White Provocateurs Accused of Disrupting Peaceful George Floyd Protests with Rioting, Some Accused of Giving Bricks to Group of Black Men

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White Provocateurs Accused of Disrupting Peaceful George Floyd Protests with Rioting, Some Accused of Giving Bricks to Group of Black Men

“Our great cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are under assault by people who do not share our values, who do not value life and the work that went into this and are certainly not here to honor George Floyd,” Walz said during a press conference.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also blamed people who do not live in the city.

“We know the organizers of protests in the city, but we didn’t know these people and the organizers didn’t know them either,” Shields said.

In this video, a Black woman admonishes a group of white people for distributing bricks to Black men.

“The people breaking glass, breaking into windows & starting fires were WHITE men wearing all black.

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NAACP began a coordinated attack on segregation

NAACP began a coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination, filing a suit against the University of North Carolina on behalf of Thomas Hocutt. Case was lost on a technicality after the president of a Black college refused to certify the records of the plaintiff.

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Mar

1933

First Baptist Church, Richmond (1780-- )

The First Baptist Church, founded in 1780 by Joshua Morris, emerged in the aftermath of the Great Awakening religious revival movement (1730s-1770s) that spread across the South. In contrast to the other churches in Richmond organized during the same time, the First Baptist attracted both black

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Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant crossed the Rapidan and began his duel with Robert E. Lee. At the same time Ben Butlers Army of the James moved on Lees forces. Black division in Grants army did not play a prominent role in Wilderness Campaign, but Ben Butler gave his Black infantrymen and his eighteen hundred

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May

1864

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

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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Oct

1902

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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Nella Larsen is born

Nella Larsen is born in Chicago, Ill. She will write two important novels of the Harlem Renaissance, Quicksand and

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Apr

1891

Common, Angela Davis, Pete Rock, Ilyasah Shabazz to honor Malcolm X

Portrait of American political activist and radical civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) as he holds an 8mm movie camera in London Airport, London, England, July

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Meet Ernest White: The FAMU Grad Behind The Travel TV Show ‘Fly Brother’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

Although Black people have always traveled, it has only begun to surge within the last 7-10 years, largely in part to the internet and travel blogs like White’s becoming more

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Female Sexual Predators and the Lil Boosie That Loves Them | Afro

By Alexis Taylor

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Religion in Black America

Religion in Black America refers to the religious and spiritual practices of blacks and people of African descent in the United States. Historians generally agree that the religious life of Black Americans forms the foundation of their community life.[1] Before 1775 there was scattered evidence of

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181 Blacks in Chicago died at home of COVID-19 | The Crusader Newspaper Group

New data shows that 87 died the same day incident was reported, with many being Black females

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Afro-Colombians

Colombia has the second largest African descendant population in Latin America. According to the census of 2005, the government estimates that Afro-descendants make up 10.6% of the total population. This is 16% down from the government's previous estimations in 2002, which put the total

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Leading Dentist

Dr. W. Alexander Cox had a large dental practice among Black and white patients in Cambridge during the early 1900s. He was the founder and president of the dental section of the National Medical Association. In the late 1800s Dr. Cox was owner and publisher of the Advocate, the only newspaper

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TV One's "News One Now" Devotes to Coverage of Hillary Clinton's South Carolina Town Hall Meeting

TV One’s News One Now, the first morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports, and culture from an explicitly African American perspective, is devoting its entire Monday, Nov. 9 (7-8 a.m. ET) broadcast to covering Presidential Democratic Candidate

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Black Lawmakers in Virginia Urge Northam to Reconsider Friday Reopening

The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus has asked Gov. Ralph Northam to refrain from reopening most of the state on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying that such a premature move would make Black and brown Virginians "guinea pigs for our

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Early Numbers Show New COVID-19 Syndrome May Place Black Children at Higher Risk | Black Voice News

Where the nation once believed children were rarely impacted by COVID-19, this mysterious COVID-19 related illness has touched children in every age group beginning with five percent of the cases impacting children under the age of one; 15 percent were between the ages of one and four years; 29

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Hugo Black

Hugo Black , in full Hugo La Fayette Black (born February 27, 1886, Harlan, Clay county, Alabama, U.S.—died September 25, 1971, Bethesda, Maryland), lawyer, politician, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937–71). Black’s legacy as a Supreme Court justice derives from

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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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South Carolina citizens endorsed constitutional

South Carolina citizens endorsed constitutional convention and selected delegates. Records indicated that 66,418 Blacks and 2350 whites voted for the convention and 2278 whites voted against holding a convention. The total vote cast was 71,046. Not a single Black voted against the convention.

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Nov

1867

Gwendolyn Brooks

Born on June 7, 1917, to a family who belonged to Kansas but later moved to Chicago, Gwendolyn Brooks was an American poet and teacher. Even though both of her parents wanted to pursue their careers as doctors but were unable to do so due to financial constraints, they were supportive of their

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Jun

1917

The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

Combahee River Collective

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African-American studies

African-American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans. Taken broadly, the field studies not only the cultures of people of African descent in the United States, but the cultures of the entire African diaspora

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Allan Boesak

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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More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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School Enrollment in Apartheid South Africa

It is well known that one of the fundamental differences between the experiences of Whites and Blacks in Apartheid era South Africa was education. Whilst the battle against enforced education in Afrikaans was eventually won, the Apartheid governments Bantu education policy meant that Black children

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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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NYC possible coronavirus-related cases in kids are mostly Black and Hispanic

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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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Pregnant Mom Arrested For Traffic Violations Says She Was Put At Risk For COVID-19

Montgomery, AL — Diamond Davis, a 27-year old pregnant mother from Alabama, was arrested for allegedly driving with improper license plates and other non-violent

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