National Negro Business League Founded By Booker T. Washington
On August 23, 1900, Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business League (NNBL) in Boston, Massachusetts. The organization received support from Andrew Carnegie. Washing ...
Posted Wednesday, August 23rd 2023 at 10:51AM
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UNESCO has chosen Aug. 23 to commemorate the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition, but the historical significance of that day may escape many. On the night that spanned August 22 and 23, 1791, slave rebels in ...
Posted Wednesday, August 23rd 2023 at 10:30AM
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Kobe Bean Bryant ( August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as ...
Posted Wednesday, August 23rd 2023 at 9:43AM
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For Immediate Release From Autism Research Institute!
Results from a study that focused on transition to adulthood in Autism will be presented, including considerations for advancing service access and navigation, employment support, and post- ...
Posted Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 at 2:05PM
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Biden-Harris Administration Launches Most Affordable Repayment Plan Ever, Transforming Income-Driven Repayment by Cutting Undergraduate Payments in Half and Preventing Unpaid Interest Accumulation.
Administrat ...
Posted Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 at 11:19AM
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Regina Annette Taylor (born August 22, 1960) is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award. In July 2017, Taylor was announced as the new Denzel Washing ...
Posted Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 at 9:43AM
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Dr. Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American revolutionary and political activist. Newton was most notable for being founder of the Black Panther Party where he operated the organization as the leader. Newton ...
Posted Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 at 9:14AM
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On This Day In Black History "John Lee Hooker"
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-styl ...
Posted Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 at 8:25AM
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August 21: #Black August Day of Black Power
August 21, 2021
Black August honors Black freedom fighters — past and present — many of whom were killed by the state or imprisoned for defending Black lives.
August 21st itself marks three key mom ...
Posted Monday, August 21st 2023 at 9:30PM
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William James "Count" Basie ( August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first r ...
Posted Monday, August 21st 2023 at 11:55AM
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Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He worked as an active filmmaker into the 2000s. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), wa ...
Posted Monday, August 21st 2023 at 11:47AM
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Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, m ...
Posted Monday, August 21st 2023 at 11:24AM
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For Immediate Release From Kingdom-Levine-Oliver, Publisher, Inc.!
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THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS: Maui Wildfires
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN NEWS: Biden Celebrates His Climate Law’s First Anniversary
COLLEGE PROMISE NEWS: College Promise ...
Posted Saturday, August 19th 2023 at 1:01PM
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Charles Frank Bolden Jr. (born August 19, 1946) is a former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
He graduated from the United States Naval Acad ...
Posted Saturday, August 19th 2023 at 8:55AM
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Benjamin Banneker was an African American astronomer, mathematician, and surveyor who published his first almanac in 17921. The almanac was published every year for close to a decade and was famous for providing a host of useful information at the ...
Posted Saturday, August 19th 2023 at 8:45AM
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THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS: Maui Wildfires
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN NEWS: Biden Celebrates His Climate Law’s First Anniversary
COLLEGE PROMISE NEWS: College Prom ...
Posted Friday, August 18th 2023 at 1:20PM
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For Immediate Release From Kingdom-Levine-Oliver, Publisher, Inc.!
THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS: Maui Wildfires
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN NEWS: Biden Celebrates His Climate Law’s First Anniversary
COLLEGE PROMISE NEWS: College Promise Careers Ins ...
Posted Friday, August 18th 2023 at 1:18PM
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What the Bible Says About Reparations for Slavery
Opinion by Gerard Leval
The case for paying reparations to descendants of slaves has been gaining momentum nationwide. In 2019, Evanston, Ill., became the first municipality to adopt such a progra ...
Posted Friday, August 18th 2023 at 9:39AM
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Freeman calls for people to ’embrace’ black history and ‘move on’
Story by Hannah Roberts
Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman has said that black history needs to be embraced so that people can “move on”.
The 86-year-old is part of a new documentar ...
Posted Friday, August 18th 2023 at 9:32AM
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Bill Barr rejects Trump's plea that it's unfair to try him while he's running: 'You don't get immunity' by being a presidential candidate.
Bill Barr said Trump shouldn't get avoid trials simply because he's running for president.
Trump and his de ...
Posted Friday, August 18th 2023 at 9:17AM
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Kelvin Mercer (born August 17, 1969), also known by his stage name Posdnuos, Plug 1 and occasionally Pos, is an American rapper and record producer from The Bronx, New York, best known for his work as one third of the hip hop trio De La Soul. Throu ...
Posted Thursday, August 17th 2023 at 5:55PM
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known a ...
Posted Thursday, August 17th 2023 at 5:48PM
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An Alarming US Trend
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Suicide is a major contributor to premature death in the United States, especially among people aged 10–34, fo ...
Posted Thursday, August 17th 2023 at 8:11AM
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