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Venus Williams Will Return To The Washington Kastles For The World Team Tennis 2020 Season
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African Zion Baptist Church [Malden] (1852- )
The African Zion Baptist Church is the first African American church in what is now West Virginia (West Virginia was a part of Virginia until 1863) and was the church of Booker T. Washington. The church is located in Malden, West Virginia, a town once home to over 1,500
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"THEY'RE SCREWING THE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS"
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Maryland US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate Appeals to the Family of a Maryland Navy Veteran with Lung Cancer Who Also Had Asbestos Exposure to call the Lawyers at Karst von Oiste-Compensation May Exceed $100, 000
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA, August 18, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The Maryland US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate says, "We are appealing to the wife or adult son-daughter of a Navy Veteran who has lung cancer in Maryland to please call the …
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Hospitals approaching capacity as Miami closes restaurants
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D.C. Updates List of States with High Coronavirus Risk
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Vermont Mesothelioma Victims Center Has Endorsed Attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste to Ensure a Navy Veteran with Mesothelioma in Vermont Receives the Best Possible Compensation-Why Settle for Less
BURLINGTON, VERMONT, USA, July 1, 2020 ⁨EINPresswire.com⁩ -- The Vermont Mesothelioma Victims Center has endorsed, and they recommend attorney Erik Karst the founding partner at the law firm of Karst von Oiste to ensure a Navy Veteran or person
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Brown, Gayleatha Beatrice (1947-2013)
On July 2, 2009 President Barack Obama appointed Gayleatha Beatrice Brown to be the United States ambassador to Burkina Faso, a nation in West Africa.  This was her second ambassadorial appointment. Previously, Brown had been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as U.S. Ambassador to
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2
2009
DeKalb Commissioner Cochran-Johnson sponsors bill to expand to online voting | Atlanta Daily World
DeKalb Commissioners Send Resolution to Georgia General Assembly and Push to Expand Voting to Include Online Statewide Voting Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson Sponsors Resolution Measure DECATUR, Ga. – As voting irregularities ranging from technical issues to poorly trained staff emerge across
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Spiritually Speaking: Dont Be Afraid to be Right and Alone | Dallas Weekly
I have often heard and have come to the conclusion that Jesus, as was Paul, was killed because He dared to stand up and speak truth to power. He and many of His followers, convicted by their beliefs, professed and preached that the ruling religious law of the day, although large and in charge, was
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Taylor, George Edwin (1857-1925)
Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor would become the first African American selected by a political party to be its candidate for the presidency of the United
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Coronavirus Update: Black Hair Stylists And Barbers Struggle To Survive During Pandemic
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Tennessee US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate Urges the Family of a Navy Veteran with Lung Cancer in Tennessee who Also had Asbestos Exposure to call the Lawyers at Karst von Oiste-Compensation Might Exceed $100,000
NASHVILLE , TENNESSEE , USA, July 15, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The Tennessee US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate says, "We think the best kept secret in the United States is that Navy Veterans or people who now have lung cancer and who …
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85–315, 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congresss show of
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Federal troops left Little Rock
Federal troops left Little Rock.
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27
1957
Minnesota US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate Has Endorsed Attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste to Ensure a Navy Veteran with Mesothelioma in Minnesota Receives the Best Compensation-It Might Exceed $1,000,000
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Holding Back The Hate
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24
1957
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In the following article Daryl Michael Scott, Professor of History at Howard University and Vice President of Program for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, describes the history of the Black History Month
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(1994) Sister Souljah, “We Are At War"
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is a professor at Harvard University, the author of many books of literary criticism and African American history, and the director of Harvards W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research. Gates has been a prominent scholar in African-American studies
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Charles E. Mitchell
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1930
Rhode Island Mesothelioma Victims Center Has Endorsed Attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste To Be the Go-to Lawyer for a Navy Veteran with Mesothelioma in Rhode Island-Get Serious About Compensation - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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President Donald Trump lied about a wide variety of topics - including health care, the economy and the coronavirus pandemic - during Tuesday's presidential debate. But he was especially dishonest on the subject of voting by mail. Almost every single claim Trump made during the debate segment about
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Philander Smith College [Little Rock] (1877-- )
Philander Smith is a private liberal arts college in Little Rock, Arkansas and is known as a Historically black college/university (HBCU).  Established originally as Walden Seminary in 1877 by the United Methodist Church, the school was named after the first Freedmen’s society
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Virginia Union University (1865- )
Virginia Union University, a historically black university located in Richmond, Virginia, traces its roots back to the Wayland Seminary, founded in 1865 by the American Baptist Home Missionary Society (ABHMS).  The institution, however, is the result of the merger of four institutions: Wayland
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