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Italy Was Hit Hard In the First Wave of the Pandemic. Its Schools Are Still Recovering.

After Italy shut down in March as the Covid-19 pandemic spiraled out of control, only a handful of the middle school students Liliana Starace works ...

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Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia.

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Jul

22

1848

Born in a small town of Sealy, Texas, in 1960, Eric Dickerson was raised by his uncle and aunt after his mother decided not to marry his father at the young age of 17. Even though he did not grow up with his father, Dickerson inherited athletic abilities from the former running back of Prairie View

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Florence Price, composer born

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Apr

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1888

First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born,

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Jul

18

1753

William H Heard

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Feb

23

1895

Al Sharpton is a religious leader and political activist. He was born on October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father left the family and Sharpton was raised by his mother. They had to move to the public housing projects, where his mother worked as a maid and supported the family on her

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1954

James Weldon Johnson

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1938

Storm of '28 Highlights

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Sep

16

1928

Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, appointed secretary of state by the Florida governor.

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Nov

6

1868

Rev.Philip A. Potter

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Aug

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1972

Civil Rights March in Alabama

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1965

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Dawson, Horace G. (1926- )

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Minister To Liberia

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Jul

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1927

John Stephens Durham

John Stephens Durham, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, named minister to Haiti.

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Sep

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1891

The start of Integration for MD public schools, and Washington DC public school,

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Sep

7

1954

Students Seize college building

Howard University students seized administration building. Students were demanding campus reform and Black-oriented curriculum. Civil rights forces mobilized in support of striking hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Mar

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1968

Birthday of Eldridge Cleaver

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Aug

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1935

Beah, Ishmael (1980– )

Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his personal history, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider. Beah was born on November 23, 1980, in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The Sierra Leone Civil War started in March

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African-American Firsts Quiz

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Born on the December 4, 1973, Tyra Lynne Banks is one of the most famous American television personalities. Better known for her flawless career as a model, she has also been a producer, actress and author. She appeared twice on the cover for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and was one of

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After several postponements by President Gbagbo, Côte dIvoire held its first presidential election in ten years in Oct. 2010. The first round of voting between incumbent Gbagbo and his historic rival Alassane Ouattara, a former IMF official who was excluded from the presidential 2000 race because

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Rhodes, J. Steven (1951- )

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Leontyne Price has achieved heights in the music world that many aspire to but that very few reach. As a singer she became famous all around the world. Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927. As a youth, she sang in church choirs. Later, she attended Central State

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Fort Lawton (Seattle) “Riot” and POW Lynching, 1944

On August 14, 1944, African American soldiers “rioted” against Italian prisoners of war at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, an Army staging area for combat in the Pacific. American officers and POWs under their guard were severely beaten. The next morning one of the POWs, Guglielmo Olivotto, was

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