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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America
Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden clarified his message to Black America after the GOP, and others, seized on a remark he made in jest while wrapping up an interview with the famous Breakfast
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Newswire : Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden clarifies message to Black America
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On The Money: Protests highlight COVID-19's economic toll on African Americans | Senate confirms Trump watchdog for coronavirus funds | USTR launches probes into countries' digital taxes
THE BIG DEAL—Protests highlight COVID-19's economic toll on African Americans: Protests around the country over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans at the hands of police come as communities of color suffer staggering losses to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis it
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Watt, Melvin Luther (1945- )
Carolina in the 20th century, Mel Watts is a current member of the United States House of Representatives. Watts was born on August 26, 1945 in the small community of Steele Creek in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and attended high school in Charlotte. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science
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Aug
26
1945
Trump to tour Ford's ventilator assembly plant near Detroit
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after threatening to withhold funds over Michigan’s mail-in ballot effort, President Donald Trump was set to visit the electoral battleground Thursday to learn how the medical breathing machines governors begged for during the height of the coronavirus pandemic are
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Did sea farm debacle sink California aquaculture? | Black Voice News
None are harvesting in federal waters, which are more than three miles offshore, and only one mussel farm operates in open sea in California, a well-regarded facility in state waters off Santa
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Holloway, Anne Forrester (1941- 2006)
Anne Forrester Holloway was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mali on November 6, 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. She was the first African American woman to hold that
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6
1979
Enough is Enough!
When the Black Lives Matter movement grew in strength, voice and prominence several years ago, I remember seeing signs posted in yards that said, “blue lives matter” (meaning police officers) and I thought: “you totally do not get
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America
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Dollarhide, Douglas (1923-2008)
Douglas Dollarhide was the first African American mayor of the city of Compton, California, and a pioneer and role model for future black politicians across the state of
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28
2008
Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America
Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden clarified his message to Black America after the GOP, and others, seized on a remark he made in jest while wrapping up an interview with the famous Breakfast
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Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again
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McKinney, Cynthia Ann (1955- )
Cynthia Ann McKinney was born on March 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Billy McKinney, who was a police officer and to a mother, Leola Christion McKinney, who was a nurse. Her father was a political activist who challenged his employer, the Atlanta Police Department, for its practice of
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8
2006
Congress Slams CDC For 'Lazy' Report On Coronavirus Deaths By Race, Ethnicity
Members of Congress have called a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report on the racial and ethnic deaths related to the
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Washington, Harold (1922 – 1987)
Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago.  Washington’s mother Bertha Washington was a well-known singer in the
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Former White House Butler Who Served 11 Presidents Dies Of Coronavirus
A photo of Jerman standing in an elevator with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama was included in the former first
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California and Wisconsin Special Elections: What to Watch For
LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, voters in California’s 25th Congressional District will choose the successor to former Representative Katie Hill, and Wisconsin voters in the state’s Seventh District will look to fill the seat left by former Representative Sean
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Caldwell, Elvin R., Sr. (1919-2004)
Politician Elvin R. Caldwell Sr. was born on April 11, 1919 in Denver, Colorado. Raised in Five Points, Denver’s predominantly black community, Caldwell was one of 12 children in his family. After graduating from Eastside High School in 1937, Caldwell earned a track scholarship to the University of
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(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964.  On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam.  In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.  While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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TV One's "News One Now" Devotes to Coverage of Hillary Clinton's South Carolina Town Hall Meeting
TV One’s News One Now, the first morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports, and culture from an explicitly African American perspective, is devoting its entire Monday, Nov. 9 (7-8 a.m. ET) broadcast to covering Presidential Democratic Candidate
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William Dawson Elected Black Democratic Party vice presidential candidate
William Dawson Elected Black Democratic Party vice presidential candidate
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Aug
26
1943
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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Jackson-Lee, Sheila (1950 - )
Sheila Jackson-Lee was born on January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York.   She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York in 1968.  She then graduated from Yale University in Connecticut with a B.A. in political science in 1972 followed in 1975 by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law
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Source: Black Past
Jan
12
1950
Police Arrest CNN Reporter, Crew Covering Minneapolis Protests Live On Air
Minnesota State Patrol officers arrested CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and two members of his crew while they were broadcasting live from protests in Minneapolis on Friday morning’s “New
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Tallahassee Police Shooting Victim Identified On Social Media As Black Trans Man
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Ford, Harold Sr. (1945- )
Harold Eugene Ford, Sr., a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997, was born on May 20, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee to Vera Davis and Newton Jackson Ford, a funeral home director.  Ford’s family was part of the local black elite dating back to the beginning of the 20th
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Source: Black Past
May
20
1945
Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate In 2020.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt
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US Senate panel head steps aside
Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the powerful US Senate Intelligence Committee, stepped down Thursday after the FBI seized his cellphone in a probe of alleged insider stock trading tied to the coronavirus
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Maxine Waters birth
Maxine Waters was born this day. Congresswoman Waters is a Democrat fromCalifornia.
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Aug
15
1938
Former White House butler who served 11 presidents dies after contracting coronavirus
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, a former White House butler who worked under 11 US Presidents, has died after contracting
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