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Aubrey F. Lowe, Financial AnalystSuffolk, VA born

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Aubrey F. Lowe, Financial Analyst

Suffolk, VA born

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Poindexter, James (1819-1907)
James Poindexter clergyman, abolitionist, politician, and civil rights activist, was born in Richmond Virginia in 1819. He attended school in Richmond until he was about sixteen when he started to apprentice as a barber. In 1837 Poindexter married Adelia Atkinson and the coupled moved to
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Source: Black Past
Feb
7
1907
Frazer, Jendayi E. (1961- )
Ambassador Jendayi E. Frazer is currently on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.  She has been there since 2009 as the university’s Distinguished Public service Professor in the Heinz College School of Public Policy and Management.  Frazer is also the Director of Center for
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Source: Black Past
Missouri officers accused of assaulting black woman, son
Andrew M. Stroth of the Chicago-based Action Injury Law Group said Marvia Gray was especially traumatized by how her son was treated given other high-profile incidents involving white officers and black men, including the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, another St. Louis
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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel
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Georgia Republican Slammed For Posing With White Supremacist-Linked Group
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner was a renowned African-American known for leading the 1831 slave rebellion to free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, after being subjected to slavery himself. He started a revolt among the black slave followers to free their brother on several plantations. They gained more arms and
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Nov
11
1831
Virginia Becomes 1st Southern State To Outlaw Hair Discrimination | Afro
Virginia has officially become the first southern U.S. state to ban hair discrimination based on racial identifiers including hair texture and hair
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
AP FACT CHECK: Faulty Trump claims on virus drug, vote fraud | The Atlanta Voice
So it was this past week when he took very personally a scientific study that should give pause to anyone thinking of following Trump’s lead and ingesting a potentially risky drug for the
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
$3 Trillion HEROES Act promises more COVID-19 relief for consumers and businesses
$3 Trillion HEROES Act promises more COVID-19 relief for consumers and businesses
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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media
Biden says he was too 'cavalier' about black Trump backers
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden declared he “should not have been so cavalier” on Friday when he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump
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Meet The First Black Dean of the Oldest Law School In The U.S.
The Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William Mary based in Williamsburg, Virginia, is home to the oldest law school in the country and a part of the second oldest college and the first university to open in the United
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Source: The Black Chronicle
June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage
June 12, 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be
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PRESS ROOM: The 18th U.S. Surgeon General and American Heart Association Board Member, Dr. Regina Benjamin joins National Newspaper Publishers Coronavirus Pandemic Task Force
At the end of a recent interview on the very popular radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” Joe Biden said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
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OP-ED: Joe Biden Attacks Freethinking Black Americans while President Trump Empowers Them
In 2016, President Trump looked at the conditions and statistics of many predominantly Black cities in America and saw that despite being led by Liberal lawmakers, our communities were faced with high crime, high unemployment, and poor public
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Source: The Orlando Advocate
Anthony A. Williams
Anthony A. Williams is Chief Executive Officer of Federal City Council, an organization which serves as a catalyst for progress in the Nation’s Capital by focusing on major problems and
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Brownlee, Lawrence E., Jr. (1972- )
Larry Everston Brownlee, Jr., one of six children, wasborn on November 24, 1972 in Youngstown, Ohio. His father, a General Motors plant worker who was also choir director atPhillips Chapel Church of God in Christ, commanded his son to perform so oftenthat he later recalled, “I used to
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Nov
24
1972
Memorial Day was founded by Blacks | The Crusader Newspaper Group
None of these claims included the Black narrative, but what was once Union Cemetery is now a sprawling, 60-acre park in predominantly white Charleston, which amid lush gardens, ponds, a gazebo and fountain sits a bronze plaque acknowledging the park as the site of the first Memorial Day and where
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COVID-19 layoffs in US nearly 39 million
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the US has swelled to nearly 39 million, the Government reported yesterday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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$3 Trillion HEROES Act Promises More COVID-19 Relief for Consumers and Businesses
Introduced on May 12 by New York Congresswoman Nita Lowey, the HEROES Act had 11 co-sponsors representing the additional states of Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia and provides a broad assortment of new and renewed assistance targeted to essential workers, first
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
Nation’s Capital Set To Begin A Gradual Reopening On Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Muriel Bowser says the nation’s capital will begin a gradual reopening Friday, even as she warns that it probably will result in will be permitted to seat guests outdoors, barbers and hair salons will open and nonessential businesses will be allowed to offer curbside or
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People ventured out to beaches over the weekend without masks and failed to keep their distance
Crowds packed beaches in Florida, Maryland, Georgia, Virginia and Indiana over the weekend — many venturing out without masks and others failing to keep their distance even as officials have tirelessly highlighted the importance of both in order to prevent another surge of
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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information
Remembering The Legacy Of Brown v. Board Of Education
(Trice Edney Wire) – Sunday, May 17, marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of
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Dudley, Edward Richard (1911-2005) - Birthday
Dudley was born on March 11, 1911 in South Boston, Virginia to Edward Richard and Nellie (Johnson) Dudley.
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Source: Black Past
Mar
11
1911
Al Davis
Al Davis , byname of Allen Davis (born July 4, 1929, Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 8, 2011, Oakland, California), American gridiron football coach and executive who, as commissioner of the American Football League (AFL), was a key actor in the merger of the AFL with the National
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Oct
8
2011
Walker, Howard Kent (1935- )
Howard Kent Walker is a military veteran, diplomat, and educator who was born on December 3, 1935 in Newport News, Virginia. His father was a high school chemistry and mathematics teacher and his mother a homemaker. Upon graduation from high school Walker enrolled at the University of Michigan in
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Source: Black Past
Dec
3
1935
Alexander, Archer (ca. 1810-1879)
Archer Alexander was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation around the year 1810.  His likeness, in face and figure, immortalizes all American slaves on a monument to emancipation that stands in Lincoln Park in Washington, D. C. The bronze monument Emancipation, also known as the Freedmens
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Eure Sr., Dexter Dillard (1924-2015)
Dexter Dillard Eure Sr., pioneering black newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe, was born in Suffolk, Virginia, an only child to Luke Eure and Sarah Sharpe. His father left the family when he was an infant and his mother died when he was 12. Eure spent the rest of his young life going back and
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Jul
2
2015
Scars of Slavery: 13 Year Old’s Horrifying Consequences For Upsetting Her Mistress
Comments Caption, “Marks of punishment inflicted upon a colored servant in Richmond, VA”; shows the back of woman with burn
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Vanderbilt's Lee becomes SEC's 1st woman athletic director
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt has removed the interim title, making Candice Storey Lee the first woman to become an athletic director in the Southeastern
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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: One Tennessee Community's Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom
When I was in the seventh grade, I spotted a photograph of four former slaves in my social studies textbook.  Although the photograph was entitled Black Tennesseans, I noticed a strong family resemblance between them and my family members. When my grandmother told me that two of them were actually
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'Dean' of Black Lawyers
Henry E. Quarles, Sr., born in Boston in 1906, and a graduate of Suffolk Law School in 1928, is considered 'The Dean' of Black lawyers in Boston. He holds the distinction of having the longest legal career - 61 years of practice as an attorney - in Boston. He received an Honorary Doctor of Law from
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

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