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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
Conservative pastor E.W. Jackson, a former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia, told Fox News on Thursday that all clergy should be armed because a white South Carolina shooter attacked a historically black South Carolina church for it’s “biblical views,” not because of racism. Source
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
Charles Johnson is a writer and educator who is best known for his novel Middle Passage (1990). His novel earned a National Book Award for depicting the voyage of a newly freed slave. Johnson was the first African American to receive the award since Ralph Ellison for Invisible Man. Johnson was born in 1948 in […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
Thursday marks one year since famed author Maya Angelou died in her North Carolina home. The inspirational writer was 86 and received numerous accolades throughout her life. To remember Angelou, whose real name was Marguerite Ann Johnson, a list of some of her most riveting poems have been listed below, accompanied with a thought-provoking quote. Check them […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
James Derham (or Durham) is one of history’s first and one of history’s mysteries. He holds the distinction of being the Black person to officially practice medicine in the U.S. What also stands out about this is that he never received a medical degree. Entering the Medical Field On that note, it wasn’t unusual for […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
By Lestey Gist, The Gist of Freedom Celebration: The Abolishment of Slavery Worldwide! The annual observance of 25 March as the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade This year’s theme, “Forever Free: Celebrating Emancipation,” pays tribute to the emancipation of slaves in nations across the world. This […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
Maud Cuney Hare was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Hare was born in Galveston, the daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney, who led the Texas Republican Party during and after the Reconstruction Era, and his wife Adelina, a schoolteacher. In 1913, Cuney-Hare […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
John Wesley Cromwell was a lawyer, teacher, civil servant, journalist, historian, and civil rights activist from Washington DC. He was part of the founding of the Bethel Literary and Historical Society and the American Negro Academy. Cromwell was born September 5, 1846 in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was the youngest of twelve children. His parents were […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
John Edward Bruce, also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce-Grit, was an American journalist, historian, writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist. Bruce was born a in 1856 in Piscataway, Maryland, to enslaved parents Robert and Martha Allen (Clark) Bruce. When he was three years old, his father was sold to a […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou is one of her most famous poems, written in her third volume of poetry called And Still I Rise, published in 1978. The message is about the resiliency, strength, and beauty that black communities continue to show through hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination. In a time when […]
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Feb 22, 2021 02:01 pm
At Black Then, we often see videos that make us stop and think. They frequently reveal information that is not broadcasted to the masses and are created by great talents that are not shown in mainstream media. In a video posted on UCTTl_ygQZc4_kabRgdKR-hA , we learn more about RICHARD PRYOR DEFINES THE CONNECTION BETWEEN RACISM […]
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