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Ex-Bush Officials Launch Super PAC Backing Biden over Trump - Black News Channel

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press/BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials have launched a new super PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the latest in a growing number of Republican groups to come out in support of Biden over President Donald Trump. The group, 43 Alumni for Biden, has recruited at least 200 former White House officials, campaign aides and Cabinet secretaries who worked under Bush to join the push against the Republican incumbent. Theyre planning to roll out supportive testimonial videos featuring high-profile Republicans and launch a voter turnout []

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(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”

Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial

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Barack Obama Vetoes - List of Bills

President Barack Obama used his veto authority only four times during his tenure in the White House, the fewest of any president who completed at least one term since Millar Fillmore in the mid-1800s, according to data kept by the

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Source: ThoughtCo

DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)

A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871. In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator. DePriest created his own

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Source: Black Past

May

12

1951

Jarrett, Valerie (1956- )

Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, was born on November 14, 1956. She is a Chicago, Illinois attorney, businesswoman, and community leader most prominently known for her role as one of the three campaign co-chairs of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential

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Source: Black Past

(1865) Abraham Lincoln, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Public Address”

? F.A.Q. On April 11, 1865, two days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln addressed a jubilant crowd that had gathered outside the White House in Washington, D.C. While the crowd expected an address celebrating t

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Wineberry, Jesse Calvin (1955- )

Former Washington State Legislator and current internet business entrepreneur, Jesse Calvin Wineberry was born in 1955 in Sedro Woolley, Washington, and adopted by parents Peter and Mary Wineberry. Wineberry grew up in Seattle’s Central District and attended Queen Anne High School. He earned

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Prosper, Pierre-Richard (1963– )

Pierre-Richard Prosper is an attorney and diplomat who turned his passion for the rule of law into a global pursuit for justice for victims of the worst crimes of humanity, and accountability for the perpetrators of those

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Source: Black Past

Sep

11

2001

A New Era Begins: The Significance of the Barack Obama Victory, 2008

In the article below Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large provides his perspective on the importance of the Obama victory for the Presidency on Nov. 4, 2008 and the way it forever changed the United

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This Day in History - July 6

Today is the 188th day of 2020. There are 178 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: New York Times reporter Judith Miller is jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the Bush Administration's leak of an undercover Central Intelligence Agency

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President Trump Tweets Out White Power Message, Black Republican Senator Tim Scott Expresses Dismay | The Orlando Advocate

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor In yet another social media moment invoking race in America, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a supporter heard yelling, “White power!” The tweet displayed a video of a parade of supporters of the President riding golf carts through

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Blue Ivy Hunting for Easter Eggs at the White House Will Give You All the Feels

The Carters head to D.C. for President Obama's last Easter.

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Wells Fargo tells employees to delete TikTok from their company devices - L.A. Focus Newspaper

In a statement to CNN Business on Monday, a Wells Fargo spokesperson said the company had identified a "small number of employees with corporate-owned devices who had installed the TikTok

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

(2004) Al Sharpton, “Speech Before the 2004 Democratic National Convention"

In 2004 Rev. Al Sharpton of New York City, campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President. Sharpton saw himself as the successor to Rev. Jesse Jackson who campaigned for the Presidency on behalf of the impoverished and oppressed. Although he did not garner as much support as Jackson did

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Source: Black Past

Powell, Colin (1937- )

Colin Powell is a retired Four-Star United States Army General who was the first African American to serve as National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff and Secretary of

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Source: Black Past

Election Year Déjà Vu (1932 v. 2020) - The New Journal and Guide

By Dr. Kelton Edmonds

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery's death a 'lynching of an African American man'

"In cities across this country, even if local leadership fails, there was always the backstop of our Justice Department to step in and make sure people are appropriately prosecuted. But we don't have that leadership at the top right now.

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Source: Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather - KITV Channel 4 - Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather - KITV Channel 4

Malawi: Chakwera Takes Oath of Office

[MBC] Tonse Alliance torch-bearer Dr. Lazarus Chakwera was on Sunday sworn in as the sixth President of Malawi, alongside his running mate Dr. Saulos Chilima as Vice President, at a colourful ceremony held at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe.

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Source: allAfrica.com

President Edwin Barclay of Liberia, first African

President Edwin Barclay of Liberia, first African president to pay an official visit to an American president, arrived at White House.

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May

26

1943

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland but in 1838, at age 20, he escaped to freedom in New York. A few years later he went to work for abolitionist William Lloyd

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Dett, R. Nathaniel (1882-1943)

From precocious five-year-old piano player in the 1890s to internationally known choral director, composer, concert pianist, and poet, R. Nathaniel Dett became champion for preservation of the black spiritual which he called authentic American folk music: He dedicated his life to finding a musical

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Aug

26

2011

Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. (1821- )

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) is the oldest continuously operating black church in the District of Columbia. Metropolitan AME is also designated by the AME Church (the black denomination founded in 1787 by Richard Allen) as the National Cathedral of African

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1894

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875-1912)

Born on August 15, 1875 to a physician from Sierra Leone and an Englishwoman, musical composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor grew-up in Holborn, England. He revealed his musical talents at the age of five, began studying the violin at the age of seven, and entered the Royal College of

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Aug

15

1875

Trump Wears Mask Publicly After 132K Die In U.S. From Coronavirus

Donald Trump, the racist President of the United States, finally work a mask in public yesterday (July 11). It happened to finally happen only after 132,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the nation.

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Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis Voice and Viewpoint

Edited by Emily Crockett Allison Elyse Gualtieri The 53-year-old hopes to unseat the popular civil rights icon John Lewis, 80, who has represented Georgia’s 5th Congressional District since 1986. The seat was also held by former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young in the 1970s, and has only been in

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Herman Cain hospitalized with COVID-19 after attending Trump rally

Herman Cain has been hospitalized with COVID-19 at an Atlanta-area hospital, where he is reportedly alert and doing well. The 2012 Republican presidential candidate tested positive for the virus on Monday, less than two weeks after attending President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Daily

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Kanye West President? - Free Press of Jacksonville

Kanye West (GQ) His announcement is greeted with questions. By RISHIKA DUGYALA, Politico Kanye West tweeted Saturday night that he wants to run for president in 2020 — four months before the election and apparently [...]

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Jesse Owens: Four Time Olympic Gold Medalist

During the 1930s, the Great Depression, Jim Crow Era laws and de facto segregation kept African-Americans in the United States fighting for equality. In Eastern Europe, the Jewish Holocaust was well underway with German ruler Adolf Hitler spearheading a Nazi

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Source: ThoughtCo

Joe Biden Says George Floyd’s Death Is A Wake Up Call’

"We’re a nation in pain."

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Obama Immigration Reform 2014 Speech: Announcing Executive Action [FULL]

Immigration Reform 2014 News: In an address from the White House, President Obama chose confrontation over conciliation as he asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation’s immigration

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Source: Smithsonian Black History Teaching Resources

A joint appearance for national unity - Stabroek News

Dear Editor, The recount exercise is done. It has clearly established that the opposition PPP has won the elections. The article A joint appearance for national unity appeared first on Stabroek News.

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