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Spend with those who serve: four Black, veteran-owned businesses to support today
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Veterans owned more than 1.9 million businesses and employed more than 5.2 million Americans in 2018, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). […] The post Spend with those who serve: four Black, veteran-owned
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Two Arrested In Fatal Stabbing of 67-year-old
Kenneth Smith, 61, of Baltimore and Brelan Handy, 27, of the 2600 block of Woodhill Drive, Glen Burnie, are both charged with first and second degree murder in the killing of Paul
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New Rule Could Deny Black Developers Access to $4 Billion-Plus in State Housing Funds
African American developers across California are worried about a rule change the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is
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The Genesis Group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1971– )
In 1971 Ruffin Bridgeforth, Darius Gray, and Eugene Orr, all African American Mormons, met at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to create a strategy for receiving greater support for the black members of the Latter Day Saints. In that year, there were only three or four hundred Latter-day
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A Georgia Man Is Suing A Police Department For Wrongful Detainment
According to the Essence.com, the federal suit was filed last Friday by Antonio Arnelo Smith, who alleges Valdosta police officers detained and injured him during an encounter in February that ended up being a case of mistaken
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BET Awards ’20: A Look Back At Young Star Award Winners
Keke Palmer
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From darkness into darkness
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2023: Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. We're truly moving to an era where a lot of Political-Fiction, will become Political-Fact in the not-too-distant future which would transgress laws, precipitating the intervention
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Ozzie Smith
Osborne Earl Smith, better known as Ozzie Smith, is a retired professional baseball player who played for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals. He was born on December 26, 1954 in Mobile, Alabama and was one of six children born to Clovi and Marvella Smith. Smith quotes his mother as being
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Bessie Smith
Born into poverty and orphaned at an early age, Bessie Smith became the greatest blues singer of her era, recording more than 160 songs between 1923 and 1933. Her early career was influenced by Ma Rainey, and Smith performed on stage throughout the southern U.S. before making records. She recorded
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Venture Smith: The Black Paul Bunyan
As a slave, Smith was sold over thirty times due to his size and unwillingness to cooperate with his
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Bell Smith, Leopoldine Emma Doualla (1939– )
Leopoldine Emma Doualla-Bell Smith is the world’s first black flight attendant. Smith was born in Cameroon which, at the time, France controlled. Smith was a princess of the royal Douala family of Cameroon. She was offered a rare after-school employment opportunity in her hometown of Douala, then
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1958
Boxer Larry Holmes - Fight-by-Fight Career Record
Larry Holmes posted a remarkable 69 wins, including 44 KOs against only six losses, during a career that spanned nearly three decades. Holmes, whose, left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, according to Wikipedia, was the World Boxing Council heavyweight champ from 1978 to 1983. He also
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States [5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It prohibited unequal application of voter registration
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First Missionary Baptist Church [Little Rock, Arkansas] (1845- )
First Missionary Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas is the oldest black church in the state.  It was founded by Reverend Wilson Brown, a self-taught slave minister, in 1845. Brown had attended the predominantly white church Missionary Baptist in Little Rock but felt led by God to build a house
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Gangs deliver food in poor Cape Town area amid lockdown
While protecting him from the coronavirus, it would normally also put him in danger in Manenberg, one of a number of violent and poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Cape Town known as the Cape
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Westmoreland man wanted for murder
The Westmoreland police have listed 27-year-old Oshane Smith otherwise called ‘Pun’, of Logwood district, Whithorn in the parish, as
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Mason, Bridget "Biddy" (1818 - 1891)
Bridget “Biddy” Mason, born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, achieved financial success that enabled her to support her extended family for generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. In a landmark case she sued her master for their freedom, saved her earnings, invested in real
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1856
JR Smith Says Attacking Man Who Allegedly Damaged His Truck Was “An Act Of Stupidness”
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AG appoints black woman as lead prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case
The Georgia attorney general on Monday appointed a black female prosecutor to oversee the case of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African-American man who was shot dead by two white men while he was reportedly out jogging on February
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OPD Detains Homeless Aid Volunteers, Violates Mask Policy | Post News Group
Oakland Police Department (OPD) officers detained and handcuffed two volunteers last Saturday who were maintaining a freshwater supply for a large community of unhoused residents that live near Wood Street in West Oakland for possession of a stolen vehicle, but let them go after approximately five
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Tone Lōc
Tone Lōc is an American rapper and actor who is best known for his song “Wild Thing”. He was born Anthony Terrell Smith on March 3, 1966 to Margaret Smith, who was the manager of a retirement home and James Smith. During his youth, Smith was a member of a street gang called SouthSide
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Jan
23
1989
Powerful Reactions To Trump’s Executive Order On Police Reform
Amid continued protests and outrage around police killings of Black people, President Donald Trump on Tuesday met with several families at the White House who’ve lost loved ones at the hands of law
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Police brutality protests move across the city
The #BlackoutNC protest was organized by Greensboro Rising, a collective of local organizers helping to mobilize the community around issues of killing, brutalization, harassment and degradation of Black people by the
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Trump Threatens Military Troops to Stop Protesters; Invokes Insurrection Act of 1807
President Trump announced that he would invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 law to halt the protests that have erupted around the country following the murder of George Floyd and employ active military to police the
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Will Smith
Will Smith (born Willard Carroll Smith, Jr.) is a Hollywood actor, producer and musician. He was born and raised in Philadelphia in a Baptist household. His father owned a refrigeration company and his mother was a Philadelphia school board administrator. He attended Overbrook High School where his
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Alabama basketball star, UAB freshman Jamari Smith, 18, drowns
18-year-old incoming University of Alabama at Birmingham freshman, Jamari Smith was swimming with friends, when he grew tired, went under and
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The Strageties of Battle
Grant outwitted Lee by shifting campaign from Cold Harbor to Petersburg. Surprise attack by Gen. W.F. (Baldy) Smith succeeded but Smith hesitated and permitted rebels to reinforce their lines. Gen. Charles J. Paines division spear-headed the attack, knocking mile-wide hole in Petersburg defense and
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7 Summer 2020 Hair Trends To Try Right Now
Finally able to get into their stylist’s chair, many are excited to try bold new looks and summer hair
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Pivotal day for Nakamba
MARVELOUS Nakamba’s stay in the English Premier League is under threat as his team Aston Villa continue to drop points in the race to escape
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Smith, Charles Z. (1927-2016)
On July 18, 1988, Charles Z. Smith became the first African American to serve on the Washington Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the court by Washington’s then Governor Booth Gardner and was subsequently elected to his position on the court for a two-year term in 1988.  Justice Smith was elected
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