery Society. By the 1850s she was one of the most noted speakers on that subject as well as a highly acclaimed

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May

23

1857

Shepherd Manson B. Johnson II, pastor of Holman Street Baptist Church, has died

Shepherd Dr. Manson B. Johnson II, the dynamic leader and teacher of Holman Street Baptist Church in Houston’s Third Ward, died Sunday, May 31, 2020 from complications of

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

M & M Jamaica aids in COVID-19 relief efforts

Construction giant M & M Jamaica Ltd has donated much-needed masks to front-line healthcare workers at the Black River Hospital as well as care packages to approximately 500 households in Kingston and St Elizabeth to aid in COVID-19 relief

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Africa: Religion as Africa's Trojan Horse

It's impossible to have an honest discussion about Africa's underdevelopment and poor performance in the global stage without recognising the ignominious role played by

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Source: allAfrica.com

Warfield, William (1920-2002)

Concert bass-baritone singer, actor, and teacher William Caesar Warfield was born on January 22, 1920 in West Helena, Arkansas to a family of sharecroppers. When Warfield was a young child, his family moved to Rochester, New York, where his father served as a pastor for Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in

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Source: Black Past

Aug

25

2002

Good Times

Good Times is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series primary executive producer. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which was itself a spin-off of All in the

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Early Christianity in North Africa

Given the slow progress of Romanization of North Africa, it is perhaps surprising how quickly Christianity spread across the top of the continent. From the fall of Carthage in 146 BCE to the rule of Emperor Augustus (from 27 BCE), Africa (or, more strictly speaking, Africa Vetus, Old Africa), as

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Source: ThoughtCo

Blacks, Don’t Fall for the President’s “Rope-A-Dope” on Churches Reopening

Special to California Black Media Partners

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

(1906) W.E.B. DuBois, “Men of Niagara”

In 1906, one year after the Niagara Movement was founded, it held its second annual meeting at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding member and its titular leader, gave the address below to the assembled civil rights

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Source: Black Past

The gospel of Michael Jordan: thankfully the ‘Last Dance’ is the...

I was talking to my son about the failure of Michael Jordan to speak out about issues that were important to Black people and human beings in

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Uganda: I Should Have Been One of the Best Footballers - Optional

One day after our match, I was tactical with the ball and people gave me money as a token of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Lee, Jarena (1783–185?)

Lee moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a teenager and continued to work as a domestic servant. One afternoon, Lee attended a worship service at Bethel Church where Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the A.M.E. Church, was scheduled to preach. After hearing the powerful sermon delivered by

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Source: Black Past

Number of working Black business owners falls 40 percent amid COVID-19

The number of working African American business owners in the United States plummeted more than 40 percent as the coronavirus shut down much of the economy — a far steeper drop than other racial groups experienced, according to an analysis confirming fears the pandemic would deepen inequalities in

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Blacks, Don’t Fall for the President’s “Rope-A-Dope” on Churches Reopening

Editor’s Note: This commentary is Special to California Black Media partners courtesy of Hardy Brown, Sr., Publisher Emeritus, Black Voice News, and co-founder of California Black Media

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights

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(1837) Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”

Rev. Theodore S. Wright, (1797-1847) was born to free parents in Providence, Rhode Island. By the 1830s Wright was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Wright, a dedicated abolitionist, attended the New York State Anti-Slavery Society

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Source: Black Past

The Black crisis in the midst of the coronavirus crisis

A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

(1963) Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon

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Source: Black Past

Clarence's Hollywood

Katherine Stockett’s excellent novel, The Help, is about the African American maids who worked in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Stockett reflects the brutal realties of 20th Century slavery being carried out in pretentious southern white households that continued from

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Source: Black Past

Jan

12

2010

How do believers exercise faith amid COVID-19?

A meme suggesting that persons who wear masks during the current pandemic lack faith in God is just one example of a growing

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

‘Trust Jesus’

You either trust God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or you

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman , in full Howard Washington Thurman (born Nov. 18, 1899, Daytona Beach, Fla., U.S.—died April 10, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.), American Baptist preacher and theologian, the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, and a founder of the

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Source: Brittanica

Apr

10

1981

Adam Roosevelt has become the first black CEO of SEM North America – The Black Chronicle

Adam Roosevelt, a 28-year-old politician and combat veteran, is adding to his illustrious résumé by becoming the first African American to be chosen as SEM North America’s first

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Source: The Black Chronicle

The Power of Mothering: Faithfull Utterness

I am forever grateful for this lesson and so many others my mother taught

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Meet the Clergy Who Won’t Stop In-Person Preaching During COVID-19 – Free Press of Jacksonville

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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

The Negro Is Not African-IUIC

Brother Liam and Brother Gedalya destroying the Lie that all Blacks come from Africa. We are the Israelites that was made slaves in West Africa by the Africans and Arabs according to King James 1611

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Source: Black Past

Psalm One: The Who What and Where of a Good Man.

“How” has trumped the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ of a good man for ages, based, as it is, upon the principle of immediate

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Teaching Kids To Hide From Gunfire: Safety Drills At Day Care And At Home

Tess Trice, head of the day care program, carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear

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Source: Stories About Black History

After the Storm, Churches will open again, But it’s good to know where our faith stands | The Crusader Newspaper Group

I stand in this state of suspended animation that now exists between the birth of Pentecostalism and the Mega-church and prosperity doctrine, where COVID-19 has forced church services to the Internet and, for some, reduced the administering of Holy Communion recently to pre-Easter drive-thrus and

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

(1865) Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish”

On February 12, 1865, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a former slave and now pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., became the first African American to speak in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. His sermon was delivered on Sunday, February 12, 1865 within days

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Source: Black Past

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