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Thandiswa Mazwai’s essential performance to mark Africa Day

Brand SA and the department of sports, arts and culture, in association with Constitution Hill, present Play Your Part Africa Live Stream Concert on May

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Small Business Series: Three Black-Owned Beauty and Wellness Brands Everyone Should Know

Black people have found and will continue to find ways to contribute to the expansion of the beauty and wellness industry, through the creation of their own

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Source: Chicago Defender

'My Biggest Inspiration': 13-Year-Old Rising Star Aria Brooks Credits Marsai Martin, Other Young Black Actresses for Allowing Her to Dream Big

Rising star Aria Brooks is the newest member of Nickelodeon’s “All That” reboot cast, but don’t box her in as only an

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

NFL’s Deandre Baker & Quinton Dunbar Accused Of Sticking Up A Cookout, Allegedly

NFL players Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar have been accused of armed robbery and warrants have been issued for their

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Source: Black America Web

Simmons unfazed by Windies T20 rankings slide

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies’ slump in the world Twenty20 rankings is of little concern to head coach Phil Simmons, but believes it can work to his side’s advantage if the T20 World Cup comes off in Australia this

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Davis, Shani (1982- )

Shani Davis became the first African American to win a gold medal an individual event in the Winter Olympics and the first African American male to win a gold when he competed in the men’s 1,000-meter speedskating championship in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in

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Source: Black Past

Innovations City Hosts Virtual Pitch Competition

Innovations City, a peer-to-peer online platform designed to help entrepreneurs, announced it will host its virtual global pitch competition for women of color entrepreneurs on May

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Source: San Diego Business Journal Homepage | San Diego Business Journal

Celebrating The Black History Of Memorial Day

UPDATED: 12:03 p.m. ET, May 21, 2020

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Source: NewsOne

Kenya: Norwegian Brothers to Battle 'Team Timothy Cheruiyot' in Virtual Race

Nairobi — World 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot will team up with Commonwealth Champion Elijah Manangoi and 800m runner Edwin Meli to compete against the Norwegian Ingebrigtsen brothers in a virtual race set for June 11, competing over 2,000m in an event christened 'Maurie Plant Memorial

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Source: allAfrica.com

BOOK CORNER: ‘Shadow Wolves’ take on the Zeta cartel in new book

Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker, is lured out of retirement to lead the Shadow Wolves, an elite team of intelligent and tough Native American trackers from tribes across the United States, that are tasked with battling the viscous drug cartel in the Arizona

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Source: Homepage -

Black Filmworks Festival held

Oakland, California hosted the first Bay Area Black Filmworks Festival. Sponsored by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, the three-day event featured 25 films including a documentary entitled, Making Do the Right Thing.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

20

1990

DeSoto High School Announces Its Class of 2020 Senior Celebrations (press release)

DESOTO – DeSoto, Texas – DeSoto Independent School District and DeSoto High School announce graduation proceedings for the DeSoto High School Class of 2020 will take place May 27 and

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19 – Voice and Viewpoint

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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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

2020 graduates are getting the VIP, special treatment –

This year, we had a pretty gloomy Class of 2020 who couldn’t think of anything worse than not being able to walk across the stage in that cap and gown, have the college president or school principal shake their hand and celebrate their

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Source: Florida Courier

Niger

In February 2010, the military of Niger staged a coup and overthrew the government of President Mamadou Tandja, replacing him with a leader of their own choosing, Salou Djibo. A new government, deemed the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, was also formed. Djibo promised the people

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

The Role of Defense Mechanisms Definition in Biology

It’s the chemical, which is the substance also is responsible for supplying immunity protection system with radicals, which is accountable for its destruction of enemy body cells, which can provide protection from

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )

St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830s a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural

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Source: Black Past

Oct

9

1842

Louis Farrakhan

Louis Farrakhan, born as Louis Eugene Wolcott, is a Muslim American, known most popularly as a leader of the Islamic organization Nation of Islam (NOI). He was born on May 11, 1933 in The Bronx, New York. Farrakhan’s family had a difficult life, as he never knew his biological father and the family

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Source: Black History Resources

May

11

1933

A Black Holocaust In America

The Tulsa Riot of 1921

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

31

1921

Vonetta Flowers

Vonetta Flowers became the first black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. She and partner Jill Brakken won the inagural womens two-person bobsled event.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

19

2002

Boston Afro-American Artists, Inc.

The Boston Afro-American Artists, Inc. ( BAAA) - (formerly the Boston Negro Artists Association) - was organized in 1963 by J. Marcus Mitchell and Calvin Burnett to stimulate the development of and appreciation for the visual arts within the Black community. Incorporated in 1966, the BAAA developed

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Jackson Honored as ‘Best Mentor’

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Black PR Wire) – The Daily Business Review has recognized Government Law & Lobbying Shareholder Yolanda Cash Jackson as a “Best Mentor” in its 2020 Professional Excellence

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Source: South Florida Times

Bermuda's City Of Hamilton To Host The 40th Annual Conference Of Black Mayors

Bermuda’s Corporation of Hamilton has announced it will host the 40th annual Conference of Black Mayors Convention later this

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Source: Savoy Network

Obama to U.S. graduates: It’s your generation world to shape - P.M. News

Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a nationally televised high school commencement speech Saturday night and challenged the graduates to shape the world, amid the pandemic and uncertainties

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Comedian, Singer and Actor Barry Brewer Talks Tyler Perry’s "Bruh" on BET and His Artistry

Comedian, Singer and Actor Barry Brewer Talks Tyler Perry’s “Bruh” on BET and His Artistry

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George Foreman

Never has the sport of boxing seen such an exhaustive transformation as that in the career of George Edward Foreman, who started off as a world-renowned boxer and later became an ordained Christian minister. Born in Marshall, Texas on January 10, 1949, the 6 foot 3 inch tall American has a lot of

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Source: Black History Resources

Jan

10

1949

2 Area Players Have Shot At Their Dream In The NFL | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

GREG REAVES …Los Angeles Rams Prospect NAPOLEON MAXWELL …Chicago Bears Prospect With the conclusion of the 2020 NFL Draft and the first fully virtual sports event, two NFL hopefuls have found themselves new

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Source: Florida Sentinel Bulletin

'Looking like Halle Berry': Ciara Sends Gushing Fans Over the Edge with Her Sexy Bikini Pics

As far as her followers can see Ciara told no lies when she bared her growing baby bump for a series of sexy bikini photos captioned, “The Bump is Bumpin” on

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Moore's Ford Lynching

During the late afternoon of the 25th of July 1946 four African-Americans were shot dead by a lynch mob at Moores Ford, Walton county, Georgia, about eight miles from the town of Monroe. The grotesquely sprawled bodies of the victims--the Coroner said at least sixty bullets were pumped into

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jul

25

1946

Africa: Minister Blade Nzimande Calls for African Solutions to COVID-19 During Africa Day

The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, assured Africa's scientific community that just as the continent had defeated colonial and racial oppression, so too would it overcome the novel

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Source: allAfrica.com

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