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Samuel David Ferguson

  • Jun 24, 1885
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Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops.

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Another Black private equity banker pays off HBCU student's tuition at graduation
Frank Baker and his wife Laura Day Baker, gifted Spelman College $1 million to offset the tuition for 50 high-achieving graduates that had tuition balances and needed
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4 Pan-African Leaders You Should Know
John B. Russwurm was an abolitionist and co-founder of the first newspaper published by African-Americans, Freedoms
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Black private equity banker pays off HBCU students tuition
Another Black equity banker and his wife are donating $1 million dollars to Spelman College to assist in offsetting the cost of nearly 50
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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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Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1951 to 1959
Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1951 to 1959
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4
2017
NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers: NNPA President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion – Voice and Viewpoint
A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced
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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper
African-American culture
African-American culture, also known as Black-American culture, refers to the cultural contributions of African Americans to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture. The distinct identity of African-American culture is rooted in the
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Arthur E. Johnson
Arthur E. Johnson was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Development for Lockheed Martin Corporation. Johnson contributed over 20 years of senior leadership experience in the information technology and defense industry. Prior to Lockheed Martin, Johnson served as President and Chief
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How African-Americans Came About Supporting the Democratic Party
The events of the Civil Rights movement were a catalyst for blacks to leave the Republican Party in
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Africa: Diaspora African Forum Demands Justice for George Floyd
The Diaspora African Forum has petitioned the United States of America (USA) government to arrest and prosecute all four police officers who were caught on video manhandling George Floyd at Minneapolis, USA, resulting in his
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Wharton Sr., Clifton Reginald (1899-1990)
Clifton R. Wharton, one of the first African-Americans to hold a professional position in the U.S. State Department, was born in 1899 in Baltimore, Maryland. Described as a “scholastic marvel,” Wharton attended English High School in Boston, Massachusetts, skipped college and was
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Source: Black Past
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May
30
2006
‘We Need Help’: Coronavirus Fuels Racism Against Black Americans in China
“African-Americans in Guangzhou are collateral damage of a policy implemented to target Africans, in which Chinese don’t check your visa, just the color of your skin,” said Yaqiu Wang, a China researcher at Human Rights
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Nicholas Payton - Wikipedia
After touring with Marcus Roberts and Elvin Jones in the early '90s, Payton signed a contract with Verve Records; his first album, From This Moment, appeared in
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The Role of African American Women in the Black Church
Faith is a strong guiding force in the lives of many African American women. And for all that they receive from their spiritual communities, they give back even more. In fact, black women have long been regarded as the backbone of the black church. But their extensive and significant contributions
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Black History Observed Through Genetic Makeup, According To Research
The first one was the human trade that led thousands of African slaves to the southern United States, and the second was the Great Migration period, which started around 1910, when millions of African-Americans entered New York, Chicago, and various other parts of
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Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois
Throughout his career as a sociologist, historian, educator, and sociopolitical activist, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois argued for immediate racial equality for African-Americans. His emergence as an African-American leader paralleled the rise of  Jim Crow laws of the South and the
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Feb
23
1868
First American-born woman to give public lectures
On this day in 1833, Maria W. Steward delivered one of the four speeches which confirmed her place in history as the first American-born woman to give public lectures. Stewards lectures focused on encouraging African-Americans to attain education, political rights, and public recognition for their
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Feb
27
1833
List of landmark African-American legislation
Ordinance of 1787: The Northwest Territorial Government (Northwest
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Miss. Plan disenfranchises Blacks
African-Americans are
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Nov
1
1890
Elijah Muhammad: Leader of the Nation of Islam
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Oct
7
1897
Coronavirus takes deadly toll on African American communities
Black residents like Burke in Prince George’s County have been contracting and dying from coronavirus at alarming
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Gambia postpones protest against police violence in the US
Gambian police “temporarily” banned a demonstration planned on Monday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Banjul to protest police violence in the United States, after the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a Gambian national near Atlanta, the organizer of the rally said
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Carrington, Walter Charles (1930 - )
Walter Charles Carrington served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal from 1980 to 1981, and to Nigeria from 1993 to 1997. He married Arese Ukpoma, a Nigerian physician, and has lived in three Nigerian cities since the late
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Jul
24
1930
NAACP 'Black Media Speaks' forum omits voice of African-American newspapers
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy, black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced
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Our community not guiltless: Indian-American group on recent African-American killings
WASHINGTON: Observing that the recent killings of African-Americans in the US have exposed the horrifying reality of anti-blackness in the country, an Indian-American advocacy group has said that many people of Indian- and South Asian-origin have been, at best, silent and at worst, complicit for
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Source: Latest News, Breaking News, India News, Bollywood, World, Business, Sports & Politics | New Indian Express
NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers – A President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Events leading to
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Nation of Islam Leader
Minister Louis Farrakhan, raised in Roxbury and a 1950 graduate of English High School, has been the national leader of the Nation of Islam since 1977, following the death of the founder of the Nation, Elijah Muhammad. While viewed by some as controversial, Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of
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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years
Carter G. Woodson
Born: 12/19/1875 New Canton, VirginiaDied: 4/3/1950 Washington, D.C., United StatesKnown as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson believed that documenting and sharing African American contributions was essential to cultivating positive self worth among African-Americans as
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History of the African-Americans in Philadelphia
This article documents the history of the African-Americans in
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