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Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential

Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research

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Abrams: 'I do what I can to support their message, but not to distract from their efforts' | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said she has not physically joined in the protests over the death of George Floyd, but is being supportive in other ways, believing that young people should lead and her participation would only “distract” from the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Pandemic Power: Black Female Mayors Shine During COVID-19 Crisis

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Atlanta, GA), Mayor LaToya Cantrell (New Orleans, LA), Mayor Lori Lightfoot

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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"

On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City. His address appears

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Black Youth Are Central Force in California George Floyd Protests

Sale and other members of the youth-led movement met officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) at the steps on the east side of the state building adjacent to California State Capitol

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Influential Puerto Rican Activist Group the Young Lords

In late July 1969, the group staged their first action in an effort to force the City of New York to increase garbage pick-up in East

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Jack and Jill of America Foundation Partners With Natural Grocers to Donate $133K to HBCU Students

Natural Grocers, Together With Its Customers, Donated $133,000 to Eliminate Student Debt for Graduates at Prairie View AM University and Huston-Tillotson during the Inaugural Year of the JJ College GAP Fund for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Bill Cosby

Born William Henry “Bill Cosby” Jr. on July 12, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he describes himself mostly as a “class clown” during his school years. He was class president as well as captain of the basketball team at school. He acted in a number of school plays and in

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Several black celebrities are recovering from virus

As the global pandemic continues to wreck havoc on people throughout the world, a number of celebrities have broken their silence to report that they have tested positive for the

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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises

Aides said Obama will call for turning the protests over Floyd’s death into policy change and will urge specific reforms to ensure safer policing and increased trust between communities and law

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Pandemic Power: Black women mayors shine during COVID-19 Crisis

“As the mayor of Georgia’s largest city, I expressed opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp’s recent order allowing certain businesses—dine-in restaurants, gyms, hair and nail salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys—to reopen before health experts say doing so is

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South Africa's National Holidays

When Apartheid ended and the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela came into power in South Africa in 1994, the national holidays were changed to days that would be meaningful to all South

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Helene Gayle

Born: 8/16/1955 Buffalo, New YorkCEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global and social challenges. McKinsey Social Initiatives first program, Generation, addresses the problem of youth

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This Chicago Teen Earned A Master’s Degree in Environmental Science at 14

Obtaining a master’s degree is a big accomplishment and it can sometimes require years of experience in addition to smarts to get into a reputable graduate school

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The Tuskegee Airmen on BlackPast.org

The film Red Tails which depicts the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, opened on the weekend of January 20-21 in theaters across the nation. BlackPast.org in support of the Seattle, Washington youth violence prevention program of THE SILENT WAR and other organizations which have vowed to use this

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Quarantined Teens Participate In A First Ever Virtual NAACP ACTSO Competition

All nine hopeful students won gold medals, positioning themselves to advance to the Virtual 42nd Annual NAACP ACTSO National Competition in July

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

A Cultural History of the Zoot Suit

In the 1944 Tom & Jerry short The Zoot Cat—only the thirteenth cartoon ever made starring that famous duo—Toms would-be girlfriend lays it on him straight: Boy, are you corny! You act like a square at the fair, a goon from Saskatoon. You come on like a broken arm. Youre a sad apple, a long

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Bay State Golf Association

The Bay State Golf Association was founded in 1938 by Black golfers from Medford and Boston. In these early years they played at Sagamore Springs in Lynnfield, one of the few golf courses open to Blacks. Bay State's first annual tournament was held in 1940 at Ponkapoag Golf Club in Canton. This

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

How death is linked to Covid-19

World Health Organization guidelines state in part that a Covid-19 patient who dies should be documented as a Covid

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Online art sale to help Woodson Museum scholarship recipients whose education is now in jeopardy

But now, the museum and a local artist are taking a new approach to help 17 area college students who need financial help more than

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(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity

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Source: Black Past

Liberia: Lonestar Cell MTN Announces 2020 Edition of Y'ello Scholars Program

Lonestar Cell MTN has announced the launch of its scholar program, the Y'ello Scholars Internship and Graduate Trainee program for

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Source: allAfrica.com

Boateng, Paul Yaw (1951- )

Born to a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother in Hackney, London, Paul Yaw Boateng became one of the first black British Members of Parliament in the general election of 1987. In 2002 he became the first Afro-Briton to serve in the Prime Ministers Cabinet. The family moved to Ghana when Boateng

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Minnesota’s Black Newspapers Speak Out Amidst Uprising in Wake of Police Murder of George Floyd

Two editors from Black Press of America newspapers on the frontlines of the uprising in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by four police officers, joined a National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) livestream broadcast on Saturday, May 30, to discuss up-to-the-minute

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Rwanda: 93% of Rwandans Financially Included, Study Shows

Rwanda's financial inclusion has grown to 93 per cent, according to preliminary findings of a recent Finscope study soon to be

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Source: allAfrica.com

Celebrate Black High School Graduates

Join the Los Angeles Urban League and the Black College Expo to Celebrate Black High School Graduates In The United States of

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Sharpless, Mattie R. (1943- )

On October 1, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Mattie R. Sharpless to be the next United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Sharpless was at her post in the nation’s capital at Bangui by mid-December 2001. Sharpless served in Bangui

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Liberia: The EU Signs Over U.S.$59 Million Support to Liberia's Social, Economic Development

In a unique e-ceremony for the signing of two Financing Agreements worth USD 59 million, EU Ambassador HE Hélène Cavé reiterated EU's commitment to support Liberia's development agenda and recovery from the Coronavirus

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Bartech Founder John W. Barfield is Celebrated in Inspiring Detroit Public TV Documentary

Bartech, a leader in global workforce solutions, is proud to announce that Detroit Public Television (DPTV) will broadcast a one hour documentary about the company’s founder, John W. Barfield. Based in part on his autobiography, “Starting From Scratch: The Humble Beginnings of a Two

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(2000) Harold Ford, “Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention"

In 2000 at the National Democratic Convention in Los Angeles where Vice President Al Gore, Jr., won the Democratic Nomination for President, fellow Tennessean, Congressman Harold Ford of Memphis, gave the Keynote Address. That address appears

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