Black student Harvey Gantt entered Clemson College in South Carolina, the last s

Nation's streets calmest in days, protests largely peaceful

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests were largely peaceful and the nation’s streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off sometimes violent demonstrations over police brutality and injustice against African

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[Video] Meet Emma Christy Baker: First Black Female Officer on the Indianapolis Police Force

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Job market remains grim even as U.S. reopens | Dallas Weekly

Yet with millions more Americans seeking unemployment aid last week, the U.S. job market remains as bleak as it’s been in

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Morgan v. Virginia (1946)

March 27, 1946, Argued

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 17: "Combahee River Raid"

In Episode 17, Combahee River Raid, we look at the events of June 2, 1863, when Union Colonel James Montgomery led the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery up the Combahee River, to raid Confederate outposts and rice plantations. Harriet Tubman

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2

1863

Meet The Black-Owned Legal Firm Handling The Murder Case of Ahmaud Arbery – Free Press of Jacksonville

Stewart Trial Attorneys based in Atlanta — one of the most respected African American law firms in the country — is now handling the Ahmaud Arbery

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Atlanta Mayor: Trump's Response To Protests 'Like Charlottesville All Over Again'

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump’s response to the nationwide protests sparked by George Floyd’s death, calling it reminiscent of his response to the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in

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Gantt, Harvey Bernard (1943- ) - Birthday

Gantt, architect and politician, was born January 14, 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina to Christopher and Wilhelmenia Gantt.

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Biden's 'Breakfast Club' blunder is a teachable moment for white liberals

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Georgia Attorney General Names New Prosecutor In Ahmaud Arbery Case

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr on Monday tapped a new lead prosecutor in the murder case of Ahmaud Arbery — the fourth since the young black man was killed in February while jogging in Glynn

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Sisters of Charity Foundation of S.C. Awards More Than $2.4 Million in Grants to South Carolina Nonprofits

The Sisters of Charity Foundation have announced Cycle I grant awards to 136 nonprofit organizations serving people across South Carolina totaling

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DeLarge, Robert Carlos (1842-1874) - Birthday

Robert Carlos DeLarge was born a slave in Aiken, South Carolina on March 15, 1842.

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Mar

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1842

Joe Biden endorsed by Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Former Vice President Joe Biden, sided by Dr. Jill Biden delivers remarks at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA on March

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US faces severe economic downturn

The world's biggest economy faces a severe downtown but will not suffer another Great Depression, US Fed chief Jerome Powell said on Sunday, as three hardest-hit countries in Europe reported low death tolls and lockdowns

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Winters, Lawrence (1915–1965) - Birthday

Lawrence Winters was born Lawrence Whisonant on November 12, 1915, in Kings Creek, South Carolina, one of three sons of Eliza Whisonant (née Smith) and Marion Frank Whisonant, a farmer.

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1915

Biden hires Karine Jean-Pierre as senior adviser to engage Black voters

As the general elections draw closer, Joe Biden is continuing to build his campaign team and now political strategist Karine Jean-Pierre has been selected as a senior

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Apple, Google Release Pandemic Apps | Afro

The companies said 22 countries and several U.S. states are already planning to build voluntary phone apps using their

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

30th Anniversary of the Lifetime Original Movie | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Get nostalgic and get hooked on Lifetime as the network looks back on its last three-decades of beloved original

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Death of Robert Smalls

Death of Robert Smalls (75), Reconstruction congressman, in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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Feb

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1915

Foxx, Anthony Renard (1971- )

Anthony Foxx, the seventeenth United States Secretary of Transportation, was born April 30, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised by his mother, Laura Foxx, and grandparents James and Mary Foxx. He graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1989, and four years later received

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Newswire :Shooting death in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery, is defined as a “Modern Day Lynching”

The shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, went viral on social media on May 6, months after his

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Morgan Alum, Former N.J. Mayor, Dies at 90 | Afro

During the decades Thomas H. Cooke Jr. spent as an elected leader in New Jersey, his city, East Orange, fell on hard

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Tropical Storm Bertha forms, hits South Carolina coast

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Bertha made landfall on South Carolina’s coast Wednesday morning shortly after it formed, becoming the second named storm before the official start of this year’s Atlantic hurricane

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Remembering the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

May 17 marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. the Board of

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

States Remove Monuments To Racist Traitors Following Nationwide Protests

As protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, continued this week, some state and local leaders are removing monuments honoring the

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Powell v. Alabama (1932)

October 10, 1932, Argued

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King, Horace (1807-1885) - Birthday

Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in West Georgia, Northern Alabama and northeast Georgia in the period between the 1830s and 1870s.

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Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

March 26, 2003, Argued

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Darius Rucker - Birthday

Rucker was born on May 13, 1966 in Charleston, South Carolina.

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13

1966

Delany, Martin Robinson

Delany, Martin Robinson dəlā´nē [key], 1812–85, American black leader, b. Charles Town, Va. (now in West Virginia). The son of free blacks, he attended a black school in Pittsburgh and studied medicine at Harvard. He emphasized the practical aspects of black problems. Taking up the cause of

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