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A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

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(1964) Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”

By March 1964, Malcolm X had broken with the Nation of Islam. In the speech below, given on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, he explains his departure and his reason for establishing a separation between his religion and his politics. He also makes clear that those politics are still rooted in black

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3

1964

Honoring Jackie Robinson extends into orbit this year

Jackie Robinson Day was celebrated even in space this

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James Meredith is a 20th century eminent American Civil Rights Movement figure. He was involved in political advisory committee and also wrote about the social inequality issues. Besides, he was a war veteran and was the first black to be admitted in an all-white

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Jun

25

1933

A Biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. was in Miami when he had a meeting with film producer Abby Mann, who was contemplating a movie biography about King. Mann asked the 37-year-old minister how the movie should end. King replied, It ends with me getting

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LeBron James Receives $100 Million To Build Media Empire

On Thursday, Bloomberg released its latest issue featuring a cover story about James and his longtime friend and business partner, Maverick Carter, and the $100 million investment they received for their growing media

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Black Lives > Property Damage: Tyler, the Creator Not Bothered About Damaged To Golf Store

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Celebrate Black History Month with these community events

… impacting Black and Latino communities. African American country singer-songwriter Rissi Palmer …

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A Soviet attempt to install medium-range missiles in Cuba—capable of striking targets in the United States with nuclear warheads—provoked a crisis in 1962. Denouncing the Soviets for “deliberate deception,” President Kennedy promised a U.S. blockade of Cuba to stop the missile

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Dodgers Have Plenty of Pitching

Keisha Heath sat in her San Antonio home watching the Dodgers leading the World Series three games to two. There were two outs in the ninth inning and pitcher Julio Urius threw a two strike pitch 97 miles per hour fastball to the Rays Willy Adames for a call strike three.

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President Obama on JFK's political courage

President Barack Obama says JFK faced many challenges from civil rights to nuclear war, but his courage to stand up for the greater good kept the nation together. At the Profile In Courage Award dinner, the President called on Americans to do the

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Ambassador Caroline Kennedy honors President Barack Obama

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy says President Barack Obama inspired a generation to take action in their communities just as her father did almost 60 years before. She says the Presidents record and convictions embody the Profile In Courage

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History of African Americans in Boston

Until 1950, African Americans were a small but historically important minority in Boston, where the population was overwhelmingly white. Since then, Bostons demographics have changed due to factors such as immigration, white flight, and gentrification. According to census information for

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Celebrating This Week in Black History

May 20, 1961 – U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy dispatches U.S. Marshals to Montgomery, Ala., to restore order in the “Freedom Rider” disturbance. May 21, 1833 – African Americans enroll for the first time at Oberlin College, Ohio. May 22, 1921 – Shuffle Along, a musical featuring a score by

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Uganda: Govt Hands Over Bodies of Tourists Killed in Queen Elizabeth National Park

[Nile Post] Government has finally handed over the bodies of two foreign tourists killed in Queen Elizabeth National Park last month.

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Murdered teen’s mother, now jobless, faces funeral expense – HELP ME BURY MY SON - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

GREGORY MCBURNIE RIMA Hosein, mother of Mikiel Hosein, whose headless corpse was found in Chaguanas, says she needs help to pay for her son’s burial. Mikiel, 19, was last seen on October 31, almost nine weeks after his brother Matthew, 17, went missing. Mikiel’s body was found in a bushy a

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Working the Quincy Mill: African American Lumber Mill Workers in Northern California, 1926-1955

Economic opportunity motivated millions of early 20th Century African Americans to leave the segregated South. Most of the people of the Great Migration found better jobs and better pay in northern factories in World War I and western defense industries in World War II. However, at least a few

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Pics of the day: November 15, 2023 | Africanews

Africanews samples the best pictures of the day’s news.

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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"

On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City. His address appears

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7

1966

Mayor partially reopens Gary’s beaches and Marquette Park | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Crusader Staff Report Gary Mayor Jerome A. Prince on Tuesday, August 11, announced the city’s beaches and Marquette Park will partially reopen from Friday, August 14, through Labor Day, September 7. Prince said he closed the beaches and the park to help protect Gary residents and visitors from the

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Segregation is morally wrong said Kennedy

President Kennedy told nation in radio-TV address that segregation was morally wrong and that it was time to act in the Congress, in your state and local legislature body, and...in all of our daily lives.

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Jun

11

1963

King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)

One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlantas NAACP chapter, and the son

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Conference advances technological innovations in agriculture

By Imam Wali in Nairobi, Kenya Former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has touted agricultural innovations as a tool for spurring growth and combating climate change across the African continent. He was speaking on Tuesday during the maiden edition of the African Conference on Agricultural

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Michael Wilbon tells Doc Walker that Boston fans need to “own who they are”

A couple of weeks ago, in light of the recent protests that have taken place all across the nation over the death of George Floyd, Major League outfielder Torii Hunter, in a appearance on a WEII radio show recounted his experiences with racism at Fenway

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Journalist Tricks Republicans Into Tweeting Photo of JFK’s Killer on Memorial Day, and Candace Owens Proves She’s the ‘I’ in Idiot - The New York Beacon

It must be fun to troll Republicans. I mean,they are ripe for it. They are at least a few crayons short of a 64 box of Crayolas. They are self-righteous and loud and shamelessly racist AF. So leave it to journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has

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Darnella Frazier Awarded Honorary Pulitzer Prize For 'Courageously' Filming Killing Of George Floyd - Blavity

Darnella Frazier is awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her recording of George Floyd's death.

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Carrington, Walter Charles (1930 - )

Walter Charles Carrington served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal from 1980 to 1981, and to Nigeria from 1993 to 1997. He married Arese Ukpoma, a Nigerian physician, and has lived in three Nigerian cities since the late

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1930

Uganda: Researchers Dare to Promote Peace in Complicated Situations

[Observer] The fourth capstone conference of the Makerere University Rotary Peace Centre took place at the Telepresence Centre, Makerere University on October 18, 2023, under the theme, 'Achieving peace through collaboration and community engagement.'

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and other American actions against Cuba as well as to President Kennedy s build-up in Italy and Turkey of U.S. strategic nuclear forces with

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African American History

African American history entails the American history with regard to black ethnic group that formed its root in America after being enslaved by the whites in their homeland. The heinous tradition of holding blacks in captivity and enslaving them began in the mid 16th century and lasted till

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John F. Kennedy, Democratic presidential candidate, called Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and expressed his concern about the imprisonment of Dr. King.

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