2 Chainz, 6lack & Quality Control Team Up To Combat COVID-19 In Atlanta

Ice T

Tracy Marrow, better known as Ice T is mostly celebrated for his rap songs concerning street life & violence. He has been an influential figure for the gangster rap genre. Highly controversial songs such as Cop Killer brought much fame to Ice T. He also pursued a career in acting, his most

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Source: Black History Resources

Feb

16

1958

Gospel music

Gospel (genre) redirects here. For the literary genre, see

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Johnson, Kevin Maurice (1966- )

Kevin Johnson, Mayor of Sacramento, California, was born in Californias capital city in 1966. He graduated from Sacramento High School, where he led the state in basketball scoring during his senior year, with a point average of 32.5 points. Johnson then played college basketball at the University

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Source: Black Past

Aug

8

2000

Demonstrators Arrested

Home of Z. Alexander Looby, counsel for 153 students arrested in sit-in demonstrations, destroyed by dynamite bomb. More than eighty-three demonstrators indicted in Atlanta, Georgia, on charges stemming from the sit-in demonstrations at Atlanta restaurants. Two thousand students marched on the

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

19

1960

Hank Aaron

Hank Aaron , byname of Henry Louis Aaron (born February 5, 1934, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.), American professional baseball player who, during 23 seasons in the major leagues (1954–76), surpassed batting records set by some of the greatest hitters in the game, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Stan

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Source: Brittanica

(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”

Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial

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Source: Black Past

Heroes of the Pandemic.

These are workers who John Logan, labor historian at San Francisco State University, says are in “essential jobs done by disposable

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Source: ThyBlackMan

The King Reigns: 2K Sports Announces LeBron James as NBA® 2K14 Cover Athlete

2K Sports announced that 2013 NBA MVP, LeBron James, will make his video game cover debut on NBA® 2K14, the next installment of the top-selling and top-rated NBA video game simulation franchise*. As one of the greatest athletes of this generation, James will lead 2K Sports’ groundbreaking NBA 2K

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Jackson, Rev. Mance (1931-2007)

Open housing was one of the most prominent goals of the Seattle, Washington civil rights movement in the 1960s. Up to the early 1960s African Americans in Seattle were almost completely restricted to housing in the Central District of the city. Housing restrictions were not based on laws but were

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Source: Black Past

Oct

20

1963

Washington, Booker Taliaferro

Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856–1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. Washington was born into slavery his mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man whom he never knew. After the Civil War, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, W.Va., and

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Source: Black History Resources

Protesters Chase Fox News Reporter From White House Demonstrations

NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News reporter was pummeled and chased by protesters who had gathered outside the White House early Saturday as part of nationwide unrest following the death of George

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

W.E.B. DuBois and the Making of the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-1963

In their introduction to Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, co-editors Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah describe W.E.B. DuBois’s half century campaign to publish an encyclopedia that would encompass the African diaspora. That introduction appears

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Source: Black Past

(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”

In July 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered a major speech at the White House in defense of Affirmative Action programs across the nation at a time when many critics were calling for their repeal. He argued that such programs were still needed in a talk he officially titled, The Job of Ending

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Source: Black Past

States accused of fudging or bungling COVID-19 testing data

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As large parts of the U.S. ease their lockdowns against the coronavirus, public health officials in some states are being accused of bungling infection statistics or even deliberately using a little sleight of hand to make the some of the data look better than they

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Ludacris

Ludacris is an American rapper, actor and entrepreneur who first achieved fame as a “Dirty South” rapper, before gaining mainstream success. He was born Christopher Brian Bridges on September 11, 1977 in Champaign, Illinois. He began rapping as a child and wrote his first rap song at

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Source: Black History Resources

Sep

11

1977

Los Angeles City Mayor Garcetti Announces 'All In for L.A.' County-Wide Campaign Encourages to Remain Resilient in the Response to COVID-19.

Los Angeles City Mayor Garcetti Announces ‘All In for L.A.’ County-Wide Campaign Encourages to Remain Resilient in the Response to

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Ghana: Don't Politicise COVID-19 Combat--MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayawaso Central Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Henry Quartey, has cautioned against politicisation of governments effort in addressing threats posed by the coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Congress needs to show black businesses the money

In several informal polls on my Facebook pages I asked the same question: “Do you know of any black owned business that got a COVID-19 stimulus SBA Payroll Protection Program

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Source: Homepage -

'The Beauty Just Jumps Out': Evelyn Lozada's Beauty Wows Fans In Her Flawless Selfie

Fans of reality TV personality Evelyn Lozada can’t seem to get enough of her curly tresses and dazzling good looks as they swoon over her every move on

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Herndon, Norris Bumstead (1897–1977) - Birthday

Herndon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 15, 1897, the only child of Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil, a graduate and teacher at Atlanta University, and Alonzo Herndon.

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Source: Black Past

Jul

15

1897

Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate In 2020.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt

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William “Bill” Lamar, Jr.

William “Bill” Lamar, Jr. served as Chief Marketing Officer, McDonald’s USA. In this role, Lamar was responsible for the marketing, market research, advertising and new product development in the U.S. and its nearly 14,000

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'There’s a Lil Boy on the Way?': Dennis McKinley Leaves Fans Shook After He Calls Porsha Williams ‘DJ's’ Mama

Porsha Williams, the mother to 1-year-old Pilar Jhena’ McKinley, hasn’t mentioned anything about being pregnant

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Privacy Bill: Kobe Bryant’s Death Inspired Moves Forward

By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Grocery store prices add to ills of burdened minority communities

Grocery store prices continue to rise at a rate not seen in four decades in the metro Atlanta, and for economically challenged Atlantans already paying higher prices for retail food items, keeping food on the table is increasingly more

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Bill Cosby

Actor / Comedian

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Dec

29

2015

THE SWORD OF THE BLACK PRESS –

The Gantt Report told you for decades that no Democratic candidate can win a rat race, a sack race or a political race without strong Black voter

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Source: Florida Courier

The 1928 Bunion Derby: America’s Brush with Integrated Sports

In the following account sports historian Charles Kastner describes the Bunion Derby, the 1928 cross country footrace that captured the nation’s attention in the spring of 1928 and the remarkable group of black runners who participated in that event. For a detailed discussion of the race, see

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Source: Black Past

May

26

1928

Common’s Nonprofit Launches Criminal Justice Reform Campaign Amid COVID-19

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been growing concern surrounding the spread of the virus within correctional

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Source: NewsOne

A Real One: J. Cole Joins Protesters In His Hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina

Black people across the country have taken to the streets fed up at the recent string of Black lives like Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the George Floyd being erased at the hands of

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