Black History
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Sep- 2019 -2 September#NNPA BlackPress
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…
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Aug- 2019 -30 August#NNPA BlackPress
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…
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27 August#NNPA BlackPress
Miami aviation association to honor Tuskegee Airman
FLORDIA COURIER — A Tuskegee Airman and other aviation luminaries will be honored at the Greater Miami Aviation Association’s 92th…
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27 August#NNPA BlackPress
When South Africans Declared ‘Liberation’ at Two Whites-Only Beaches
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — South Africa witnessed the beginning of the end of Whites-only beaches thirty years ago this week after…
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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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