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Yolanda Richardson and Adetokunbo “Toks” Omishakin, are officially assuming their roles as state government executives in Sacramento at a time when the state is implementing deep cuts to its fiscal year 2020-21 budget in response to the global COVID-19
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Millennial Politicians Fight for Equity in D.C. | Afro
Despite the District’s loyal love for leaders, there are millennial politicians who are on a mission to improve their beloved city, including Ward 8 representative and vice president of the State Board of Education (SBOE), Markus Batchelor and former president of the D.C. Young Democrats
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Clyburn, James Enos (1940– )
James Enos Clyburn was born in Sumter, South Carolina on July 21, 1940 to parents Enos and Almeta Clyburn.  James Clyburn’s father was a minister and his mother was a cosmetologist.  In 1957 James Clyburn graduated from Mather Academy located in Camden, South Carolina.  Four years later he
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21
1940
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. , (born Nov. 29, 1908, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died April 4, 1972, Miami, Fla.), black American public official and pastor who became a prominent liberal legislator and civil-rights
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1972
Check It Out: Banning the banned chokehold
Now, I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as a starting point to sympathize with President Trump’s recent executive order banning chokeholds except if the officer’s life is at
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The History of Black History Month
In the following article Daryl Michael Scott, Professor of History at Howard University and Vice President of Program for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, describes the history of the Black History Month
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Cops Are ‘Shaking Their Heads’ At Biden As Military Leaders Distance Themselves From Trump
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How Martin Luther King Day Became a Federal Holiday
On Nov. 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday, effective Jan. 20, 1986. As a result of this bill, Americans commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday on the third Monday in January. Few Americans are aware of the history of Martin Luther
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Guest Editorial: Reform qualified immunity for police
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Paris Dennard Doesn’t Shy Away from Backing Trump
Paris Dennard is one African American who thinks President Donald Trump has improved the lives of Black people in the United
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Trump rally highlights vulnerabilities heading into election | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump’s return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength and enthusiasm heading into the critical final months before an election that will decide whether he remains in the White
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Donald Trump a Voice of Reason on Police Reform.
Before he signed an executive order on police reform in the Rose Garden, Trump had reached out to the families of black men killed by police or vigilantes and met with them
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Trump Keeps Raising 'Obamagate.' What's That?
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Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles
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Kelly, Robin L. (1956– )
Democrat Congresswoman Robin Kelly represents Illinois’s 2nd District, which includes Kankakee County and parts of Cook and Will Counties. It includes Chicago’s south suburbs and Southeast Side. Kelly was first elected on April 9, 2013, when the state of Illinois held a special election to fill the
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Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles
Yolanda Richardson and Adetokunbo “Toks” Omishakin, are officially assuming their roles as state government executives in Sacramento at at time when the state is implementing deep cuts to its fiscal year 2020-21 budget in response to the global COVID-19
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
Tammy Duckworth: Trump's Use Of Military Against Protesters Is "Disgusting"
Now, President Donald Trump is using military helicopters ― along with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades ― to intimidate Americans protesting racism and police brutality outside the White
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America
Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden clarified his message to Black America after the GOP, and others, seized on a remark he made in jest while wrapping up an interview with the famous Breakfast
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Mallory, Mark (1962-- )
On December 1, 2005, Mark Mallory was sworn in as the first black mayor elected by popular vote in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Three other black mayors preceded him but were chosen by the City Council.  Born on April 2, 1962, and raised on the West End of Cincinnati, Mallory attended high school at the
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`When Does It Stop?’ Slain Man’s Family Makes Tearful Plea
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Texans urge state education board to expand sex education policy, include LGBTQ
At a marathon virtual hearing Monday, dozens of Texans implored the State Board of Education to dramatically update the minimum statewide standards for what Texas public school students are taught about sex and health, policies which have not been revised since
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Lynch, John Roy (1847-1939)
John Roy Lynch, congressman, soldier, and author was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana on September 10, 1847 to Patrick Lynch, an Irish immigrant and Catherine White, a slave.  Lynch’s father died soon after his birth.   Lynch and his mother were then traded to a plantation in
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2
1939
Payne, Donald Milford (1934-2012)
Donald Payne, a Democrat, was the first African American elected to Congress from the State of New Jersey.  Payne was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 16, 1934. He earned a B.A. degree in social studies from Seton Hall University in 1957 and also has honorary doctorates from Chicago State
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Trump to tour Ford's ventilator assembly plant near Detroit
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Legendary Community Politicians
From the mid-1920s through the 1950s, brothers Silas F. and Balcom S. Taylor, Registered Pharmacists, championed voter registration, jobs, housing, and political participation for Blacks in Boston, when there were no elected Black officials in city or state government. Their drugstore on Tremont
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African-American communities suffer from institutional racism amid COVID-19: Fauci
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(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
Long termed a “race riot,” the turmoil that enveloped Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 is now called an armed insurrection. White supremacists drove from power all of the black and white elected officials of this predominately African American city in what was believed to
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