State of Illinois Cancels Summer Events at McCormick Place Including Black Women's Expo; New Dates Scheduled for 2021

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State of Illinois Cancels Summer Events at McCormick Place Including Black Women's Expo; New Dates Scheduled for 2021

Black Women’s Expo (BWe) founder Merry Green and her team held on to hope that the country’s largest and longest-running exposition targeting African American women would take place on the rescheduled dates this August.

Green did share that she is excited that dates for next year’s Expo are on the books for April 9-11, 2021.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot also offered her support in seeing the Black Women’s Expo make a huge comeback next year.

“For over 25 years the Black Women’s Expo has empowered tens of thousands of Chicago’s entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into businesses that support our communities and drive our local economy.

Green stated that virtual events will continue for the balance of the year to maintain engagement of supporters while celebrating the businesses, brands, sponsors and organizations affiliated with the Expo.

Source: Chicago Defender

African-American self-determination

African-American self-determination refers to efforts to secure self-determination for African-Americans and related peoples in North America. It often intersects with the historic Back-to-Africa movement and general Black separatism, but also manifests in present and historic demands for

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Desoto City Hall & Some Facilities Set For a Limited Reopening on May 18th: Safety Restrictions & Modified Rules In Place

On Monday, May 18th, in conjunction with Governor Greg Abbott’s plan to reopen Texas, DeSoto’s City Hall, and some other important City facilities will reopen to the public on a graduated

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

(1988) Rev. Jesse Jackson, “Keep Hope Alive.”

In 1988, Rev. Jesse Jackson made a second unsuccessful run for the Democratic Nomination for President, losing out to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Jackson, however, gave another major address at the Democratic National Convention which met in Atlanta, Georgia. The address, delivered on

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Source: Black Past

Daniel Hale Williams - Death

Williams died on August 4, 1931, having set standards and examples for surgeons, both Black and White, for years to come.

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Source: Black History Resources

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4

1931

The French And Indian War

Black Troops in the French and Indian War: Even before the Revolutionary War, a pattern had been established in British colonies whereby African Americans were enlisted to defend the colonies when they were attacked, but were excluded from military service in times of peace. When Major General

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Mar

9

2002

How Dasha Kennedy, Founder Of The Broke Black Girl, Turned Her Money Woes Into A Chance To Teach 65,000 Black Women About Financial Literacy

The Broke Black Girl Facebook group is a true sisterhood and community committed to having honest conversations about financial woes in hopes of helping each other through our

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Source: MadameNoire

The first NBA Black Assistant Coach and first Black chief scout, Earl Lloyd, bec

The first NBA Black Assistant Coach and first Black chief scout, Earl Lloyd, becomes the first Black person to play in an NBA game (beating out Charles Cooper and Nat Clifton by a day), 1950

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Oct

21

1950

Black nationalism

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Actions of Granger and surrogates clearly demonstrate he “don’t give a damn” about preserving democratic values

In 2007, a much younger former U.S. President Jimmy Carter wrote “Beyond the White House,” about his post-presidency work with The Carter Center, an institution he and his wife help create in

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Breezy Meadows Camp

On May 1, 1936 the Robert Gould Shaw House bought Breezy Meadows Camp in Holliston, Massachusetts, which provided summer camping for Boston's Black children and youth until the mid 1960s.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

Combahee River Collective

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Source: Black Past

Lorraine Hansberry

The granddaughter of a freed slave, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, to a successful real estate broker and a school teacher who resided in Chicago, Illinois. In 1938, the family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by its inhabitants but the former refused to

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Source: Black History Resources

May

19

1930

Dear Black People: Coronavirus Will Kill You ⋆

You may have seen some of the conspiracy theories, myths or outright lies floating around the internet stating that black folks cannot get

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Source: The Toledo Journal

African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical

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It is at Uptown Records where Harrell famously discovered future music mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, who started at the company as an intern and rose to the ranks of a Vice-President of A&R signing such acts as Mary J. Blige, Jodeci and Father

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Assertive, foresighted and progressive political leadership among Black elected officials has been wanton in the past, and now, Black folks must decide who to elect as we’re faced with some of the gravest challenges of our

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a 1952 book by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and intellectual from Martinique. The book is written in the style of auto-theory, in which Fanon shares his own experiences in addition to presenting a historical critique of the effects of

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Rep Maxine Waters reveals her sister died of COVID-19 at nursing home

California Rep Maxine Waters' sister died from coronavirus at a Missouri nursing home where staffers have staged protests against poor

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Source: Daily Mail Online

Lagos coronavirus: 2,278 cases; patient delivers at treatment center

Total confirmed cases = 2278

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Why are African Americans more at risk for COVID-19?

In Louisiana, where a third of the population is black, a staggering 70 percent of corona virus victims are African

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Source: San Francisco Bay View

Ida B’s Pulitzer was late but right on time –

Exactly 136 to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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Source: Daytona Times

Who Is Black In America (Full Show, No Commercials)

Great show that touches on a MAJOR issue that effects far more people than the few that are willing to admit

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Source: Smithsonian Black History Teaching Resources

Left of Black with Bettina Love

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Bettina Love to talk hip hop civics education. Love is an Associate Professor of Education Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia and a 2016 Nasir Jones Fellow at the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

N.C. A&T to Celebrate Class of 2020 Virtually

Combined with the December graduates and additional graduates projected for the first summer school session, North Carolina A&T is expected to produce some 2,400 graduates for the academic year, the most in university history for a single

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(1921) Marcus Garvey “Address to the Second UNIA Convention”

By 1921 the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was well on its way to becoming the largest predominately black organization in the world. Marcus Garvey, the UNIAs founder, however, already recognized W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP as its chief rival. In his closing night speech to the

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Source: Black Past

Knights of Pythias

The Knights of Pythias was a fraternal and benevolent order in Boston's small and growing Black community in lower Roxbury that provided effective health insurance and death benefits to widows and orphans. Anchored in its own building at the corner of Ruggles and Washington Streets, it helped

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Students protest at Yale University in support of the Black panthers.

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Apr

22

1970

Wm. Allison Davis born

Dr. Davis, a leading social anthropologist and educator, challenged the cultural bias of standardized intelligence tests. Dr. Davis argued that Blacks low scores were not the results of lower intelligence but the result of middle-class cultural bias posed in the questions.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

14

1902

Leader in Barber Business

James Guilford, who owned and operated a barbering business in lower Roxbury from 1934 to 1973 ( Dunbar Barbers until 1945 and Jimmy Guilford's Men's Hair Salon until 1973), was state president of the Associated Master Barbers of Massachusetts, which included both white and Black barbers.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Allan Boesak , in full Allan Aubrey Boesak (born Feb. 23, 1946, Kakamas, S.Af.), South African clergyman, who was one of South Africa’s leading spokesmen against the country’s policy of racial separation, or

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