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Malcolm X

Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of

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Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves

The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special

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Source: The Urban Daily

ESSENCE Releases First Comprehensive Survey on How Black Women Are Impacted by COVID-19

Financially, over half (52%) of black women in the study are currently facing or anticipating a negative financial impact as a result of the pandemic, as compared with only 20% who are not, and half (50%) say that their ability to work effectively has been negatively affected by the

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Chuck Berry

Charles Anderson Edward Berry, better known as Chuck Berry, is popularly considered the father of Rock ‘n’ Roll. He was born on October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri to Martha and Henry Berry, who were grandchildren of slaves. His ancestors had migrated from the rural south to Missouri to look

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Source: Black History Resources

Oct

18

1926

Detroit Anti-Black Riot

Whites began a riot in Detroit after it was rumored a black man had killed a white woman and her infant. A similar rumor, alleging the victims were white and the perpetrator white, soon found its way into the black community. In truth, no one had been killed. An estimated 25 blacks and 9 whites

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Jun

20

1943

Combahee River Collective (1974-1980)

The Combahee River Collective, founded by black feminists and lesbians in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, was best known for its Combahee River Collective Statement. This document was one of the earliest explorations of the intersection of multiple oppressions, including racism and heterosexism. For

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Source: Black Past

NAACP Launches #WeAreDoneDying Campaign, Empowering Black and Brown Communities to Take Action Against Senseless Killings of African Americans

The NAACP, the nation’s foremost social justice organization, has launched a campaign entitled #WeAreDoneDying, aimed at exposing the inequities embedded into the American healthcare system and the country at

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Source: Chicago Defender

Shooting of Michael Brown

For the protests that followed the shooting of Michael Brown, see Ferguson

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

We can’t breathe: Trump’s EPA is slowly suffocating Black America | The Crusader Newspaper Group

OPINION: Representative Bobby Rush calls out the administration for not enforcing pollution and clean air regulations that disproportionately harm African Americans

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

In 14th year, Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion has only gotten bigger

Rarely has an event grown big enough that it has outgrown Walt Disney

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Source: Savoy Network

News Conference: Chinese Merchants/Government Accused of Human Rights Violations: Exploitation During COVID-19 Pandemic

Chinese Merchants in Black Community Targeted for Sanctions-Boycott Nationwide on 5-19-2020

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Spike Lee

The son of the jazz composer Bill Lee, he was reared in a middle-class Brooklyn neighbourhood. He majored in communications at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, where he directed his first Super-8 films and met his future coproducer, Monty Ross. In 1978 Lee entered New York University’s Graduate Film

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McAdoo, Benjamin (1920-1981)

Benjamin F. McAdoo was born in Pasadena, California in 1920. He established the first African American-owned architecture firm in Seattle and was the first black man to practice architecture in Washington State. He was a local community leader and advocate for the advancement of low-income resident

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Source: Black Past

Oct

30

1998

Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936

In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah, describes how she “discovered” Beatrice Morrow Cannady, an editor who spent nearly 25 years advocating civil rights in Oregon. Cannady used her Portland-based

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Source: Black Past

Aug

19

1974

Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America

In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based

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Source: Chicago Defender

Tanner Chapel AME Church (1887- )

Tanner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phoenix is the oldest African American Church in the State of Arizona. Tanner Chapel was founded by African American settlers who came to Arizona Territory to escape racism, oppression, and violence in the post-Reconstruction South. They also

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Source: Black Past

Dec

15

2010

Tina Knowles Lawson, Beyoncé launch Houston campaign to fight COVID-19

– Philanthropist, entrepreneur and fashion designer, Tina Knowles Lawson, has created the #IDIDMYPART campaign to encourage residents in her beloved home city of Houston to get tested in wake of the COVID-19

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Hemphill, Essex (1957-1995)

Brash, bold, provocative, and edgy. These are just some of the many words that were used to describe the poet and performer Essex Hemphill who was known for his outspoken, direct, and often confrontational poems and articles. Hemphill was also unapologetic about his open homosexuality. The oldest

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Source: Black Past

Nov

10

1995

Testing where the people are –

Harper and Santiago know each other, but Santiago doesn’t represent Daytona Beach’s Black community in the Florida

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Source: Florida Courier

Thomas, Constance Allen Pitter (1917-2006)

Constance Allen Pitter Thomas, the eldest of the Pitter Sisters, was born July 13, 1917, to Edward A. Pitter and Marjorie Allen Pitter, in the East Madison Street district of Seattle, Washington. She grew up in a very close-knit family and community, in which she received

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Source: Black Past

Jul

13

1917

L.A.’s Premiere Social Justice Warrior, Passes

Aubry’s beliefs were likely nurtured during his early childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, and further instilled when he and other Black students integrated L.A.’s Fremont High School in the late

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a former slave and human rights activist, as well as the first African American to hold a high ranking U.S. government position. He was born into slavery; the exact date of his birth is not known but it is estimated to be around 1818. He was raised by his maternal

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National Negro Health Week: Formed to Educate Black Communities on Proper Health Practices

Observed during the first week of April, it focused on educating black communities throughout America on methods of acquiring health care as well as informed students on proper health

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Tucker Carlson, Journalist Zaid Jilani Think Focusing On One Group’s Suffering From Coronavirus Over Others Is Wrong

Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers Monday that media personalities like CNN’s Don Lemon are equating the coronavirus with racism, leaving us “paranoid and

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Source: The Daily Caller

Young, Andrew (Seattle)

Andrew J. Young (not related to Martin Luther King’s lieutenant and Southern Christian Leadership Conference member of the same name) was a civil rights activist in Seattle during the middle part of the twentieth century. A lawyer, Young first reached prominence when he served as the assistant

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Source: Black Past

Oct

8

1966

A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System

In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack

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Source: Black Past

Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American

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FIGHTING THE ENEMY WITHIN | The Crusader Newspaper Group

One of these schisms is between two different groups of Black people: the “maskers” and the

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

A. Philip Randolph Institute (1965- )

The A. Philip Randolph Institute was founded by and named for labor leader Asa Philip Randolph, who was the longtime president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. Randolph and his friend and fellow activist Bayard Rustin founded APRI in 1965 after their successful 1963 March on

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Source: Black Past

Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church (1890- )

The Trinity African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in Utah. Trinity AME was organized in 1890 by Rev. T. Saunders when Salt Lake City was the capital of Utah Territory. The early date of founding reflects the presence of black non-Mormon

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