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Sep- 2019 -2 September
IN MEMORIAM: Baxter Leach, a Soldier for Labor
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mr. Leach and fellow sanitation workers rose up and in unison shouted to the world, “I AM A MAN.” They marched against the powers that be, earning…
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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
Tennis Center gets council OK; priority question raised
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — After some controversy, Memphis City Council members approved a resolution appropriating $3 million of the $19 million needed for the expansion of the Leftwich Tennis Center at…
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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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2 September
Summer Bee winners
THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER — Annually, the Friends of James Weldon Johnson Branch Library, Inc. sponsor Summer Bees in the month of July, and this year was no exception. Participants in…
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2 September
HBCU College Fair expands
THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER — Launched in 2017 by the Suncoast Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. and Shorecrest Preparatory School, the Tampa Bay area’s only HBCU College Fair has…
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1 September
Knock Knock Angels Transforms Lives Via Makeovers
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — Vicki Lobo is up to her ears in furniture with donations that keep pouring in. It’s far more than she imagined she would receive, and that’s…
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1 September
An Effort to Tighten Ethics Laws
THE AFRO — The fallout from the scandal that engulfed former Mayor Catherine Pugh over the sale of books to various institutions and contractors continued, as the Baltimore City Council passed…
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