Wilton Gregory: Pope Francis names first African-American cardinal

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Wilton Gregory: Pope Francis names first African-American cardinal

Wilton Gregory, Washington DC's archbishop, is among 13 new cardinals to be nominated.

Source: BBC

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Microwave Associates

Microwave Associates, Inc. (now called M/A-COM) was founded in 1950 in Boston by two African-American engineers, Louis W. Roberts and Richard M. Walker, and Vess Chigas (a Greek American). In 1956 the company offered public stock and many of Boston's African-Americans invested. Microwave Associates

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Fax, Elton (1909-1993) - Birthday

Elton Clay Fax, a prolific African-American cartoonist, author, and illustrator, was born on October 9, 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Bay State Medical Association

African-American doctors, dentists, and pharmacists organized the Bay State Medical Association in 1930 to further their professional development and to provide charitable services to their community. The membership included more than 50 medical practitioners and was in existence until 1942.

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Leading City Official

Clarence 'Jeep' Jones was the first African-American to serve as a Deputy Mayor of Boston in 1976, where he served until 1981 under Mayor Kevin H. White. In 1989 Jones was appointed by Mayor Raymond L. Flynn as Chairman of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, another first for an African-American.

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TV Executive First

When Donna Latson Gittens was named vice president of community programming for WCVB-TV in 1983, she became the first African-American in the history of local television to assume this executive position and one of a relatively few in the nation.

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Biography

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where she has been on the faculty since

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Early Cambridge City Councilors

Four African-Americans served on the Cambridge City Council in the 1800s: J. Milton Clark, 1873; William Stevenson, 1882-83; W. C. Lane, 1883-84; Louis E. Baldwin, 1891-95.

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The controversial book didn't sell well, with Morrison stating in a 1994 afterword that the reception to the work was parallel to how her main character was treated by the

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Celia Cruz | Biography & History

Celia Cruz was one of Latin music's most respected

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Museum of Afro-American History

The Museum of Afro-American History was established in Boston in 1964. Its leading founders were Dean Howard Thurman of Boston University and his wife Sue Bailey Thurman. The Museum was established 'to advance knowledge, through historic examination,' about the African-American presence in Boston

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Veteran School Committeman

In 1977 John O'Bryant was elected to Boston School Committee, becoming the first African-American elected to serve on the Committee in the 20th century. In 1989 he was elected to his seventh two-year term, and in 1991 he became president of the body for the second time.

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Early African-American Police Officers

The first two African-Americans to serve as police officers in the Boston Police Department were Charles Montier and Joshua McClain, who were appointed on October 15, 1919. Their appointments were the result of vacancies during the Boston Police strike of 1919. Following these two officers, 33

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The Culture of Afro-Latinos

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African-Americans first served as jurors in Massachusetts in 1860.

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Nicholas Payton - Wikipedia

After touring with Marcus Roberts and Elvin Jones in the early '90s, Payton signed a contract with Verve Records; his first album, From This Moment, appeared in

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5 Men Who Inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. to be a Leader - Birthday

Thurman, considered one of the most influential African-American theologians of the 20th Century, was born on November 18, 1900, in Daytona Beach, Fl.

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Distinguished Athletes

Matthew Bullock, a graduate of Everett High, and John Shelburne, a Boston English graduate, both became All-American football players at Dartmouth College in the early 20th century. Bullock later returned to coach at Everett High, becoming the first African-American to serve as a head coach of

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Black press hit hard by COVID-19 but we will not shut down!

An estimated 1,800 newspapers closed between 2004 and 2018 after the number of people buying print editions dropped, and now during the pandemic, it appears most small publications – especially minority-based ones – will be phased out

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Temperance Society

In the early 1830s Jane Putnam and Susan Paul formed a temperance society. In 1833 the group was responsible for 114 African-Americans taking the 'cold water pledge' denouncing liquor. Two years later in 1835 the New England Temperance Society of People of Color was formed.

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Pioneering Teacher of Reading

Wilhelmina Crosson, one of the first African-American teachers in the Boston Public Schools (1923-1949), started her career at the Hancock School in the North End. Working in the Italian-American community with first-generation Italian children, she instituted the first remedial reading program in

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Library Trustee

Appointed to the position in 1984 and reappointed in 1990, BerthÃ© M. Gaines is the first African-American woman to serve as a trustee of the Boston Public Library and only the fourth woman to serve in the history of the Library, which was established in 1848. Her appointment followed a time of

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Black Population in 1970

In 1970, 51 percent of Boston's African-Americans had been born outside of Massachusetts and had migrated to the state, and most of the newcomers (29 percent of the entire Black population) were of southern origin.

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Inez E. Dickens - New York State Assembly

Moreover, for over 30 years, beginning as a student activist at the sides of her father and mentor, the late Harlem businessman and New York State Assemblyman Lloyd E. Dickens, and her uncle, the late Assemblyman and state Supreme Court Justice Thomas K. Dickens, Inez has taken an active role in

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Black Bostonians in 1800

By 1800 some 1,100 Black Bostonians made up one of the largest free African-American communities in North America.

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First Graduate, New England Conservatory of Music

Rachel M. Washington was the first African-American to graduate from the New England Conservatory of Music in the year 1876. She served as organist and choir director at Twelfth Baptist Church in the latter half of the 19th century and was a leading music teacher in Boston's Black community.

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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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Refused to Fight Against the U.S.

Richard Seavers, a Black Boston seaman who entered the British navy prior to the outbreak of the War of 1812, refused to fight against the United States and was therefore sentenced to England's Dartmoor Prison.

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Female Intelligence Society

The African-American Female Intelligence Society was established in 1832 as both a literary and a mutual-aid group. The Society sponsored lectures 'to become a moral force in the community' and offered health insurance for its members.

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Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. - History

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male

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Early Boston City Councilors

The 19th-century African-American members of the Boston City Council were: George L. Ruffin 1876-77 James W. Pope, 1881 William O. Armstrong, 1885-86 Andrew B. Leattimore, 1887-88 Charles E. Harris, 1889-90 Nelson Gaskins, 1891 Walden Banks, 1892-93 Stanley Ruffin, 1894-95 J. Henderson

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