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McKinney, Cynthia Ann (1955- ) - Birthday
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.
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Shooting of Oscar Grant
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of New Years Day 2009 by BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, United States. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San
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Scene of 'Boston Riot'
In 1988 Columbus Avenue A.M.E. Zion Church celebrated its 150th anniversary. Moving to its present site on Columbus Avenue in 1903, it was the scene of the famous 'Boston Riot' in July, 1903, when Boston's militant equal rights leader William Monroe Trotter and Booker T. Washington, the
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Lawyer Argues Someone Is Building Smear Campaign Against Ahmaud Arbery As New Video Shows Officer Tried to Tase Victim During 2017 Stop
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Martin Lawrence
Martin Lawrence is an American actor and comedian who has starred in numerous Hollywood hits. He was born on April 16, 1965 to John and Chlora Lawrence. John Lawrence was enlisted in the U.S. military and serving in Frankfurt, Germany at the time so Martin was born there. He was named after the
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California community college chancellor endorses going online-only this fall
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Testing where the people are –
Harper and Santiago know each other, but Santiago doesn’t represent Daytona Beach’s Black community in the Florida
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Elijah Muhammad
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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS
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Tucker Carlson, Journalist Zaid Jilani Think Focusing On One Group’s Suffering From Coronavirus Over Others Is Wrong
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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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Walton, Lester Aglar (1882-1965)
Lester Walton was a journalist, entertainment professional, and diplomat who promoted civil rights at home and abroad. Born Lester Aglar Walton on April 20, 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri, his early life was spent as a journalist. At the age of 20 in 1902, when he was hired by the St. Louis Star to be
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Fired Cop Said It’s ‘Unfortunate’ That All Black People Weren’t Killed By Coronavirus, Report Says
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West Africa: Germany Debates Troop Deployment to Africa's Sahel
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Howell, Abner Leonard (1877-1966)
Abner Leonard Howell was a star athlete in Utah whose accomplishments went largely ignored during the peak of his football career because of his
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Historically Black Colleges Work To Help Students Amid Virus
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Black pride
Black pride is a movement in response to dominant white cultures and ideologies that encourages black people to celebrate black culture and embrace their African heritage.[1] In the United States, it was a direct response to white racism especially during the Civil Rights Movement.[2] Related
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Black Business Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Fired Louisiana Cop Says It’s ‘Unfortunate’ That All Black People Weren’t Killed By Coronavirus
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‘The Lovebirds’ Is Exactly What It Looks Like
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Burundi to vote in tense poll amid virus outbreak
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Ken Osmond, Eddie Haskell on ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ dies
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Louisville Mayor Increasing Body Cams After Police Shooting
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Award-Winning Literary and Scholarly Works by African Americans (to 2013)
The following is a list of major awards won by African Americans for literary, journalistic, and scholarly writing compiled by San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes, Jr.  The list includes all awards earned by these writers for fiction and non fiction.  Links to specific prizes appear
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African Americans
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92nd Infantry Division, (1917–1919, 1942–1945)
The 92nd Infantry Division, a military unit of approximately fifteen thousand officers and men, was one of only two all-black divisions to fight in the United States Army in World War I and World War II. The 92nd Division was organized in October 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas, and included black
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Council, city officials mull cap on delivery service charges
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