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Ernest Green graduated from Little Rock's Central

  • May 27, 1958
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Ernest Green graduated from Little Rock's Central High School with six hundred white classmates.

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Harris, Everette “E” Lynn (1955-2009)
New York Times bestselling author Everette “E” Lynn Harris was born June 20, 1955, in Flint, Michigan. Openly homosexual, Harris was best known for his depictions of gay African American men who were concealing or “closeting” their sexuality. Although he did not participate
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Source: Black Past
Jul
23
2009
When the Protesting Ends – Do You Just Go Home?
There is a ground swell in America, and for 13 days there has been multiracial protests and demonstrations based on the killing of George Floyd by four Minnesota
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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward
Brazilian miner dies after crushed by rock in Region 7 mine - Stabroek News
A Brazilian miner died on Tuesday after a 200-pound-plus rock crushed him to death while he was working at Puruni Mines in Region Seven. The article Brazilian miner dies after crushed by rock in Region 7 mine appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Black school
Black schools originated under legal segregation in the southern United States after the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, in southern states public policy to keep races separated and maintain white supremacy. In the United States white opposition to African-American success resulted in
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Girma, Haben (1988- )
Haben Girma, both blind and deaf, is a disability rights advocate and attorney who became the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School in Massachusetts when she graduated with a Juris Doctor degree (JD) in
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Jul
29
1988
(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "To Fulfill These Rights"
On June 4, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson gave the Commencement Address at Howard University in Washington, D.C.  He used the occasion to remind his audience and the nation of the long history of racial discrimination and urged the American people to end racial discrimination as the most
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Jun
4
1965
Will Smith says Philadelphia police called him the N-word on more than 10 occasions
Two-time Academy Award-nominated actor, Will Smith, opened up to Angela Rye about his experiences with police growing up in Philadelphia.... View Article The post Will Smith says Philadelphia police called him the N-word on more than 10 occasions appeared first on TheGrio.
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Florence Price, composer born - Death
Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florence's mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.
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Jun
3
1953
Johnson, Charles V. (1928- )
Charles Vernon Johnson was an influential member of the Seattle African American community from the moment he moved out west in 1954 to attend law school at the University of Washington.  Johnson, originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, was one of a few black graduate students at the University of
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COGIC PRE-SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION | Florida Sentinel Bulletin
COGIC PRE-SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION                                        The College Hill Church of God in Christ Pre-School held its graduation recently for the pre-schoolers and kindergarten students. The graduation was held at the school located in the College Hill Conference
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Will Smith
Will Smith (born Willard Carroll Smith, Jr.) is a Hollywood actor, producer and musician. He was born and raised in Philadelphia in a Baptist household. His father owned a refrigeration company and his mother was a Philadelphia school board administrator. He attended Overbrook High School where his
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Dwayne Johnson Slams Trump In Powerful Speech: Our Country Is Crippled
He posted his remarks to Instagram.
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a 1952 book by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and intellectual from Martinique. The book is written in the style of auto-theory, in which Fanon shares his own experiences in addition to presenting a historical critique of the effects of
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Todd Corley
Todd Corley is Senior-Vice President & Global Chief Diversity Officer for Abercrombie & Fitch. In his role, Corley reports directly into the Chairman & CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch. During his tenure, he has worked collaboratively across business units to position A&F as one the most
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School Enrollment in Apartheid South Africa
It is well known that one of the fundamental differences between the experiences of Whites and Blacks in Apartheid era South Africa was education. Whilst the battle against enforced education in Afrikaans was eventually won, the Apartheid governments Bantu education policy meant that Black children
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Langston University (1898-- )
In March 1897 the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature created a land grant college to train African American teachers, calling it the Colored Agricultural and Normal University.  Classes opened in the fall of 1898 in a church in the town of Langston.  Langston had been founded in 1890 as part of an
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African American History and Women Timeline 1700-1799
[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1700-1799 New York passed a law prohibiting public gatherings by three or more enslaved Africans, prohibiting testimony in court by enslaved Africans against white colonists, and prohibiting trade with enslaved Africans. Virginia Slave Codes of 1
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Alexander, Archie Alphonso (1888-1958)
African American engineer, architect, and mathematician Archie Alphonso Alexander was born on May 14, 1888 in Ottumwa, Iowa, the oldest of Price Alexander’s and Mary Hamilton Alexander’s nine children.  In order to help his educational opportunities, when he was 11 years old Alexander’s family
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'We trust the teachers with our children's lives' - East London parent | News24
No longer having to juggle between parenting a 12-year-old child who is home alone and a full-time job has come as a welcome relief for medical technologist Asanda Tyokolo.
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Canadian charity builds St Mary school
Canadian charity Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) is looking to finish its latest ‘voluntourism’ project – a school gifted to residents of St Mary by late parishioner Cislyn Sinclair Cupidore and her husband, Rupert Cupidore. The group has...
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Susan L. Johnson
Ms. Johnson works to ensure that Pitney Bowes has the leadership succession pools and diversity strategies required to help the company achieve it’s business
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McDaniel, Hattie (1895-1952)
Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first black Oscar winner.  She won the award on February 29, 1940, for Best Supporting Actress for her role as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind. McDaniels career began three decades earlier.  She gave her first public performances as a grade school
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Feb
29
1940
Florence Price, composer born
Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florences mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.She had her first recital by the age of four and had composed and published her first musical
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Apr
9
1888
Augusta Savage - Birthday
Augusta Savage , original name Augusta Christine Fells (born February 29, 1892, Green Cove Springs, Florida, U.
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Feb
29
1892
Joyful Juneteenth Marchers Brave D.C Rain As America Enters A Civil Rights Summer | Afro
And here they were on Juneteenth, blocks from America’s epicenter of
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MEC disgusted by racist graffiti at Limpopo school, matrics refuse to go to class | News24
Limpopo Education MEC Polly Boshielo has "reacted with disgust to reports of a racist incident" at Hoërskool Ben Viljoen in Groblersdal.
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Suspect arrested for rape of Grade 7 pupil who returned home for mask
A 17-year-old suspect was arrested for the alleged rape of a pupil on Tuesday 7 July by the Donnybrook South African Police Service.
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Kathy Sledge To Release New Single "Keep It Movin'" On December 1
KATHY SLEDGE will release her much anticipated new single titled KEEP IT MOVIN’ on iTunes and all digital platforms on December 1. The song was first released as an Aristofreeks feat. Kathy Sledge EDM single on Pacific Electronic Music last Fall, hitting #2 on the Billboard Club chart. The
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Lisa A. Williams-Fauntroy
Ms. Williams-Fauntroy manages and handles business and legal affairs matters for the Discovery Channel and TLC
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Let’s rename Army bases honoring Confederate officers –
As commander of the Army of the Mississippi, Braxton Bragg (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) was outmaneuvered in several campaigns; defeated Union forces at Chickamauga but was then routed by U.S. Grant in the battle of
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