Bill Barr Installs Outside Prosecutor To Review Case Against Michael Flynn | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC ...
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Juanita J. Craft
Juanita Jewel Craft is an American civil rights advocate and politician. She is an American Hero.
Craft was born Juanita Jewel Shanks in Round Rock, Texas on February 9, 1902. She was the granddaughter of former slaves, and the ...
Posted Friday, February 14th 2020 at 2:43PM
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Nannie Helen Burroughs
Quick Facts
Significance: Educator and activist
Place of Birth: Orange, VA
Date of Birth: 1879/1880
Place of Death: Washington, DC Date of Death: 1961
Around 1880, Nannie Helen Burroughs was born to a formerly ...
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Thomas Calhoun Walker
Thomas Calhoun Walker was a teacher, lawyer, and government official. Known as Virginia’s “Black Governor”, Calhoun was the first African American to practice law in Gloucester County. He is an American Hero.
Walker was bo ...
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Cathay Williams
Quick Facts
Significance: Private Cathay Williams was the only woman to serve in the US Army as a Buffalo Soldier
Place of Birth: Independence, Missouri
Date of Birth: September 1842
Place of Death: Trinidad, Colorado D ...
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Eighty-Five Years of Courage, Valor & Heroism
They joined for a better life and to fight for their country. They served valiantly on foreign battlefields and in the face of egregious racism at home. Explore the places throughout the country that t ...
Posted Friday, February 14th 2020 at 2:12PM
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Monthly Theme: Commemorating 400 Years of African American History
The first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America were brought to Virginia more than 400 years ago. Despite constant adversity throughout American history, African Amer ...
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This Black History Month, let’s focus on the present
By Colbert I. King Columnist Jan. 31, 2020 at 3:29 p.m. CST
When I was coming along, the second week in February was called “Negro History Week” — a time set aside to recognize and celebrate pa ...
Posted Friday, February 14th 2020 at 1:37PM
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YOUR WORDS: I told them that when you walk by faith and not by sight your faith is blind.
MY REPLY: “We walk by faith not by sight” actually is a quote from the King James Version of the Bible, from 2 Corinthians 5:7. It is a good translation. Wh ...
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Holder Blasts AG Barr 'Aberrant' Behavior, DOJ Official Warns Of 'Tuesday Night Massacre' | MSNBC ...
Posted Thursday, February 13th 2020 at 5:22PM
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Authenticity During Black History Month – Some Brands Make The Mark, While Others Criticized In Digital Backlash - By Jacqueline Schneider
In recent years, Black History Month has become a staple for brands – a time to honor the history of black A ...
Posted Wednesday, February 12th 2020 at 4:34PM
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Martin Luther King Jr. Biography
Who Was Martin Luther King Jr?
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.
Among his m ...
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Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom | NPT
A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, John F. Baker Jr., has written the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots.
When Baker was in the seventh grade, he s ...
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Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win Wimbledon
On this day in 1975, Arthur Ashe defeats the heavily favored Jimmy Connors to become the first black man ever to win Wimbledon, the most coveted championship in tennis.
Arthur Ashe began ...
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Ruth E. Carter From "Black Panther" Is The First Black Person To Win An Oscar For Costume Design
"Marvel may have created the first black superhero, but through costume design, we turned him into an African king." BY Michael Blackmon BuzzFeed News ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 5:40PM
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Educating Our People To Who We Are As A People Begins The Journey
Let me share these words of wisdom so, that I may enlighten and enrich your thinking because you are somebody. Knowing Who You Are means that person can acknowledge God and what he ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 5:11PM
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United States Presidential Election of 2008
United States government
On November 4, 2008, after a campaign that lasted nearly two years, Americans elected Illinois senator Barack Obama their 44th president. The result was historic, as Obama, a f ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 3:50PM
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Charleston Church Shooting: White Gunman Kills 9 At Historic Black Church
By Kelly Chen
A heartbroken nation’s tension turned to mourning Thursday afternoon as news broke that the suspected gunman in an attack on a Charleston, South Carolina, chu ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 3:42PM
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What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot.
By Kevin M. Kruse AUG. 14, 2019
Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the United States. Drivers there average two hours each week mired in gridlock, hung up at coun ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 3:15PM
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