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Katherine Stockett’s excellent novel, The Help, is about the African American maids who worked in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Stockett reflects the brutal realties of 20th Century slavery being carried out in pretentious southern white households that continued from
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Source: Black Past
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Br'er Rabbit
Brer Rabbit /ˈ b r ɛər/ (Brother Rabbit), also spelled Brer Rabbit or Brer Rabbit or Bruh Rabbit, is a central figure as Uncle Remus tells stories of the Southern United States. Brer Rabbit is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company
African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, demand for films aimed at black theaters in both the South and larger Northern cities prompted the formation of several “black” motion picture
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African American History and Women Timeline 1980-1989
[Previous] [Next] Angela Davis ran for Vice President on the Communist Party ticket.  She became Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, a position she held until 1984. Janie L. Mines graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. She was the first African American
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Hollywood’s Movie Review: Miss Juneteenth
Miss Juneteenth is a labor of love for first-time director and Fort Worth native, Channing Godfrey
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Black America speaks. America should listen.
30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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Josephine Baker
Born: 6/3/1906 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 4/12/1975 Paris, FranceJosephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the Black Pearl, Bronze Venus and even the Creole Goddess. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri,Baker was
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company
African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, demand for films aimed at black theaters in both the South and larger Northern cities prompted the formation of several “black” motion picture
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Source: Black Past
FIFA Ranking: Super Eagles drop to 42nd position
This drop in ranking for Nigeria came after the Super Eagles were held to 1-1 draws by Lesotho and Zimbabwe in the World Cup qualifiers. The post FIFA Ranking: Super Eagles drop to 42nd position appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
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Fred Jones
Fred McKinley Jones is certainly one of the most important Black inventors ever based on the sheer number of inventions he formulated as well as their
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Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup a Violinist, married Anne Hampton on Christmas Day in 1828. In January of 1841 he was offered a job as a part-time violinist with a traveling band. This offer turned out to be a trick, where Solomon was sold into
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JO 2024 : Florent Manaudou décroche le bronze pour ses 4es Jeux sur sa distance fétiche - Haiti24
Une semaine après avoir porté le drapeau de la France au cours de la cérémonie d'ouverture et pour ses 4e JO, Florent Manaudou a décroché une cinquième médaille olympique en remportant le bronze dans la finale du 50 m nage
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12 Must See Black History Movies
Decades of struggle and hardship paid off when United States elected a black president. It is still too early to say that discrimination has been completely abolished from U.S as different races are being targeted instead of blacks. The blacks who used to be traded to western countries and kept as
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The Power of the Press: African-American News Publications in the Jim Crow Era
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South Africa: Constitutional Court Accused of Taking Too Long to Rule On Crucial Election Case
[GroundUp] "I fear a further delay may begin to jeopardise the election process itself" says independent candidate Zackie Achmat
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Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard , in full Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard (born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa), South African dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the apartheid
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11
1932
13-Year-Old Black Teen Solves 34 Math Problems in 172 Seconds, Earns Full Scholarship
Nationwide -- Meet Nasara James Dabo, a 13-year-old girl from Nigeria who has caught attention with her incredible feat. At the International Mathematical Olympiad, she solved 34 math problems in just 172 seconds, winning a gold medal in the junior category.Nasara, who is a student at Ideal College
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Afro e-Edition 05-24-2024
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Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Acquires Rights To Sammy Davis, Jr. Bio
Entertainment Studios, Inc., which produces and distributes 38 television programs worldwide, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations and owner of eight 24-hour HD cable networks, proudly
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Isaacs, Cheryl Boone (1949---)
Veteran publicist Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first African American to serve as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, followed the path of her pioneering sibling as a top-tier executive in the Hollywood motion picture industry.  Ashley A. Boone Jr. (1939-1994),her brother, had
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Source: Black Past
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Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is Cooglers first feature-length film and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale
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What is the future for Saudi Arabia in Africa? [BusinessAfrica] | Africanews
Investing in Africa is certainly nothing new for Riyadh, but this time it seems that the Saudis are determined to catch up on the African continent.
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Booker Washington in Seattle, 1913
An unusual incidence of interracial solidarity between blacks and Asian Americans occurred during Booker T. Washington’s visit to Seattle. In March 1913, Washington embarked on a national speaking tour in order to raise money for Tuskegee Institute, the chronically underfunded “Normal and
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Source: Black Past
The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013
In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in
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Ghana- Reparations Summit Proposes Global Fund to Compensate for Slavery
At a reparations conference in Ghana, delegates decided to create a Global Reparation Fund to advocate for the long-overdue payment of reparations to the millions of Africans who were held as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade centuries ago. Over 12 million Africans were forcibly abducted
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Vincent Tubbs: First African American to Head a Motion Picture Industry Union
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Black ThenMurray Henderson: Philanthropist & Funeral Home Operator
Murray Henderson was a philanthropist who started and operated his own funeral home. Henderson was born January 2, 1883 in Algiers. He attended McDonogh No. 5 Elementary School. He later studied as an apprentice at the John A. Barrett Funeral Home. Henderson started his funeral home business in
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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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‘Hidden Figures’ No More: NASA To Rename Headquarters For Mary W. Jackson
Mary W. Jackson was part of the small group of Black women mathematicians whose groundbreaking contributions to NASA helped push space exploration
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