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Goliath J. Davis, III, Ph.D. Goliath J. Davis, III, Ph.D., Contributor PINELLAS COUNTY Voters will soon cast their ballots for candidates seeking the Pinellas County District 7 school board seat. Given the true state of affairs with education and the achievement gap in Pinellas County, a true advocate, not another placeholder, is desperately needed. Black []

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1777 - New Jersey opens public schools for black children.

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Displaced workers can get fast training at SPC

PINELLAS COUNTY When COVID-19 forced the closure of shops, restaurants, hotels, bars, and entertainment venues, many people found themselves without jobs. Though job loss is regrettable, St. Petersburg Colleges Dean of Workforce Development Michael Ramsey says the downtime is a great time to earn

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School Enrollment in Apartheid South Africa

It is well known that one of the fundamental differences between the experiences of Whites and Blacks in Apartheid era South Africa was education. Whilst the battle against enforced education in Afrikaans was eventually won, the Apartheid governments Bantu education policy meant that Black children

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NYC possible coronavirus-related cases in kids are mostly Black and Hispanic

READ MORE: 15 children in NYC have possibly COVID-related illness

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Former Garbage Man Now Harvard Law Student—24 Years Old Student Who Collects Garbage to Support His Studies All the Way to Harvard Law School - The New York Beacon

By Joséphine Li Recent college graduate Rehan Staton is a 24-year-old man from Maryland who used to collect garbage to pay through college. Despite all the hardships he experienced, now he’s heading to Harvard Law School. Misery loves company. At that time, financial issues

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Cairo march highlights past heartland civil rights activism

Cairo, Ill. (AP) – About 50 people marched the streets of Cairo the evening of June 19 calling for an end to racism and discrimination ...

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(1994) General Colin Powell Urges African American Students to Reject Racial Hatred

By 1994 Colin Powell, the son of a Jamaica-born Harlem merchant, had already served as National Security Adviser to President George Herbert Walker Bush and chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Persian Gulf War. He would become the first African American Secretary of State in 2001 under

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(2013) President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

On January 21, President Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, beginning his second term in office. His inauguration address appears

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List of African-American Republicans

Houston A.P. Bassett (1857–1920), member of the Texas House of Representatives

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Jim Crow Laws: Tennessee, 1866-1955

The State of Tennessee enacted 20 Jim Crow laws between 1866 and 1955, including six requiring school segregation, four which outlawed miscegenation, three which segregated railroads, two requiring segregation for public accommodations, and one which mandated segregation on streetcars. The 1869

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Solange’s Saint Heron Partners With Parsons School Of Design To Celebrate Class Of 2020

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Baton Rouge Resident Blasts School Board Member For Shopping Online During His Speech About Confederate Monument

“You are the example of racism in this community.”

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MASK UP! ST. PETE Campaign targets COVID-19 in South St. Pete, beginning Friday, July 3

By J.A. Jones According to the most recent Florida statistics, COVID-19 is skyrocketing in Pinellas County and is being largely felt in communities of Black people. Numbers indicate that Black people are contracting COVID-19 at rates four times higher than whites. Reasons for these numbers could

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PROF. AKINOLA ANTHONY ABEL AGBOOLA, THE FIRST PROFESSOR OF AGRONOMY IN AFRICA TAKES A BOW - African Voice Newspaper

By Olakunle Agboola (+2348122054098) On the 25of June 2020, the foremost soil scientist anderudite scholar, Akinola Agbooladropped the baton of life.Although gone, his immense contribution in the field of Agriculture will not be easily forgotten across the continent of Africa and the rest of the

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Ghana: Facebook Oversight Board to Promote Rights of Users - Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei

The establishment of an Oversight Board to make rulings about content moderation on Facebook and Instagram indicates the company's determination to promote the rights of users and freedom of expression, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Programme Manager at the Open Society

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Research Paper Writing Service - How to Obtain the Very Best - NewsDay Zimbabwe

Locating the ideal research paper writing service would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Thousands of unique companies exist and are making promises which are just not true. I think in the most common sense of the people and This Is the Reason I have broken them down into three

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(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”

By 1963 Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace had emerged as the leading opponent to the growing civil rights movement. Six months later he gained international notoriety for his stand in the door of the University of Alabama to block the entrance of two black students, Vivian Malone and James

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Collins, Barbara-Rose (1939- )

U.S. Congresswoman Barbara-Rose Collins was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 13, 1939 to Lunar N. and Vera (Jones) Richardson. Collins attended Wayne State University in Detroit. Her career began at Wayne State University where she served as business manager, worked in the Physics department, and

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Larry Aubry, Lying Down Like a Hill: Still Having Height, Always Pointing Upward

To rightly remember and honor Larry Aubry is to recognize, appreciate and strive to emulate the long length and value-grounded variousness of his service for the Good, the depth of love for his people, and his uncompromising commitment to them and their struggle for liberation and racial and social

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Marilyn F. Booker serves as the Head of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s (MSSB) Urban Markets Group. In this new role, she will be running a financial advisory business within MSSB focusing specifically on the Harlem and Washington Heights sections of New York City. The Urban Markets Group’s mission

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Preserved – Level 2 Christianity | Dallas Weekly

“I’m going to show you level 1 first, then the next verse we’ll do level 2.” The first time I heard these words in one of my cardio dance classes a few years ago, I thought “There’s a level 2! I thought level 1 was hard enough.” Since I was new to working out, the thought of []

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Prince Hall (c. 1735–1738—1807)[1] was an African American noted as an abolitionist for his leadership in the free black community in Boston and as the founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry. He lobbied for education rights for black children and was active in the back-to-Africa

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Peck, David Jones (c. 1826-1855)

David Jones Peck was the first black man to graduate from an American medical school. He was born to John C. and Sarah Peck in Carlisle, Pennsylvania around 1826. John Peck was a prominent abolitionist and minister who founded the local African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Carlisle. Peck was

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The storm is coming, now what?

PINELLAS COUNTY The time to put your survival plan into action is when forecasters predict a hurricane is headed toward Pinellas County. Forecasters use a “cone of certainty” to show areas likely to be impacted by a storm. Do not wait until the last minute! You need to start getting ready as soon

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Sinde, Yalonda (1963- )

Yalonda Sinde was born in Seattle Washington to working-class parents. Her father was a steward with Amtrak for many years and her late mother was a hairdresser. She is the oldest of three sisters. Sinde’s father inspired much of her activism. “Watching what my father endured as a black

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Ralph Bunche , in full Ralph Johnson Bunche (born Aug. 7, 1904, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1971, New York, N.Y.), U.S. diplomat, a key member of the United Nations for more than two decades, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Peace for his successful negotiation of an Arab-Israeli

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BOOK CORNER: Retired military man teaches leadership in new memoir -

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Saint Peter Claver Church, San Antonio, Texas (1888- )

Saint Peter Claver (Mission) Church was the first AfricanAmerican Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas. The church was built by Irish-born Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, the widowof John Bernard Murphy, who was the mayor of Corpus Christi from 1889 to1884. Margaret Mary Healy Murphy movedfrom Corpus

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First AME Church, Oakland (1858- )

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Ethiopian family joyful as migrant daughter safely returns from Lebanon | Africanews

A quarter of a million migrants are employed as domestic workers in Lebanon, the majority of them Ethiopians. Most of these migrants face harsh sometimes life threatening conditions in the line of

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