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A new order issued by the state Supreme Court could put thousands of Virginia residents at risk of losing their homes during the pandemic.
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Long-lost World War I War Medal Returned To Australian Family – The Wilmington Journal
MELBOURNE, Australia — A First World War medal that went missing on a Melbourne beach nearly a century ago is finally back with the recipient’s family. Robert Stanley Gordon Smith lost his British Victory Medal at [...]
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Durban Botanical Gardens' enchanting Trail of Lights returns
The city's botanical gardens have reopened and are bringing back their most popular seasonal event this December.
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Rapper Nas Awarded With Designated Day In Queens
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‘The Great Gatsby’ Enters The Public Domain, And The People Want A Muppets Version
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Visit Julia Child's Georgetown Home This Saturday - Metro Weekly
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Researcher Wants Myth of Alexander Hamilton as 'The Abolitionist Founding Father' to End with New Evidence Suggesting He Was a Slaveholder
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KC Monarchs Return After Negro Leagues Museum Partners With Minor League Baseball Team
Photo credits: Public domain image courtesy of Negro League Baseball Nearly 60 years behind the shutdown of America's legendary Kansas City Monarchs franchise from yesteryear's historic Negro Leagues, a professional baseball team in Wyandotte County, Kansas has renamed itself after the ball
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Church of MLK’s First Leadership Position Receives Funding to Become Museum 
By: ShaCamree Gowdy  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to his first leadership role in the civil rights movement on December 5, 1955, at the Mt. Zion AME Church in Alabama. The deteriorating structure has now been given funds to be turned into a museum, per The Associated Press.  RELATED: How
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North Carolina man Floyd Ray Roseberry was arrested Thursday afternoon after he threatened to blow up the Library of Congress.
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African American History Museum Among Friday’s Reopenings
Several D.C. museums shuttered last fall due to the coronavirus pandemic reopened Friday, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The post African American History Museum Among Friday's Reopenings appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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African American History Museum to Reopen in May - The Washington Informer
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Ritchie Torres on making history, his progressive credentials, and giving hope to LGBTQ youth - African American News Today - EIN News
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Celebrating Women All Year Long – Florida Courier
By Wendy Zang, McClatchy-Tribune It wasn’t until 1987 that Congress declared March Women’s History Month, in celebration of women’s contributions and achievements. The month was a step up from Women’s History Week, which had been recognized, first in Sonoma, Calif., in the late 1970s, and then
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Wrong is wrong - Dallas Examiner
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James Van Der Zee: Black Photographer Who Chronicled Harlem’s Heyday | Post News Group
James Van Der Zee (1886–1983) would have two careers in photography: locally, as Harlem’s photographer during the 1920s and 30s, and nationally, when his works from the same decades were featured in the exhibition ‘Harlem on My Mind’ at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of
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David Drake: A Potter Who Inscribed His Work With Poetry | Post News Group
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Bomb Threat Puts U.S. Capitol on Lockdown | BlackPressUSA
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BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Daisy Bates, Civil Rights Activist, Newspaper Publisher, Little Rock Nine Organizer
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Exhibition on Dallas Nine artist Everett Spruce opens at the Carter in August | Dallas Weekly
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) announces Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce, the first exhibition in nearly 30 years to highlight the pioneering and inventive career of Texas artist Everett Spruce (1908–2002). Featuring nearly 50 works from private and public
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