Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority Inc. founded

McKenzie, Vashti Murphy (1947- )

On July 11, 2000, journalist and clergywoman Vashti Murphy McKenzie became the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. In 2005 she became the denomination’s first woman to serve as Titular Head. Her commitment to community development is evident in her work with urban

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Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers’ Quest For Racial Equality Still Resonates

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Congress of Racial Equality

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is to bring about equality for all people regardless of

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America Has Tried And Failed To Explain Its Racism To The World | HuffPost

Thousands of people around the world are sending a dual message to Americans as they protest the death of George Floyd, the latest casualty of the systemic violence against Black residents of the

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dream hampton On Our Fascination With Cops, Defunding The Police & Why Patriarchy Is Her Biggest Fear

Recently, Color of Change (COC) published a report, Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre about how the crime genre glamorizes policing to the detriment of the entire country, but Black people, the victim of police

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NNPA President Dr. Ben Chavis to Moderate Forum on Equality

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Remembering Ron Brown; the first black person to head a major presidential cabinet position in U.S.

Brown attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he became the first African American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, collegiate fraternity and as result, the national charter of SPE at Middlebury was rescinded and the fraternity became known as Sigma Epsilon, the Harlemworldmagazine.com

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Mourning and Mayhem: California Legislators React to the Brutal Killing of George Floyd

Protestors and pastors across California as well as angered citizens and politicians — including Gov. Gavin Newsom — have all responded to the violent death of an unarmed Black man in

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The Sword of The Black Press

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Blacks, Don’t Fall for the President’s “Rope-A-Dope” on Churches Reopening

Special to California Black Media Partners

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The 40-Year-Old Gantt Report, Authored by Trailblazing Journalist/Entrepreneur Lucius Gantt, is One of the Longest-Running Newspaper Columns in America. In an Exclusive Florida Courier Newspaper Interview, He Tells Readers Why He’s ‘Stayed Black.’ | Afro

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. founded

Zeta Phi Beta sorority, with the help of Phi Beta Sigma Robert Samuel Taylor, was founded at Howard University by Arizona Stemmons, Myrtle Faithful, Pearl A. Neal, Fannie Watts and VIola Goings.

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A black bookstore survives the COVID pandemic

With a statewide stay-at-home order and nonessential retail businesses ordered closed, Leonard Egerton, owner of Frugal Bookstore in Nubian Square, was facing

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Known White Supremacist Stephen Miller Rumored To Be Writing Trump Speech On Race Relations

Stephen Miller is many things—Trump’s senior adviser, a far-right conservative, an anti-immigrationist and known White

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White firemen on Georgia Railroad struck to

White firemen on Georgia Railroad struck to protest employment of Blacks.

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The Sword of The Black Press

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Across The U.S., A Juneteenth 'Tinted With Sorrow' And Buoyed By Hope

Demonstrators planned rallies in towns and cities across the country, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, to commemorate the date that the U.S. informed people in Texas that all those enslaved were now free in

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An Episcopal Presidential Lament | Afro

From the streets of Minneapolis, where Mr. George Floyd went limp after a police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes, to outside the White House gates to the hundreds of protestors who besieged cities like

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Stawinski Resigns As Prince George’s County Police Chief | Afro

Despite his best attempts at masking the troubles beneath the surface of his Department, former Prince George’s County Police Chief Hank Stawinski couldn’t avoid the lack of confidence his community lost in

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Chambers, Samuel D. (1831-1929) and Amanda Chambers (1840-1925)

Like the majority of black Americans living in the South in pre-Civil War America, Samuel and Amanda Chambers were slaves. Samuel, was born in 1831 in Pickens County, Alabama. Amanda was born in 1840 in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Samuel’s father was his owner, James Davidson. His

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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Awards Historic $100,000 Founders’ Centennial Scholarship

Cayla Withers, a recent graduate of A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis, NC, was awarded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated’s Triumphant Founder Arizona Cleaver Stemons Centennial Scholarship in the amount of $100,000 on June

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Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the

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From the Hilltop to North Side, Black flight drives population change in Pittsburgh

From 1950 to 2010, the neighborhood steadily lost three-quarters of its population, dwindling to 1,925 residents and becoming more than

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The Notting Hill Riots (1958)

Amidst racial intolerance and competition over resources, the white working class of the Notting Hill area, London, UK, launched an attack against members of the black community on August the 30, 1958. Forced to arm themselves in defence, the confrontation lasted

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Opinion: Black Protest Is Music. Learning The Melody Isn't Enough

I have been overjoyed to see the large protests reaching across this nation, all the way into the small towns and suburbs, to see the pain and outrage on faces of all colors, ages and genders, people from all walks of

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COVID-19's Economic Fallout Is Hitting The Black Community Hard, Too

“Institutional racism and historical discrimination have meant that Black workers have fared worse in the labor market, even in good times,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the progressive Economic Policy Institute who co-authored a report this week looking at the devastating toll COVID-19

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Rona Rumble: Black Man Cracks White Man Over The Head With A Bottle During Bar Brawl

One white man learned the hard way not to invade the space of a Black man and his

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Delta Sigma Theta Tulsa Inc Sorority Launches Neighborhood Challenge | The Oklahoma Eagle

Tulsa Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. a public service sorority dedicated to the betterment of our communities has issued a Neighborhood Challenge of all participating neighborhoods with a response rate under

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Barack Obama's Faith - 2012 Presidential Candidates

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