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Virtual Community Calendar: Week of June 21

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The largest Sunday Dinner in North Texas, City Men Cook goes vital and virtual 2020 on the City Men Cook On Father’s Day at 2 pm.

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Jamaican medical student in Cuba readies for Spanish Town Hospital mission
THOUGH restricted in movement by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba-based Jamaican medical student Oraine Darren Lynch is biding his time, as he prepares for a final-round push towards a mission that will decide his
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Anthony Anderson Surprises Brooklyn Health Care Worker and Family with Trip to Los Angeles As Homage to Their COVID-19 Sacrifices
As a way to say thank you, Anthony Anderson gave a Brooklyn, New York, medical worker and his family a gift of to the set of ‘Black-ish’ for all they’re doing to fight the spread of
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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information
Former NAACP President Ben Jealous Named President of People For the American Way
Former NAACP president Ben Jealous has been tapped to lead People For the American Way (PFAW), a progressive advocacy
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Source: The Black Chronicle
Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
House Judiciary Committee opened hearings to
House Judiciary Committee opened hearings to decide whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon in the Watergate controversy. Two Blacks Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas were members of the committee.
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Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
May
9
1974
Woman, 87, is country's 10th COVID-19 death
JAMAICA yesterday recorded its 10th COVID-19 death — an 87-year-old woman from St
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Hello mi neighbour | Activate the spirit of philanthropy
However, some bright sparks, in the midst of this pandemic, pandemonium and panic, are persons who will give every penny they own to help improve the lot of another
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
'Insecure' Season 4 Finale Proved Black Women's Friendships Are Irreplaceable
when we thought Molly and Issa were toast, Insecure’s season 4 finale proved us
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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence
Sponsored by Intellitech
Young, Andrew (1932 - )
Andrew Young, Jr., came into prominence as a civil rights activist and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the modern civil rights movement in the United States.  Young worked with various organizations early in the movement, but his civil rights work was largely done with the
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Source: Black Past
Mar
12
1932
Community Mourns The Loss Of Long-time Activist Tony Orange | The Seattle Medium
Orange also worked for seven years as Executive Director of the Washington State Commission on African American
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Source: https://seattlemedium.com
Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven
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Source: ThoughtCo
Black History Month - African American Inventors
Anthony Phills received U.S. patent #5,136,787 on August 11, 1992 for a ruler template for computer
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Source: ThoughtCo
Aug
11
1992
Benjamin Banneker Biography - Space/Astronomy
Benjamin Banneker was an African-American astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher who was instrumental in surveying the District of
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Source: ThoughtCo
Oct
9
1806
Sophia's joy
Nicole Myers, acting marketing assistant, Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), wipes tears from Sophia Sutherland's eyes after Sutherland became emotional on receiving an automated wheelchair from the bus company and Sanmerna Paper Products Ltd at the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre in St Andrew
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Smith, Bessie (1894-1937)
Along with Ma Rainey and Mamie Smith, singer Bessie Smith helped pioneer the genre of blues music and propel it into popular culture. Her early death at the age of 43 cut short a career that influenced the direction of American music and contributed to the success of African Americans in the
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Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Boston Professional Chapter
Sep
26
1937
Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony is an American basketball player who currently plays for the New York Knicks NBA team. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 29, 1984 to Carmelo and Mary Iriarte. His father was Puerto Rican whereas his mother was African American. He had a difficult childhood growing up in
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Source: Black History Resources
Sponsored by Diversity In Action
May
29
1984
Carmelo Anthony Says He's Not Sure If He'll Come Back If the NBA Returns This Season
The Portland Trail Blazers were the only NBA team that was against the league’s proposal to restart in
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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information
Phillips cites pattern of abuse by JLP-led municipal corporations
PRESIDENT of the People's National Party (PNP) Dr Peter Phillips says he has detected a pattern of abuse of power by municipal councils controlled by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Sponsored by Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Boston Professional Chapter
Sunday Brew — June 7, 2020
That's because the party's leaders, in particular its President Dr Peter Phillips, have remained stagnant and uninspiring…unveiling the same criticisms of the Government that people have become tired
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Patton, Lynne (1973- )
In June 2017, Lynne Patton, Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation and a senior assistant to Eric Trump, was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Region II office which manages the department’s activities in New York and New
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Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Jordan, Barbara (1936-1996) - Birthday
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936.
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Source: Black Past
Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Feb
21
1936
African American History in the West Bibliography Authors & Editors
Abajian, James de T. Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings Through 1970 Yes
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Source: Black Past
Man accused of engaging cops in shootout freed
Cornel Wilkins, who was accused of engaging the police in a shoot-out, injuring one of the cops, has been freed by the Gun
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
BET Awards '20: Beyoncé Receives Humanitarian Award; Tributes To Kobe Bryant And Little Richard
New York, NY – (June 25, 2020) – Today BET Networks announces new additions to the line-up of the 20th Annual BET Awards, honoring prolific activists in the Black community and recognizing those who unfortunately left us in
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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET
Last Call
“When the phone was answered the phone was just open and that was it,” head of the team, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Orlando Lewis related
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Interracial Lead
These interracial stories are part of a broader mainstreaming of Black women’s beauty and cultural women are romantically involved with white men in works as varied as Broadway’s “Slave Play” and “American Son”; the movie “Sonic the Hedgehog”; the lighthearted sitcoms “Bob Hearts Abishola” and
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Source: The Black Chronicle
Mandela Highway infrastructure works to result in water disruptions for communities
Sections of the Corporate Area and St Catherine are to experience water disruptions as major infrastructure works are to be undertaken on the recently upgraded Mandela
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Regional and int'l news briefs
The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Sponsored by BARBinc
Public Visitation, Service for Dr. Thomas Freeman Scheduled for June 16
Texas Southern University will host a public visitation for Dr. Thomas F. Freeman on Tuesday, June 16, from 10 a.m.-12:45 p.m., with a memorial service to follow, in the Health & Physical Education (H&PE) Arena (3010 Wheeler Avenue, Houston, TX
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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward
Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Remembrance in the Cemetery: In Search of “The Accidental Slaveowner”
In the account below Central Washington University anthropologist Mark Auslander describes why he wrote The Accidental Slaveholder, which describes the curious ways in which the legacy of slavery extend into the contemporary
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Source: Black Past
Retired Immaculate Principal Sister Angella Harris dies
She passed away at 11 o’clock yesterday morning after a long fight with
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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