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Pandemic Power: Black women mayors shine during COVID-19 Crisis
“As the mayor of Georgia’s largest city, I expressed opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp’s recent order allowing certain businesses—dine-in restaurants, gyms, hair and nail salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys—to reopen before health experts say doing so is
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Source: Atlanta Tribune
Bartech Founder John W. Barfield is Celebrated in Inspiring Detroit Public TV Documentary
Bartech, a leader in global workforce solutions, is proud to announce that Detroit Public Television (DPTV) will broadcast a one hour documentary about the company’s founder, John W. Barfield. Based in part on his autobiography, “Starting From Scratch: The Humble Beginnings of a Two
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Louisville Community Leader On Protests: 'People Want To See Something Different'
Demonstrators gather outside City Hall in Louisville, Ky., on May 29 to protest of police
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"I Want You To Know You Matter" — Obama Holds Virtual Town Hall Against Police Brutality
Former President Barack Obama spoke out live Wednesday for the first time since the start of the national unrest over the killing of George
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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
New CPD Superintendent David Brown has bold vision for Chicago, even amid coronavirus crisis | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Chicago’s new police superintendent David Brown has a vision for the city, a plan to fight summer violence, and an eye on his officers as the coronavirus continues to infect and kill members of the
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(1949) Ralph J. Bunche, “The Barriers of Race Can be Surmounted”
In his years as a Howard University professor in the 1930s, Ralph J. Bunche subscribed to Marxist ideas.  However by 1949 Bunche was Acting United Nations Mediator for Palestine and had become much more conservative.  His then contemporary views were reflected in a commencement address given at
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Source: Black Past
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May
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1949
Jefferson County Declares State of Emergency, Imposes Curfew
Joining some of its largest municipalities, Jefferson County on Tuesday declared a state of emergency and implemented a 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew through June
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Source: The Birmingham Times
(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  His acceptance speech appears
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Source: Black Past
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Dec
10
1964
City Council Places Oakland Youth Vote Measure on November Ballot | Post News Group
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to place an Oakland Youth Vote measure on the November ballot, which would give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in Board of Education
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DRC: Deadly landslide infuriates residents near Goma
At least one child died and two others missing in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo following
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Angola: Saurimo's Administrator Invites Entrepreneurs to Invest
Saurimo — The municipal administrator of Saurimo city, eastern Lunda Sul, Neves Romão, invited Tuesday, national and foreign businessmen to invest in the region in order to create employment to young people and contribute to their development in the
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How John Lewis' March Trilogy Can Teach Students About Civil Rights
March is a comic book-style trilogy that recounts the experiences of Congressman John Lewis in the nations struggle for civil rights. The graphics in this memoir make the text engaging for its target audience, students in grades eight-12. Teachers can use the slim paperbacks (under 150 pages) in
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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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Today is World Environment Day
Writing in the Ghana Daily Mail, Mr Prosper Kwame Antwi – a prominent conservationist and biodiversity expert, calls on governments and people of the world in general, and Ghana in particular, to harness and utilise natural resources in a sustainable manner that puts the environment at the heart of
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Andre Harrell to be Honored In Upcoming TV Special, Jamie Foxx, Babyface and Mariah Carey Scheduled to Appear
Andre Harrell‘s ex-wife Wendy Credle said her former partner once stated that he wanted a party to celebrate his life after he passed, not a sad
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Spike Lee says he feels ‘good’ about current protests
Director Spike Lee did what he does best and created a short film right after the killing of George
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Kenya: The Making of an Award Winning Hand Washing Project
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Minnesota's Black Newspapers Speak Out | Dallas Weekly
Two editors from Black Press of America newspapers on the frontlines of the uprising in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by four police officers, joined a National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) livestream broadcast on Saturday, May 30, to discuss up-to-the-minute
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Covid-19: Tabichi calls for long term education plan for Africa
The 2019 Global Teacher Award winner Peter Tabichi has joined African top tutors to address education among the poor during the Covid-19
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Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential | Afro
Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: One Participant Remembers
In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through
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Source: Black Past
Black Youth Are Central Force in California George Floyd Protests
Sale and other members of the youth-led movement met officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) at the steps on the east side of the state building adjacent to California State Capitol
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Maynard, Robert C. (1937-1993)
Robert C. Maynard, the first African American editor and owner of a major daily newspaper in the United States, was known as a trailblazing journalist who led efforts to desegregate newsrooms and educate minority students to pursue careers in
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Source: Black Past
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Aug
19
1993
(2000) Harold Ford, “Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention"
In 2000 at the National Democratic Convention in Los Angeles where Vice President Al Gore, Jr., won the Democratic Nomination for President,  fellow Tennessean,  Congressman Harold Ford of Memphis, gave the Keynote Address.  That address appears
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Source: Black Past
Tupac in Sarajevo: The Rise of Rebellion Rap in Eastern Europe
Vildana Muratovic, a native of Bosnia-Herzegovina and now a citizen of the United States, describes the impact of hip-hop music on the people of the Balkans following her 1997 return to Sarajevo.  Her paper was written in
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Africa's Youth Scholars Harvest Ideas On the Business of Agriculture
Like: Adewale, Alleluyanatha and Gilberthe are just three of the 80 young African scholars that are tackling the business of agriculture through the innovativeness and freshness that comes with youth -- while obtaining their masters or doctoral degrees in the process. He has long championed the
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In Africa schools are closed but learning goes on
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Uganda: NRM Party MPs in Double-Your-Money Bonanza
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Nkom, Alice (1945- )
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