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Renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the John R. Lewis Freedom Bridge | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
It is time to make a change in America. For too long we have delayed or postponed changes in our society. Congressman John Lewis passed away on July 17th. His legacy and contributions will live on forever. He was called the “conscious” of Congress. Quite fitting for a man who lived his life serving
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GAWU hopeful reopening of estates can commence soon - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, The GAWU was pleased to see President Dr Irfaan Ali spending a few moments, during his inauguration address, to speak about the sugar industry. The article GAWU hopeful reopening of estates can commence soon appeared first on Stabroek News.
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(1963) Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Religion and Race"
On January 14, 1963, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel gave the speech “Religion and Race,” at a conference of the same name that assembled in Chicago, Illinois.  There he met Dr. Martin Luther King and the two became friends.  Rabbi Heschel marched with Dr. King at Selma, Alabama in
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Black Anti-Slavery Crusaders
There were a host of free Blacks who struck out against slavery. Many of these were
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Bus conductor dies in Soesdyke crash - Stabroek News
A fatal accident early yesterday morning at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) has claimed the life of a Timehri bus conductor and left four others injured. The article Bus conductor dies in Soesdyke crash appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Martin Luther King "If I had sneezed"
Subscribe to FreeMyPeople channel. On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther Kings last speech Ive been to the Mountaintop includes a story about how if he had sneezed after being stabbed the miracles with the civil rights movement would not have
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Mahaicony labourer stabbed to death with bottle - Stabroek News
A Mahaicony labourer was fatally stabbed on Saturday by a man who had uttered threats to him following a dispute last week. The article Mahaicony labourer stabbed to death with bottle appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Willie Mays
Willie Howard Mays, Jr. is a widely respected retired American baseball player, born on May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama. He played almost 22 seasons in the American Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York/San Francisco Giants, finishing off his career at New York Mets in the early 1970s. He
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Power finally restored to Matthews Ridge - Stabroek News
The community of Matthews Ridge can breathe a collective sigh of relief now that their electricity woes have been resolved
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Police Officers Overly Tase Black Man As He Screamed Out For Help In Pennsylvania
On May 14, 2020, a video surfaced the internet of a black man from Reading, Pennsylvania being arrested and the video is
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens , (born Oct. 2, 1879, Reading, Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 2, 1955, Hartford, Conn.), American poet whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind. It was not until late in life that Stevens was read at all widely or recognized as a major poet
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(1875) Congressman James T. Rapier, “Half Free, Half Slave”
On February 4, 1875, Congressman James T. Rapier of Alabama, rose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Civil Right bill then before Congress which when enacted later that year became the Civil Rights Act of 1875.   His speech appears
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Trawlers collide with harbour bridge - Stabroek News

Two fishing trawlers belonging to Pritipaul Singh Investments Limited yesterday afternoon collided with the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), dislodging two of the

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(1919) William Pickens, “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects”
William Pickens was born in 1881, the year Tuskegee Institute was founded. By the time of Booker T. Washington’s death in 1915, Pickens at age 35 had already become a major spokesperson on the direction of black education in the United States. Born in South Carolina but educated in
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Left of Black with Joshua Bennett
Left of Black with Salamishah Tillet and David Ikard - Duration: 34:32. John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 1,024 views
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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Taban lo Liyong
Taban lo Liyong , (born 1938, Kajo Kaji, Sudan [now in South Sudan]), South Sudanese and Ugandan author whose experimental works and provocative opinions stimulated literary controversy in East
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19th-Century Sculptor
Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890) was America's first Black artist recognized for her reliefs and busts of great anti-slavery leaders and forForever Free, a composition of marble (completed in 1867) showing a man and woman overcome with emotion on hearing news of the emancipation from slavery. Lewis began
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Chase Academy fire was electrical - Stabroek News
Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has confirmed that the recent fire at Chase Academy, located on Parade Street, Kingston, was electrical in origin. The article Chase Academy fire was electrical appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Hoppie now acting Top Cop - Stabroek News

Deputy Commissioner Nigel Hoppie is currently acting as the country’s Top Cop as the leadership of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has seen another

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GG grants early release to Canadian serving time for drug smuggling
A Canadian man who was sentenced to two years and six months for attempting to smuggle 20 pounds of cocaine from Jamaica has been granted an early release by Governor General Sir Patrick
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross) was an African-American humanitarian who is remembered for her abolitionist efforts during the America Civil War. Tubman was born into slavery to Harriet Green and Ben Ross, who had a total of nine children including Harriet. Her father was owned by Anthony
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Man, 9-year-old boy die after car rolls over in accident near Ermelo | News24
A man and a nine-year-old boy have been killed, and a woman and a three-year-old boy left injured after their vehicle rolled on the N2, approximately 25km outside Ermelo.
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(1857) Frances Ellen Watkins, “Liberty For Slaves”
Frances Ellen Watkins was born of free parents in Baltimore in 1825. After teaching in New York and Pennsylvania Watkins became a full-time abolitionist speaker for the Maine Anti-Slavery Society. By the 1850s she was one of the most noted speakers on that subject as well as a highly acclaimed
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(1896) Hugh M. Browne, “The Higher Education of the Colored People of the South”
Hugh M. Browne, educator, Presbyterian minister, and college professor in Liberia, positioned himself between the advocates of industrial and higher education for African Americans.  In the speech below he describes his educational philosophy and the forces and experiences that shaped
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Fire damages Chase Academy - Stabroek News

An early morning fire yesterday damaged Chase Academy, located on Parade

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Jackie Wilson - Lonely teardrops
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Trinidad: Former lover knifed to death after walking into woman's house at 4 am - Stabroek News

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