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Early History of African American Inventors

Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, is believed to have been the first African-American inventor to receive a patent for an invention. He was 30 years old when he was granted a patent for a dry-cleaning process. Jennings was a free tradesman and operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City. His

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Not all black people are African American. Here's the difference.

Black Lives Matter protests have opened up conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the lived experiences and identities of black people in

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Emagine Entertainment To Host Juneteenth Film Festival To Benefit UNCF

Emagine Entertainment, Inc., an innovator in luxury theatres, proudly announces the Juneteenth Film Festival to benefit the UNCF (United Negro College

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Rashford scores with new kind of player power

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New Black-Owned Apparel Line Launched to Help Legalize Being Black

Nationwide — A new Black-owned apparel line called TheRarestShirts.com has launched to help create more awareness about the constant racism, discrimination, and police brutality that African Americans continue to experience across the

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We Hurt, We Cry, and We Continue to Ask Why The Killing of George Floyd

It was the same hatred in the man who killed Medgar and many others because of their skin color that we saw kill George Floyd on May

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Latino Caucus Chair: Real Justice Calls For Supporting African American Policy Issues | L.A. Focus Newspaper

Shortly after members of the California legislature took a knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the California Capitol to protest racism and the death of George Floyd, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) took the opportunity to call out some of her Latino

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New PBS NewsHour Weekend Special | Dallas Weekly

America in Black and Blue 2020, a new PBS NewsHour Weekend special, offers context for and insight into the widespread protests currently engulfing the nation after the latest display of police brutality against Black

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Justice for Colin?

By Jacquelyn D. Heath

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Tyrese blasted by Jamie Foxx and others for ‘reverse racism’ posts

Tyrese, Jamie Foxx (Getty

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MLK Labor Council Kicks Out Seattle Police Officers' Guild

In a dramatic show of building a labor movement that is better connected with the local community and taking action to address historic and ongoing racism in our society, the MLK Labor Council affiliates voted tonight to expel the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild from the

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Africa: Some Lessons From the History of Epidemics in Africa

The history of endemic diseases, epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows, contrary to a stubborn belief, that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine - its theory, techniques, and modes of

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An Apple Siri Shortcut Will Atuomatically Record Police Encounters

Apple’s Siri Shortcut Automatically Opens Your Camera And Records the police has become an essential tool for exposing harassment and racism by

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#AAMAM: “The Great Black Way” – Celebrating African Americans on Broadway (LISTEN)

But African-American artists have made a tremendous impact, primarily as writers and performers, but also as creators of source material for Broadway shows and

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WNBA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO TIP OFF 2020 SEASON

Due to the fluid situation resulting from the pandemic, the league and players will continue to review the appropriate health and safety protocols and make necessary changes to the plan prior to arriving on site for the start of training camp and throughout the

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READ: Former President Barack Obama's 'Graduate Together' speech | The Atlanta Voice

Some of you have had to overcome serious obstacles along the way, whether it was an illness, or a parent losing a job, or living in a neighborhood where people too often count you

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Normani Tapped As New Urban Decay Global Citizen And Campaign Spokesperson

Kevin Mazur/Getty Decay just announced the addition of three fearless women to its roster of Global Citizens, including singer

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(1922) Marcus Garvey, "The Principles of The Universal Negro Improvement Association"

In this speech given in New York City on November 25, 1922, Marcus Garvey explains the objectives of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the organization he believed would lead the worldwide movement toward black

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News Analysis: Racism, Unrest, Police Brutality. Is America Living 1968 All Over Again? Yes, and No – Free Press of Jacksonville

In November 1968, Republican Richard Nixon won the White House after promising to quell the country’s unrest and restore “law and order” to its sundered

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adidas Employees Open Up About Company’s Systemic Race Problems

Since then, Bond spoke to High Snobiety about her experience of what it’s like to be a Black woman at the

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Trump claims he made Juneteenth ‘very famous’

(Photo by Saul Martinez/Getty

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Aunt Jemima brand retired by Quaker due to racial stereotype | The Atlanta Voice

Quaker Oats announced Wednesday that it will retire the Aunt Jemima brand, saying the company recognizes the character’s origins are “based on a racial

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Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson was a highly renowned classical singer who became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. She was born on February 27, 1897 to John and Annie Anderson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father ran an ice and coal business and his mother was a babysitter. She

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Confederate Speaker Portraits To Be Removed From The U.S. Capitol On Juneteenth

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(1841) Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice"

Frederick Douglass would eventually become one of the most skilled and powerful orators of his day. In 1841, three years after he escaped slavery and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34-year-old Douglass gave a brief speech on a situation he had not anticipated, racial prejudice in Northern

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Michael Strahan Says He Found It Difficult to Speak Up As a Black Man on Former Show

Michael Strahan is spilling the beans about an undesirable work environment that made him feel that as a Black man, he couldn’t speak his

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Tyler Perry Set to Pay for the Funeral of Rayshard Brooks – Free Press of Jacksonville

One Hollywood director is doing his part to help the family of Rayshard

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African Americans in WW2

The second global war, also known as Second World War (WW2), occurred in 1939 and did not end till 1945. It is considered the world’s deadliest conflict in human history that claimed lives of millions of people upon political and military disagreements. The two opposing military alliances called

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Newswire: George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, laid to rest

By: Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

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Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment

In the account below University of Quebec at Montreal historian Greg Robinson describes the activies of Hugh MacBeth, a black Los Angeles attorney, on behalf of the Japanese American citizens and resident aliens incarcerated during World War

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