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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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Source: Black Past
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Legislator eyes more Illinois measures to protect child influencers
(The Center Square) – TikTok and YouTube are full of videos of cute kids getting pranked and doing dumb stuff. High school student Shreya Nallamothu of Normal, Illinois, became concerned that children in video logs are being exploited. With the help of her teachers, Nallamothu worked on the issu
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Norman Lear, Producer Of ‘Good Times’ & ‘The Jeffersons,’ Has Died
Norman Lear, a screenwriter, comedy writer, and producer responsible for several hit television shows, has died at 101.
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Black Loyalists Exodus to Nova Scotia (1783)
The Black Loyalists were the approximately 3,000 African American supporters of the British during the American Revolution who were repatriated to British Canada at the end of the conflict.   Most settled in Nova Scotia and established what would be for decades, the largest concentration of black
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#ImoDecides2023: APGA candidate casts his ballot
The APGA governorship candidate, Mr Ejiogu, voted at 3.45 p.m. at the polling unit 007 in his hometown in Imo State on saturday. The post #ImoDecides2023: APGA candidate casts his ballot appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
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Kenya: Hosts Kenya Unveil Squads for 2023 Safari 7s
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Why Don’t Black People Vote? – New Orleans Data News Weekly
Kenneth Cooper Columnist Think 504.com Black people don’t be about voting. Yeah, I know, that’s a statement covered in blankets. But the numbers don’t lie, at least here in Louisiana. Pick a parish and peep [...]
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Harriet Tubman Facts: Underground Railroad and More
Harriet Tubman was a fugitive slave, underground railroad conductor, abolitionist, spy, soldier, Civil War, African American, nurse, known for her work with Underground Railroad, Civil War service, and later, her advocacy of civil rights and woman
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Legislature Revisits Bill That Would Increase Voter Registration Options for Californians
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) - A bill that would have given more “entities” the authority to register eligible voters in Californians, Senate Bill (SB) 299, stalled in the Senate Health Committee last June. The bill’s language also promises to further autom
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colored state park (circa 1948-1958)
During a brief time after WWII(1948-1958), all southern states had colored state parks that were far inferior to white parks, but served as recreation areas to the black population. In Georgia, George Washington Carver State park, on Lake Allatoona just North of Acworth, was Built by Mr. John Loyd
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BlackPast.org - To Understand the Present, You Must Enter the Past
BlackPast.org is a one-stop shop for everything you want to know about African-American history. Chock full of robust, easy to use features and one of a kind facts and information, everyone will find something of value in this amazing website. Watch this brief video to learn more. Visit the
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« Grand Theft Auto » : le studio Rockstar Games annonce une bande-annonce pour le prochain épisode - Haiti24
Le logo du studio Rockstar Games. La nouvelle ne prendra personne par surprise : le studio Rockstar Games travaille bien sur une suite à Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V), c’est-à-dire, avec ses près de 200 millions d’exemplaires écoulés, le deuxième jeu vidéo le plus vendu de l’histoire. Une annonce
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Uganda: Environmental Sustainability to Dominate Upcoming AFRAA Assembly in Kampala
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What Were South African Apartheid Era Identity Numbers?
The South African Identity Number of the 1970s and 80s enshrined the Apartheid era ideal of racial registration. It was brought in to effect by the 1950 Population Registration Act which identified four different racial groups: White, Coloured, Bantu (Black) and others. Over the next two decades
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Maryland is a hub for innovation — but we can't take that for granted
By Husein Sharaf Maryland has long been a center of invention. That's one reason I located Cloudforce, my own rapidly growing cloud consulting company, in the National Harbor area. I […] The post Maryland is a hub for innovation — but we can't take that for granted appeared firs
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Reclaiming Guyana’s Oil Wealth: Confronting political timidity and the surrender of sovereignty - Stabroek News
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Bipartisan support for fiscal commission focusing on massive federal budget deficit
Signs of bipartisanship emerged Wednesday from a House Budget Committee hearing focused on a fiscal commission that would address the nation's deficit. The House Budget Committee discussed the pros and cons of a bipartisan, bicameral fiscal commission. While Democrats and Republicans have differ
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Suspended sentence for St Catherine woman who pleaded guilty to child cruelty
A St Catherine woman who pleaded guilty to cruelty to a child was on Wednesday handed a two-year suspended sentence in the parish court. Presiding judge Yvette Wenthworth-Miller also imposed six months of parental supervision on the 49-year-old....
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Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (1827- )
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Menthol ban aimed at Black smokers; high profile moms, activists agree | New Pittsburgh Courier
After tobacco companies targeted Black communities and enticed Black consumers to smoke menthol cigarettes, i.e., first Kools, then Newports and finally Parliament menthol, congress is looking to end the madness and ban menthol cigarettes. The U.S. Surgeon General’s warning printed on the side of
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Junta-run Chad opens campaign for key December referendum | Africanews
More than 8.3 million people in the vast but poor Sahel country are called on to vote in a referendum slated for December 17, in a key step towards the elections and establishing civilian rule.
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Freedmen and Their Well Deserved Lands
Reports from all over the South said freedmen had abandoned plantations in expectation of a general distribution of land. General Rufus Saxton, Freedmens Bureau commander in South Carolina, said the impression is universal among the freedmen that they are to have the abandoned and confiscated
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Dec
25
1865
Kenya: Standoff as MPs Walk Out Over Delayed CDF Disbursement
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Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment
In the account below University of Quebec at Montreal historian Greg Robinson describes the activies of Hugh MacBeth, a black Los Angeles attorney, on behalf of the Japanese American citizens and resident aliens incarcerated during World War
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Bennett College [Greensboro] (1873- )
Bennett College opened in 1873 when seventy African American women and men began gathering for primary and secondary studies in the basement of Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.  White northern philanthropists contributed tremendously to the school, including
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Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington (1890- )
Home to the largest African American congregation in the state of Washington, MountZion Baptist Church was organized in Seattle on February 18, 1894.  Led by Reverend Hesekiah C. Rice, eightfounding members initially met in a rented hall on the campus of the Universityof Washington, which was in
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The Tuskegee Airmen - Theyz coloured Flyers
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Grace Ogot
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Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director,
Whitney M. Young, Jr. was Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 until his tragic, untimely death in 1971. He worked tireless to bring the races together, and joined the tenets of social work, of which he was an outstanding practitioner, to the social activism that brought the
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