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Royal African Company
Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of
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The World's Anti-Slavery Convention
The Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention convenes in London, England.
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Jun
12
1840
Jarrett, Valerie (1956- )
Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, was born on November 14, 1956. She is a Chicago, Illinois attorney, businesswoman, and community leader most prominently known for her role as one of the three campaign co-chairs of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential
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Alicia Keys to host 'Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special'
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Black History Month 2014
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Sommersett, James (c1741-c1772)
James Sommersett was the subject of a landmark legal case in Great Britain, which was the first major step in imposing limits on Trans-Atlantic African slavery. Sommersett entered the pages of history when in 1771, he fled his North American owner, Charles Stewart, while both were living in
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Jun
22
1772
William Plomer
William Plomer , (born Dec. 10, 1903, Transvaal, S.Af.—died Sept. 21, 1973, Lewes, East Sussex, Eng.), South African-born British man of letters, whose writing covered many genres: poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and even opera
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Ancestry of Barack Obama - Family Tree and Genealogy
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Kenyan father and an American mother. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he was the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the first African American
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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but
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Jul
5
1852
CARIFORUM countries set to test ‘specialty foods’ in UK, EU markets
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Protest spreads to Europe
LONDON, England (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in London yesterday against police violence and racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off days of unrest in the United
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Sentamu, John (1949- )
In 2005, John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was installed as the Anglican Church’s Archbishop of York.  Sentamu was born on June 10, 1949, the sixth of 13 children of Rev. John and Ruth Walakira in a village outside Kampala, Uganda. Taught by British missionaries and expatriates who encouraged his
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Jun
10
1949
Craig Arnold
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African American History (slavery)
King Charles I of England grants an asiento, or commercial license, to individuals who then import African slaves to Spanish American colonies, free of customs duties.
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Anti-racism protesters rally around world, topple statue
LONDON, England (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets of European cities yesterday to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, with protesters in the English port of Bristol venting their anger at the country's colonial history by toppling a statue of a 17th-century slave
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William "Bill" Richmond fights and loses to Tom Cribb, English boxing champion
William Bill Richmond fights and loses to Tom Cribb, English boxing champion, Halsham, England; it is the first time a black Americn athlete competes for a world title in any sport.
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0
1805
(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1878), was one of the earliest black abolitionist speakers. Born in Salem, Massachusetts to free black parents, John and Nancy Remond, Charles became an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1838 and traveled with William Lloyd Garrison to the World
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Jul
9
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Burleigh, Harry Thacker (1866-1949)
Harry Thacker Burleigh was the first and one of the most influential of the African American composers who emerged in the U.S. after the Civil War. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1866, Burleigh showed an early passion for music and sang in local church choirs, but was unable to afford formal lessons
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Sep
12
1949
Hamilton takes seat in Senate
ATTORNEY-AT-law Tova Hamilton yesterday took her seat on the Government benches in the Senate after taking the oath of
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Mike Tyson wins Heavyweight Championship
Boxer Mike Tyson becomes the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World by defeating challenger Frank Bruno of England.
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1989
UK 'reluctant' to close beaches over crowds
Beaches will only be closed by the government “reluctantly”, Environment Secretary George Eustice has said – after a major incident was declared as thousands crowded into
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Rutling, Thomas (1854—1915)
Born a slave, Thomas Rutling was one of only four Fisk Jubilee Singers who remained with the company through all three of their pioneering tours between 1872 and 1877. After completing a tour of Europe he refused to return to racist America, he lived the rest of his life in Great Britain as
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Bonetta, Sarah Forbes (1843-1880)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, is best known as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Bonetta was born in 1843 in what is now southwest Nigeria. Her parents names are unknown as are the names of her siblings who were all killed in the 1847
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an African-American singer, pianist and civil rights activist. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was born in Tryon, North Carolina to Mary Kate Waymon and John Divine Waymon. She was the sixth of seventh children and the family was quite poor when Simone was growing
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Civil Rights Groups ‘Pause’ On Facebook Ads | Afro
Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its
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Amina, African Warrior Queen of Zazzau
Known for: warrior queen, extending territory of her people. While stories about her could be legends, scholars believe she was an actual person who ruled in what is now the Zaria province of
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Dan Jacobson - Birthday
Dan Jacobson , (born March 7, 1929, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 12, 2014, London, England), South African-born novelist and short-story writer who wrote with both humour and pathos of the troubled land of his birth and of his eastern European Jewish heritage, though in his later work he
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Mar
7
1929
Earth Today | Water relief for vulnerable farmers in upper Clarendon
More than 68 farmers in drought-stricken communities in the Upper Rio Minho Watershed area of Clarendon have so far received 49,000 gallons of water, with another 48,000 to be delivered over the next three
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Tuskegee Airmen initiated
The Army Air Corps all African American 100th Pursuit Squadron, later designated a fighter squadron, was activated at Tuskegee Institute. The squadron served honorably in England and in other regions of the European continent during World War II.
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Feb
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1942
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