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The City Council on Wednesday unanimously passed Mayor Eric Johnson’s “Dallas First” procurement
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Flake, Green (1828-1903)
Born enslaved on January 6, 1828 on the Jordan Flake Plantation in Anson County, North Carolina, Green Flake at the age of ten was given as a wedding gift to James Madison Flake, Jordan’s son who married Agnes Love in 1838 in Anson County, North Carolina.  The couple moved shortly thereafter to
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The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
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Joseph, James A. (1935- )
James A. Joseph is a lifelong educator and public policy activist who served as the first African American U.S. ambassador to post-apartheid South Africa from 1996-1999.  Joseph has worked to promote leadership opportunities in both the corporate world and through the Federal government.  The
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Not afraid of dying
In addition, I have witnessed many people die so I’m comfortable with facing
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Ball, Jr. Joseph T. (1804-1861)
Joseph T. Ball, Jr. was born Feb. 21, 1804 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His mother Mary Montgomery Drew of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was white while his father was Jamaican-born Joseph T. Ball, Sr who came to Massachusetts in 1790. The elder Ball founded a society to help African American widows
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James, Jane Elizabeth Manning (1813-1908)
Jane Elizabeth Manning was born in Wilton, Connecticut, one of five children of Isaac and Phyllis Manning, a free black family.  Although Jane was a member of the local Presbyterian Church, she remained spiritually unfulfilled until 1842 when she heard the message of a missionary for the Church of
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Courier urges our community to vote in the upcoming June 2 Primary Election
Pennsylvania’s Primary Election is June 2, and due to the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a huge push for residents to vote via mail-in
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Actress Lynn Whitfield Talks 'Greenleaf,' Divorce, and Her Own Journey of Faith (Video)
Since its 2016 premiere, loyal fans have followed the scandals, secrets, and lies within the Greenleaf family and their Memphis megachurch on OWN’s hit series
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Some Say If Retail Stores Are Open, Churches Should Be Too. Here's Why It's Not So Simple.
Last week, President Donald Trump called on governors to reopen houses of worship, calling it an “injustice” that that “liquor stores and abortion clinics” were open when churches were
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a history timeline when African Americans begin using the Internet
Arthur McGee’s Black Online Directory hotlinks and his energy in keeping them straight was THE FIRST open-source list of Black Online User Communities at the time and he knew every SYSOP
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Christianity: General
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Nigeria
Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps
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Sierra Leone
Coordinates: 8°30′N 11°30′W / 8.500°N 11.500°W 15% others Sierra Leone (/s iː ˈ ɛər ə l iː ˈ oʊ n iː, -l iː ˈ oʊ n/  (  listen)),[6] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north-east, Liberia to the south-east, and the Atlant
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(1877) John E. Bruce, “Reasons Why the Colored American Should Go to Africa”
As African Americans increasingly realized that Reconstruction would not usher in permanent citizenship rights and in fact did not protect them from violence, some black leaders began to call for alternative approaches. Not surprisingly a some again urged African American colonization in Africa. In
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Inquirer Mourns the Loss of Friend, Coach Joseph Fitzhugh
Joseph Fitzhugh graduated from Booker T. Washington High School, Atlanta, Georgia in 1947 after being drafted into the U. S. Army in
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‘I just want this case to be over’
The six-year-wait to get a judge’s notes of proceedings has left senior citizen Monica Sommerville frustrated, depressed and upset that her appeal cannot proceed against a Supreme Court ruling. Sommerville had filed a suit seeking a declaration...
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Doudou N’diaye Rose
Doudou N’diaye Rose (Mamadou N’diaye), (born July 28, 1930, Dakar, French West Africa [now in Senegal]—died Aug. 19, 2015, Dakar), Senegalese drummer and bandleader who was a virtuoso percussionist who earned the appellation “mathematician of rhythm” for the complex rhythmic
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1930
Muhammad, Benjamin Franklin Chavis
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COGIC calls off Holy Convocation as pandemic continues to rock the church and the nation
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Nigeria: those behind drone strike to be "punished" | Africanews
The Nigerian government promised on Thursday to "punish" those responsible for the accidental bombing of civilians last Sunday in the north-west of the country, at a time when the army is under fire from civil society.
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'Selma' director Ava DuVernay among three Freedom Award recipients
The slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, the “I Have a Dream” speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the “Black Lives Matter” meme of today’s protesters all testify to the power of words in the struggle for social justice in
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Back-to-Africa movement
The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements ranging
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Homegoing Services For Ralph Sumers Smoote Wednesday First Baptist Church Tulsa At 12 Noon | The Oklahoma Eagle
Ralph Sumers Smoote was born to Lucille Riser Smoote and Artie Raymond Smoote, Sr. in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 15 November 1962
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Le Moyne-Owen College (1862- )
Le Moyne-Owen College is a private, historically black, four year, co-educational, liberal arts institution located in Memphis, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.  The institution can trace its roots back to 1862, when the American Missionary Association (AMA) sent
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Johnson, Joseph William "Billy" (1934–2012)
Joseph William “Billy” Johnson, an import officer for the state metal industries of Ghana, played a foundational role in establishing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that African nation in the 1960s. Johnson was born on December 17, 1934, in Lagos, Nigeria. While
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2012
African immigration to the United States
African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries. The term African in the scope of this article refers to geographical or national origins rather than racial affiliation. Between the Immigration and Nationality
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Op-Ed: We Have a Right to be Angry!
In the last several months, we have witnessed the outcry of God’s people in so many ways—people wailing and moaning with tears of disbelief, death, and
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[Poem] An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon
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