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A List of Famous African-Americans Who Spent Time in Africa
Most people know about the forced emigration of millions of Africans to the Americas as slaves. Far fewer think of the voluntary flow of the descendants of those slaves back across the Atlantic to visit or live in
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Jackson, Jessie Louis, Sr. (1941- )
Long before he became a minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, Jesse Louis Jackson impressed his family and close friends as a person destined for greatness.  Born
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Source: Black Past
Oct
8
1941
Mona K. Sutphen
Mona K. Sutphen is a Partner of Macro Advisory Partners LLP, a consulting firm that provides strategic advice in the areas of financial markets, geopolitics and government policy. Previously, Sutphen was Managing Director at UBS AG, a global financial
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Barack Obama Humor: Classic Jokes, Cartoons and Videos
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14
2017
Harriet Tubman on the Twenty Dollar Bill
Harriet Tubman was an amazing woman: she escaped slavery, freed hundreds of others, and even worked as a spy in the Civil War. Now she’s going to grace the front of the twenty dollar bill. But is move progress or
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12
2015
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and other American actions against Cuba as well as to President Kennedy s build-up in Italy and Turkey of U.S. strategic nuclear forces with
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of
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Barnes, Melody (1964- )
Melody Barnes was chosen by then President-elect Barack Obama to serve as the Director of Domestic Policy Council shortly after the presidential election in 2008, a position she held until her resignation at the end of 2011.  Born in Richmond, Virginia to Charles and Mary Frances Barnes in
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(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”
Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I’m going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every
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Melody C. Barnes
Melody C. Barnes is Co-Founder & Principal of MBSquared Solutions LLC. In this role, Barnes leads a domestic strategy firm and serves as Vice Provost for Global Student Leadership Initiatives at New York
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DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)
A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871.  In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator.  DePriest created his own
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May
12
1951
Jesse Owens: Four Time Olympic Gold Medalist
During the 1930s, the Great Depression, Jim Crow Era laws and de facto segregation kept African-Americans in the United States fighting for equality. In Eastern Europe, the Jewish Holocaust was well underway with German ruler Adolf Hitler spearheading a Nazi
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The White House released a statement which said
The White House released a statement which said that government policy is not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel in the same regimental organizations.
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Oct
9
1940
Hunter, Alberta (1895-1984)
Alberta Hunter was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but left for Chicago, Illinois at age 11 after her father died. She peeled potatoes in a boarding house until she could find a job singing blues, the first opportunity was at a Chicago brothel, as entertainment for the prostitutes and their
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Schmoke, Kurt L. (1949- )
Kurt L. Schmoke, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1949, came from a middle class background.  His father, Murray, a civilian chemist for the U.S. Army, was a graduate of Morehouse College, and his mother, Irene was a social worker. Schmoke attended the citys prestigious public high school, Baltimore
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Ahmaud Arbery's death was 'lynching' and White House rhetoric emboldening racism, mayor says
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has said that the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a “lynching” and that the White House’s rhetoric is emboldening racists in the
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How Is COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing Really Going? What You Need To Know
Although this may sound like an ad for standardized test scores, it is presumably referring COVID-19 coronavirus testing, claiming that the U.S. is leading the world in such
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Trump still confident in virus test despite false negatives
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump expressed no concerns Friday about a rapid coronavirus test that the White House has been relying on to ensure his safety, despite new data suggesting the test may return an inordinate share of false
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Libya
Libya stretches along the northeast coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. It is one-sixth larger than Alaska. Much of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland is arable
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Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)
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1996
What is Trump trying to achieve with 'Obamagate?' | The Atlanta Voice
What’s clear is that President Trump is attacking Obama with the goal of discrediting his opponent in 2020: Joe
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Parker, Maurice S. (1949- )
Ambassador Maurice S. Parker is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister-Counselor at the U.S. Department of State.  On April 30, 2007 Parker was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Swaziland.  After U.S. Senate confirmation, Parker
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Voters Wounded Trying To Registration
Two youths involved in voter registration drive in Mississippi were wounded by shotgun blasts fired through the window of a home in Ruleville. James Forman, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), asked the president to convene a special White House Conference to discuss means of
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Sep
11
1962
Susan Rice ‘certainly would say yes’ on possibility of being Biden’s running mate
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(2004) Al Sharpton, “Speech Before the 2004 Democratic National Convention"
In  2004 Rev. Al Sharpton of New York City, campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President.  Sharpton saw himself as the successor to Rev. Jesse Jackson who campaigned for the Presidency on behalf of the impoverished and oppressed.  Although he did not garner as much support as Jackson did
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abolition of slavery
On April 19, 1866, the African American citizensof Washington D.C. celebrated the abolition of slavery. 4,000 to 5,000 people assembled to the White House addressed by Andrew Johnson. Led by twoblack regiments the spectators, and the procession proceeded up the Pennsylvania Avenue to FranklinSquare
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19
1866
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a history timeline when African Americans begin using the Internet
Arthur McGee’s Black Online Directory hotlinks and his energy in keeping them straight was THE FIRST open-source list of Black Online User Communities at the time and he knew every SYSOP
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2020
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