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From bush beds to Buckingham Palace

It was a dream come true for Albert Uter to be able to leave the suffering that he had come to know and seek a better life in a foreign country. But it was not as easy to get where he wanted to, and it mostly definitely was not smooth sailing when...

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Phillis Wheatley freed

Poet Phillis Wheatley, born a slave in 1754, was freed and her first book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published. The book of poetry is said to have been widely acclaimed in the United States and England.

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Jan

21

1773

Richmond, Bill (1763 – 1829)

BillRichmond, a.k.a. The Black Terror, the first black boxer to gaininternational recognition, was born in Cuckolds Town (now Richmondtown), on Staten Island, NewYork, on August 5, 1763. In 1777 when the Englishtroops held New Yorkduring the revolutionary war, he served their General Earl

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Source: Black Past

Aug

5

1763

Leroy Robert Paige (better known as Satchel Paige) was an American baseball player who played for the Negro Leagues as well as MLB (Major League Baseball) teams. He was born on July 7, 1906 in Alabama, the 7th of 12 children in his family. His actual date of birth has been a point of contention but

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Source: Black History Resources

Jun

8

1982

Zimbabwe: Hundreds Defy Govt Mourner Limit to Bury Late Prominent Masvingo Bus Operator

Hundreds of Masvingo residents Thursday ignored the government's lockdown restrictions to give prominent bus operator Tanda 'Mhunga' Tavaruva a fitting send-off at a local

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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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Kissi, Emmanuel Abu (1938– )

Emmanuel Abu Kissi, a prominent convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was born in 1938 in Abomosu, Ghana. He married Benedicta Elizabeth Bamfo in June 1970, and they are the parents of seven children. Kissi attended medical school in London, England, and there came into

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First Black Female Law Firm

Attorneys Margaret Burnham, Geraldine Hines, and Judith Dilday established the first Black female law firm in New England in 1989. Located in Boston, Burnham, Hines and Dilday specialize in family law, divorce, wills, custody, and civil and criminal litigation.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) dəbois´ [key], 1868–1963, American civil-rights leader and author, b. Great Barrington, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1890 M.A., 1891 Ph.D., 1895). Du Bois was an early exponent of full equality for African Americans and a cofounder (1905) of the

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Nicholas Stone, Sr.

Nicholas Stone, Sr. , (born 1585/88, Woodbury, Devon, England—died August 24, 1647, Winchester, Hampshire?), the most important English mason-sculptor of the early 17th

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Aug

24

1647

Congo-Kinshasa: Jordan Botaka - Officially At La Gantoise

Jordan Botaka has changed club but remains in Jupiler Pro

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Bonetta, Sarah Forbes (1843-1880)

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, is best known as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Bonetta was born in 1843 in what is now southwest Nigeria. Her parents names are unknown as are the names of her siblings who were all killed in the 1847

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Lewis Temple of Massachusetts invents the toggleharpoon wich becomes the stand

Lewis Temple of Massachusetts invents the toggle harpoon wich becomes the standard harpoon of the New England Whaling industry; he never receives a patent for his invention and dies penniless.

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Jan

0

1848

Poro School and Beauty Shoppe

From 1927 to 1942 a branch of the Poro School and Beauty Shoppe on Massachusetts Avenue, established and managed by E. Alice Taylor, was one of the Black-owned firms in New England. The school had an annual enrollment of 150 students, and the Beauty Shoppe had a staff of 15 professional

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Dan Jacobson - Birthday

Dan Jacobson , (born March 7, 1929, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 12, 2014, London, England), South African-born novelist and short-story writer who wrote with both humour and pathos of the troubled land of his birth and of his eastern European Jewish heritage, though in his later work he

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Mar

7

1929

No home, no hope ... It’s a dog’s life

Deprived of work and access to aid, thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa living in Morocco are struggling to make ends meet under Covid-19

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Phillis Wheatley

The young girl who was to become Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and taken to Boston on a slave ship in 1761 and purchased by a tailor, John Wheatley, as a personal servant for his wife, Susanna. She was treated kindly in the Wheatley household, almost as a third child. The Wheatleys soon recognized

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By late August 2011, President Martelly had spent his first 100 days in office without completing his first objective: forming a government. Parliament, led by opposition, turned down his choice for prime minister twice. This left Haiti without a functioning government a year and a half after an

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Oct

5

2011

Jack Cope , byname of Robert Knox Cope (born June 3, 1913, Mooi River, South Africa—died May 1991, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England), South African writer best known for his short stories and novels about South African

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Jun

3

1913

Marcus Garvey - Death

Ann’s Bay, Jamaica—died June 10, 1940, London, England), charismatic black leader who organized the first important American black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem.

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Jun

10

1940

Craig Arnold is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eaton Corporation. Arnold was appointed to his current position in June 2016, upon the retirement of the previous Chairman and CEO Alexander

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Africa: I Beat COVID-19, You Too Can-Says WHO Staff

On 19 April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria confirmed the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as one staff member in the field tested

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Refused to Fight Against the U.S.

Richard Seavers, a Black Boston seaman who entered the British navy prior to the outbreak of the War of 1812, refused to fight against the United States and was therefore sentenced to England's Dartmoor Prison.

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Wig Manufacturer

The largest wig manufacturer in Boston in the early 1900s was Gilbert C. Harris. By 1910 his mail-order business was the largest of its kind in New England, supplying theatrical stock companies throughout the country.

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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 "My personal battle from a positive to a negative result"

A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March

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Molyneux, Thomas (1784–1818)

By all rights Thomas Molyneux should have become recognized as the first world boxing champion from the United States. Born in 1784 to parents enslaved by a wealthy Virginian plantation owner named Molyneux, Tom— because of his size and strength— was selected to engage in prizefighting matches with

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Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson

Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York

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2

1961

Julius Nyerere - Death

Julius Nyerere , in full Julius Kambarage Nyerere, also called Mwalimu (Swahili: “Teacher”) (born March 1922, Butiama, Tanganyika—died October 14, 1999, London, England), first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of Tanzania (1964).

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Oct

14

1999

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison - Quotes

Beloved by Toni Morrison - Quotes

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Oct

25

2016

African Americans in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta: The Black Community of Weed, California

In the following article, James Langford, the first black teacher in Weed, briefly describes the history of the African American community there. Langford, who graduated from California State University at San Francisco with an elementary teaching credential in the spring of 1974, began teaching

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Death of George Washington Williams

Death of George Washington Williams (41), Blackpool, England. Williams served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1880 to 1881, during the 64th session of the General Assembly. He was the first African-American to serve in the Ohio Legislature.

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1891

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