Cops probing collision at Sheriff and David Sts junction

Dept. of Commerce Names David Byrd New National Director of Minority Business Development Agency

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has announced that David J. Byrd has been appointed the new National Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

‘My Daddy Changed the World’ | Afro

I believe that Floyd, in his death, became that catalyst, the “David” that I had prayed for, the one who would defeat the giant “Goliath,” the one who would change our history and perhaps change our

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Setting Aside Race: Selected Books by Black Authors in Which Blackness is Not the Predominant Theme

Compiled by Robert Fikes, Jr., Librarian

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Source: Black Past

COMMENTARY: It Has Never Been Like This in America Before

The millionaire Republicans thinks that many citizens in America are looking for a hand out, and they are

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Moms 4 Housing Organizer Carroll Fife Is Redefining What Wealth Distribution Looks Like for Black People Globally

Oakland-based organizer and Regional Director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment for San Francisco and Oakland, Carroll Fife, has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for the rights of marginalized

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

LA city council approves plan to replace cops with unarmed responders

(Photo by David McNew/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Bailey, Thurl Lee (1961– )

Thurl Lee Bailey is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves. Bailey has also beena broadcast analyst for the Utah Jazz and the University of Utah and aninspirational

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Source: Black Past

Dec

31

1995

Black Men: Teach Your Sons About Oluwatoyin Salau And The Ways We Harm Black Women

Toyin was a 19-year-old Black woman activist in Florida who had become well-known and respected for a video in which she’s pleading for justice for Black trans man Tony McDaniel, who had been killed by police a few days

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Source: NewsOne

Denver Single Family House (SFH) Market Report and Expert Review - May 2020

Insight from experts, agents

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Eka, David W. (1945– )

David William Eka, engineer, elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), first president of the Aba Nigeria stake, was born in Etinan, Nigeria, on May 20, 1945. His father, William Udo, was a carpenter, and his mother, Lucy Eduok Inyang Eka, was a homemaker. William and Lucy had

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Source: Black Past

Sep

8

1979

Peck, David Jones (c. 1826-1855)

David Jones Peck was the first black man to graduate from an American medical school. He was born to John C. and Sarah Peck in Carlisle, Pennsylvania around 1826. John Peck was a prominent abolitionist and minister who founded the local African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Carlisle. Peck was

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Source: Black Past

Jul

24

1849

How A Black Repairman's Conversation With His White Client Touched The Nation

How A Black Repairman's Conversation With His White Client Touched The Nation Audio will be available later today. South Carolina repairman Ernest Skelton talked to Caroline Brock about racism at an appointment. NPR's David Greene spoke with Skelton, who is Black, and Brock, who is white.

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Source: Stories About Black History

Louis Armstrong

Satchmo

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Rufus King seniors earn full rides to Notre Dame, including QuestBridge match

Congratulations to Rufus King International School seniors Jordan Anderson, who will attend the University of Notre Dame as a Quest- Bridge scholar, and David Akinsanya, also heading for Notre Dame on a full-ride

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige , byname of Leroy Robert Paige (born July 7, 1906?, Mobile, Ala., U.S.—died June 8, 1982, Kansas City, Mo.), American professional baseball pitcher whose prowess became legendary during his many years in the Negro leagues; he finally was allowed to enter the major leagues in 1948

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Source: Brittanica

Britain’s culture war and the Caribbean

In events eerily reminiscent of other turning points in history from South Africa to Eastern Europe, a group of protestors pulled down a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth century slaver and city benefactor, and threw him into the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Any decision by Court of Appeal in David case is appealable to the CCJ as of right

There appears to be a mistaken view that any decision by the Court of Appeal in the case brought by Eslyn David seeking to stop the declaration of the results of the March 2 elections is

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Jackson, Jessie Louis, Sr. (1941- )

Long before he became a minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, Jesse Louis Jackson impressed his family and close friends as a person destined for greatness. Born

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Source: Black Past

Oct

8

1941

Top cop, Zesa employees in court for power cables theft

A SENIOR Zimbabwe Republic Police officer and two Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employees were arraigned before the Karoi Magistrates’ Court together with four accomplices facing two counts of vandalism of power

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

New twist to ongoing March 2 election saga in Guyana | New York Carib News

New twist to ongoing March 2 election saga in Guyana

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Source: The New York Carib News

Paul Cuffee

Not to be confused with the Reverend Paul Cuffee (1754-1812), who is honored on the liturgical Calendar of the Episcopal Church

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Source: ThoughtCo

Sep

7

1817

‘Member Of The KKK’ Who Shot Daughter’s Black Boyfriend Is Freed On $500 Bail

A reported member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) shot his daughter’s Black boyfriend multiple times during what he described without proof as an instance of self-defense last month in Virginia

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Source: NewsOne

EXCLUSIVE: Meet Power 100 TRAILBLAZER Honoree Vicki Chancellor •

Vicki Chancellor utilized 30 years of experience helping corporations identify and increase value through marketing and sales innovation, stepped out of the corporate structure and became her own

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Source: https://www.ebony.com

2 Florida officials fired for erasing Black faces from firefighter murals

via screenshot

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Source: theGrio

When the clueless and corrupt pray

A FEW days back President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for a day of prayer and

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Toronto Cop Convicted After Viciously Beating Black Man Who Lost An Eye – The Black Chronicle

A Toronto police officer, who was arrested several years ago for beating a young Black man who ended up losing his eye, has been found guilty of assault, according to The Associated

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Death Toll Grows In National Protests

They are among the people who have been killed as protests roiled American cities in the week since 46-year-old George Floyd died when a white officer jammed his knee into the back of the black

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Source: Black America Web

(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”

On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Comedian, actor, and philanthropist Bill Cosby was asked to deliver the main address. Cosby

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Source: Black Past

May

17

2004

It is hard to argue PNC rigging is all history when history is repeating itself at this very moment.

The reports of the 303 Committee and a memorandum by Thomas H. Karamessines, Deputy CIA Director entitled “Plans of Guyana Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC), to Rig the Elections Scheduled for Late 1968 or Early 1969” might be a good starting point for

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Covid-19: Kenya sets new record in daily cases

Kenya has recorded its highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in a 24-hour period since the first case was reported in

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Source: The East African

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