Black History
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Aug- 2019 -22 August#NNPA BlackPress
E.E. Ward Moving & Storage Company: A True Family Business
OAKLAND POST — Entrepreneurial journeys may vary, but all who have started businesses have at least one thing in common:…
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16 AugustBlack History
Organization Sparks ‘Year of Return’
THE AFRO — With 2019 marking the 400 year anniversary of the first recorded slave ships docking on Western Shores,…
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3 AugustBlack History
Women’s Suffrage Forged by Founding Sisters: Happy Birthday to Ida B.
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — So proclaimed Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who fearlessly shined a light with words on the abominable dark days…
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2 AugustBlack History
Women’s Hall of Fame to Honor Angela Davis
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Political activist and educator Angela Davis is being honored this fall by the National Women’s Hall of…
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Jul- 2019 -30 JulyBlack History
A Fully Illustrated Edition of James’s Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” with Photography by Steve Schapiro
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — In 1963, two of James Baldwin’s most influential essays were fused to form a bestselling book…
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30 JulyBlack History
COMMENTARY: Embracing the Courageous Four; Radically Reconceiving and Reconstructing America
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — In spite of the forked-tongue talk, doublespeak and patently racist ranting of the pretending President Trump…
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30 JulyBirmingham Times
BCRI Youth Tour Alabama African American Heritage Sites
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Twenty students in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s (BCRI) Legacy Youth Leadership Program left Tuesday, July 16…
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23 JulyBlack History
Verniecia Green-Jordan Builds Family/Perris Legacy
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — From the far reaches of the antebellum south where Afro-Appalachian descendants fought through slavery, reconstruction and…
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20 JulyBlack History
369th Experience Band Ties HBCU Musicians to WWI Black History
VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — In 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, two years after the U.S. entered the fight…
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18 JulyBlack History
Thomas L. Jennings, First African American to Receive a Patent
OAKLAND POST — Patents are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent…
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