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There’s a new monument of #MartinLutherKing in Atlanta – on the very street that bears his name. The 12-foot statue of #MLK was created by artist Basil Watson. pic.twitter.com/4qGyBPjuOP — City of Atlanta, GA (@CityofAtlanta) January 15, 2021 Atlanta...
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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, 1955, and consequently got arrested for violating the local segregation laws, the Civil Rights Movement emerged like a mounting thu...
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Lt. j.g. Graham Edward Martin. (The photograph was provided courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute.) When you travel down Fall Creek Parkway near 16th Street, you’ll see a sign for the Lt. j.g. Graham Edward Martin Park. This park, previously known...
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President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout. Called the “A...
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Photo: YouTube The NBA has had numerous high-profile players who have stood up in the name of racial injustice and social change. This week, the Milwaukee Bucks—no strangers to making a stand—announced a partnership with The Lonely Entrepreneur platf...
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Photos: YouTube The People’s Organization For Progress annual Martin Luther King march will be held on Saturday, January 16, 2021, 12:00 noon beginning at the Lincoln Statue, 12 Springfield Avenue, in Newark, New Jersey. The march is being held to c...
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Photos: YouTube The People’s Organization For Progress annual Martin Luther King march will be held on Saturday, January 16, 2021, 12:00 noon beginning at the Lincoln Statue, 12 Springfield Avenue, in Newark, New Jersey. The march is being held to c...
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Photos Wikimedia Commons\YouTube The New York City Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus (BLAC) released the following statement after New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she was filing a lawsuit against the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Bl...
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The United Way of Will County, in conjunction with the United Way of Illinois is launching a ‘21 Week Equity Challenge’ this week. Following a year of unrest and strife, this free, online learning program will provide lessons and resources for Illino...
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Atlanta entrepreneur Gocha Hawkins celebrated the opening of her second location for Gocha’s Breakfast Bar on Tuesday, Jan. 13. Hawkins opened her first restaurant in January 2019, on Cascade Rd. in the City of South Fulton. Gocha’s Break...
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By Sister Tarpley NDG Religion Editor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s messages had an enormous effect on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a pivotal role in ending...
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By Charlene Crowell Although a New Year has begun, many American consumers and small businesses continue to feel a financial hangover from the challenges of 2020. As the global pandemic reveals a still-soaring American infection rate, the nation has...
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Black Is Beautiful DFW, a series of black-and-white portraits by Yesi Fortuna of Fort Lion Studio, will be on display at Galleria Dallas Feb. 1-29. The series was created as a way to show the studio’s solidarity with the Black community in an artisti...
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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging law enforcement to vigilantly work to sniff out potential violent plots by insurrectionists and other nefarious actors. The mayor joined others who expressed grow...
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A Dallas man killed by police in his own apartment will be memorialized in the naming of a major downtown thoroughfare. On Wednesday, Jan. 13, the Dallas City Council unanimously voted in approval of the renaming of a part of Lamar Street, to Botham...
