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today.hellonews.site - The portraits of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass hang on the walls of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on September 24, 20…Tweeted by @celebritykimdot...
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laprogressive.com - A year before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, the first group of enslaved Africans depicted as “20 and odd Negroes” arrived sometime during the final week of August to the Virginia colony of Jamestown…Tweeted by @coopmike48 https:/...
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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) Academic Goals and Instructional Improvement Committee has officially approved the Pre-Pharmacy Pathway Program at historically Black Xavier University in New Orleans The new program is...
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Dexter Smith is the new associate dean for admissions at the law school of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Prior to his appointment, he served as the assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at the Campbell Universi...
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simonandschuster.com - The World’s Fastest Man PROLOGUE Madison Square Garden, 1896 On the clear, brisk Saturday afternoon of December 5, 1896, an unusual pair of men strode to New York City’s Madison Square Garden, where …Tweeted by @ScribnerBooks h...
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Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors star and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, has announced that he will help Howard University re-launch its golf program. Starting in the 2020-21 academic year, Howard will field men’s and women’s golf...
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abhmuseum.org - “Is it true that ‘Anna’ stands for ‘Ain’t No Niggers Allowed’?” I asked at the convenience store in Anna, Illinois, where I had stopped to buy coffee. “Yes,” the clerk replied. “That’s sad, isn’t it,…Tweeted by @vantoinettew https://t...
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benjerry.com - America was built by enslaved people. They built the US Capitol. They built Wall Street. They built the White House. Slavery wasn’t just some kind of unfortunate regional quirk—it was an economic eng…Tweeted by @benandjerrys https://tw...
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actifypress.com - Both of my parents descended from slaves and grew up in the Jim Crow south, in different states. They both headed north as part of the Great Migration looking for a new and better life. Under the har…Tweeted by @princss6 https://twi...
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tennessean.com - I’m 67. Male. White. Have lived my whole life in the deep South. I am also of the last one or two generations who can remember life in the South during the Jim Crow Era. This was a time when local an…Tweeted by @Tennessean https://tw...
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wordsinthebucket.com - “Come listen all you galls and boys, I’m going to sing a little song, My name is Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb’ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow.” “Jim Crow”, or “Jump Jim …Tweeted by @WordsBucket htt...
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theblackdetour.com - In 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram and her two sons were given the death penalty for murdering a white landowner in rural Georgia. The case was a perfect example of Cold War politics of racial protest and assis…Tweeted by @pittsburgh22_at h...
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libcom.org - Black soldiers stationed to guard the construction of Camp Logan in Texas mutinied over racist treatment from local law enforcement and civilians. The all-black 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry – a unit …Tweeted by @wrkclasshistory https://t...
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Even though I am not transitioning I love seeing information on transitioning and any tips someone might have because I remember how hard it was for me and how much I needed just anything to get me through the hard parts. The best person to l...
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flcourier.com - DR. GLENN C. ALTSCHULER SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER Review of “Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York,’’ 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell. W.W. Norton & Co. 270 pages. $27.95. In 1835, …
