Erica Campbell Says She Meant No Harm By Her Instagram Post About Monogamy, Marriage: 'I Don't Think You Should Be Random with It'

(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”

Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University. Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School. After graduation he practiced in Boston. By the 1880s Grimke

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‘It’s sickening’: Indiana Republican faces furious backlash over racist Facebook post about Black children

On Tuesday, The Indianapolis Star reported that GOP state Rep. Jim Lucas is under fire for a racist depiction of Black children in a Facebook

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Nehanda was never hanged, but executed in jail: Senator

SENATOR representing people with disabilities Watson Khupe yesterday claimed that the country’s spirit medium Ambuya Nehanda was never hanged on a tree contrary to popular beliefs, but was executed in

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‘The Lovebirds’ Is Exactly What It Looks Like

The film follows Leilani and Jibran, a New Orleans-based couple who, four years into an initially sweet romance, are facing some roadblocks in their

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Do it now!

The suggestion by Quality Incorporations VII Ltd Director Krishna Vaswani is that the Government starts reopening the economy in parishes where there are few cases of the novel

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Teen arrested in connection with eight year-old's killing; two others accosted for separate incidents

A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the May 6 shooting of eight-year-old Toya Brown in West

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Barack And Michelle Obama To Deliver Virtual Graduation Speeches To Class Of 2020

Barack and Michelle Obama will deliver a number of virtual commencement addresses to the class of 2020, as schools have adjusted, postponed or canceled their in-person graduation ceremonies due to the coronavirus

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Technology will help Faith Memorial host vacation bible school

ST. PETERSBURG — Faith Memorial Missionary Baptist Church, under the leadership of Pastor Robert A. Vinson, Jr., won’t let COVID-19 and social distancing stop them from hosting their annual vacation bible

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How Pittsburgh’s Black business owners are coping amid the pandemic

Talking to Black business owners in Pittsburgh in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, you hear a lot of the same things: They’ve applied for loans and have heard nothing

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PRESS ROOM: U.S. Bank Offers Financial Support and Demonstrates Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March

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Opposition demands protocol for reopening economy

The Opposition has blasted the government for what it calls the ongoing failure to establish and make public the protocol to guide the re-opening of the economy, warning that this could lead to

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The captivating story of Djoser, the Egyptian king behind the first pyramid

Known for commissioning other tombs, temples, and monuments, it is during the reign of Djoser that Egypt witnessed great technological innovation in the use of stone architecture, according to

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Ida B. Wells

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National

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Mitchell Town recreational park in Clarendon gets facelift

Residents of Mitchell Town in Clarendon joined hands on Labour Day to give a facelift to the rural community’s more than five-decades-old recreational

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'Lady, I’m Not like These Other Folk': Gabrielle Union's 'Shady Baby' Pays Her No Mind While Attempting the Fruit Snack Challenge

Actress Gabrielle Union is back at with her antics involving daughter Kaavia James Wade and the latest social media craze: the fruit snack

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week | The Atlanta Voice

In reality, the House bill would give $100 billion to local organizations, such as community health centers or nonprofits, to help with testing and contact tracing by funding door-to-door outreach, the purchase of testing supplies and the hiring and training of people to run mobile testing

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Houston Police Shooting Kills Gospel Singer

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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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Carl Crawford Addresses Drowning Victims At His Home, Prays For Families

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Several black celebrities are recovering from virus

As the global pandemic continues to wreck havoc on people throughout the world, a number of celebrities have broken their silence to report that they have tested positive for the

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Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19 | Afro

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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Alicia Keys Shares Emotional Letter She Wrote to Her Absent Father at Age 13

At 13 years old, Alicia Keys already had a knack for expressing her feelings with words, which was displayed in a letter that she wrote to her father, Craig Cook, back

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'So Proud': Fans Applaud Kandi Burruss for Making History as the First Female Winner of 'The Masked Singer'

Kandi Burruss recently made history as the first female artist to win “The Masked Singer” on Wednesday, May

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Hanover man accused of abducting, robbing and raping woman charged

A Hanover man accused of abducting, robbing and raping a woman has been charged by the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Black Real Estate Mogul Raising Funds For Healthcare Worker | Afro

Fort Myers, FL (BlackNews.com) — Tamairo Moutry, a successful real estate broker and the first Black woman to own four real estate companies in four different states, has launched two fundraisers (one on Facebook and one on GoFundMe) to help raise funds for those who are taking the lead in fighting

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Grant Williams Is Hosting a Virtual Mentoring Program for Underserved Teens on Zoom

Williams wanted to provide some personal assistance to others during COVID-19 while in his hometown of Charlotte, North

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Young Buck Filing For Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Could Be A Shot At 50 Cent

When you think of the iconic NY-based group, you immediately think of its Queens figureheads 50 Cent and Lloyd

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James Weldon Johnson

Trained in music and other subjects by his mother, a schoolteacher, Johnson graduated from Atlanta University with A.B. (1894) and M.A. (1904) degrees and later studied at Columbia University. For several years he was principal of the black high school in Jacksonville, Fla. He read law at the same

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Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah , (born 1945, Baidoa, Italian Somaliland [now in Somalia]), Somali writer whose rich imagination and refreshing and often fortuitous use of his adopted language made him the most significant Somali writer in any European

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Adebayor hunted for alleged incitment of violence in Sierra Leone

How low a depth of despair and despondency the SLPP/APC rivalry has sunk is clearly illustrated by a video that has gone viral on Facebook, depicting two Sierra Leoneans, apparently on a manhunt in the streets of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, for the real or fictitious

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