Black History
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Sep- 2019 -2 September
Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its…
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2 September
National Congress of Black Women to Honor Shirley Chisholm at Annual Brunch
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "We in the National Congress of Black Women consider it an honor to tell the stories of Black women and to remember them at our events as…
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2 September
Court-Ordered Mediation in Maryland HBCU Case Ends without Agreement
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2013, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court of Maryland, found the state in violation of the 14th Amendment rights of its HBCU students and…
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2 September
COMMENTARY: Commemorating 400 Years of the African Diaspora Experience
THE AFRO — History commonly and most often points to late August in the year 1619 when some “20 and odd Negroes” originating from Angola arrived in the British colony…
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Aug- 2019 -30 August
LeMoyne-Owen College ceremony marks 400-year odyssey of Africans in America
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — It was 400 years ago when the first Africans arrived in Jamestown, Va., marking the beginning of institutionalized slavery. To commemorate this historical moment locally, the Memphis…
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28 August
400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Indeed, “the slave trade began in the 15th century,” said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe in 2007, when he was the acting president of the United Nations General…
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28 August
How to Be an Anti-Racist, according to Ibram X Kendi
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “A combination of memoir and extension of [Kendi’s] towering Stamped from the Beginning... Never wavering... Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture,…
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28 August
NNPA Celebrates the CBCF’s Annual Legislative Conference
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As the CBCF prepares for its 49th ALC, the focus for all involved will be on social, political and economic issues influencing African Americans and all individuals…
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28 August
Do Black Kids Deserve This Treatment in School?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After the incident Pearland ISD Board of Trustees member Mikael Floyd stated, "It's no secret that racism, whether intentional or not, has crept into the code. The…
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28 August
17 Million Voters Purged Nationwide Between 2016 and 2018
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Brennan Center report follows a Center for American Progress analysis that examined how conservative lawmakers are suppressing the votes of people of color, young people, and…
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