Samuel L. Gravely Jr.
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. (June 4, 1922 – October 22, 2004) was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, th ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2023 at 9:46PM
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On This Day Amendment, abolishing slavery in US
On This Day in history: House passes 13th amendment, abolishing slavery in US
Detroit
BY SARA POWERS
(CBS DETROIT) - On this day in 1865, the House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2023 at 8:57PM
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This Day in Black History: Jan. 31, 1943
Broadway star Etta Moten Barnett became the first Black person to sing at the White House.
Broadway star and film actress Etta Moten Barnett sang at the birthday party for President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
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Coretta Scott King
American civil-rights activist
Coretta Scott King, née Coretta Scott, (born April 27, 1927, Marion, Alabama, U.S.—died January 30, 2006, Rosarito, Mexico), American civil rights activist who was the wife of Martin Luther King, ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2023 at 2:29PM
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James Baldwin
American author
James Baldwin, in full James Arthur Baldwin, (born August 2, 1924, New York, New York—died December 1, 1987, Saint-Paul, France), American essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject ...
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JACKIE ROBINSON FIRST MODERN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYER BORN
January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972
Jackie Robinson breaks "Color Barrier" and Becomes First Modern Day African American Baseball Player for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson bec ...
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Wrestling Against Evil Part 2
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephes ...
Posted Monday, January 30th 2023 at 8:27PM
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For Immediate Release From Kingdom-Levine-Oliver Publisher, Inc.!
Table of Contents
THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS: Statement on Tyre Nichols; Anguish And Action
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN NEWS: Statement on Tyre Nichols
U.S. Department Of Educat ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM HIS ROYAL MAJESTY CO-COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN!
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Tyre Nichols Case
Jill and I extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of Tyre Nichols and the entire ...
Posted Monday, January 30th 2023 at 11:19AM
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For Immediate Release From Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation!
D’Zhane Parker, a Board member for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation released the following statement regarding the video footage released of the brutal murd ...
Posted Monday, January 30th 2023 at 10:36AM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM HIS MAJESTY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!
The vicious, unjustified beating of Tyre Nichols and his ultimate death at the hands of five Memphis police officers is just the latest, painful reminder of ho ...
Posted Monday, January 30th 2023 at 9:59AM
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When the officers are Black: Tyre Nichols' death raises tough questions about race in policing
Story by Rick Jervis and Jessica Guynn, US TODAY
In the long sequence of high-profile deaths of Black men at the hands of American police, the death of ...
Posted Saturday, January 28th 2023 at 7:21PM
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#TyreeNichols - #PoliceBrutality #PoliceAccountability #Atlanta #NAACP #JusticeforTyree
Worst form of Police Brutality - #America when will this END! \
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BLUES SIGNER BOBBY ''BLUE'' BLAND BORN
January 27, 1930
Robert Calvin Bland (born Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.
Bland developed a sound that m ...
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces New Law To Prosecute White Supremacists: Here's What It Would Mean
Story by Christopher Rhodes •
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has introduced a new law in the House of Representatives to tackle racist violence ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2023 at 11:59AM
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The story of one of Chicago’s first Black power couples, Etta Moten and Claude Barnett
By Ron Grossman
It was written in the stars for Etta Moten and Claude Barnett to be married on the fly. Professional lives made theirs a commuting romance for ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2023 at 10:34AM
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How did Mahalia Jackson die? Devastating last days of 'Queen of Gospel' plagued by ill-health
By Beverly White
Mahalia Jackson passed away at a relatively young age of 60 on January 27, 1972. However, she made sure those 60 years were meaningful. ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2023 at 10:23AM
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This Day in Black History: Jan. 27, 1766
Pierre Toussaint, a former slave from the Caribbean, became one of the noted Black philanthropists in the United States.
He was born in the then French colony of Haiti on Jan. 27, 1766, and was brought t ...
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Brett Kavanaugh praises newcomer Ketanji Brown Jackson as a 'thoroughly prepared' justice who's 'off to a great start'
Story by oseddiq@insider.com (Oma Seddiq) •
Justice Brett Kavanaugh praised fellow Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
"She's ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2023 at 10:47PM
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31 Black History Facts You May Not Have Learned in School
Story by McKenzie Jean-Philippe, Jane Burnett •
From the hidden figures who made an impact, essential Black inventors, change-making civil rights leaders, award-winning authors, and showst ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2023 at 10:00PM
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