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Study Reveals Off-Duty Police Kill Black Men at Unacceptably High Rates - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent A recent study in Health Services Research found that off-duty police officers commit homicides more often than previously thought, and media coverage of […]

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The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

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19

1883

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The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem by Lois Alexander to highlight the achievements and contributions of African Americans to fashion.

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Oct

21

1979

Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopa

Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the U.S. , dies.

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13

1818

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Feb

12

1909

Roy deCarava, the first African American photographer to be awarded aGuggenhei

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9

1919

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Nov

24

1880

Pan-African Congress Meeting

Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met a Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen from the United States and fourteen from Africa form sixteen countries and colonies. Blaise Diagne of Senegal was elected president and Du Bois was named secretary.

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Feb

19

1919

Miss. Plan disenfranchises Blacks

African-Americans are

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1

1890

Martin R. Delany

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20

1852

William H. Lewis

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Mar

26

1910

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

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1983

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22

1942

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept African Americans as me

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14

1958

Asa Philip Randolph issued a call for 100,000

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May

1

1941

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3

1944

Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born

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22

1912

Muhammad Ali, (born Cassius Clay) stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the US Army during the Vietnam War(Clay v- United States). He is asked How can you be a pacifist opposed to the idea of

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28

1970

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1940

Charles Mahoney, first Black Americandelegate to the UN, dies

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29

1966

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Jul

6

1971

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Nov

12

1900

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May

12

1958

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Nov

26

1911

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23

1821

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27

1872

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1961

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19

1925

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