Celebrating Black Business Owners Everywhere!
This week we celebrated Small Business Day, a day we take a moment to appreciate the heart and hustle of the entrepreneurs who form the core of our communities. Despite …
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Olympian Tommie Smith Releases Graphic Memoir on Raising the Fist
Despite being denounced by the sports press in 1968, he has emerged as a hero. “This is my world record wall,” said Tommie Smith, 78, navigating his 6-foot-4 frame through …
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Robert Parris Moses: Influential Black Leader of Civil Rights Struggle
A Black History Month Notable Everyone Should Know Biography | Stanford University | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute Born: January 23, 1935 Although he avoided publicity …
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Elder Statesmen : An Era Is Passing for Five Authors Known for Reclaiming the Role of Blacks in History
BY YEMI TOURE | MARCH 3, 1991 | 12 AM PT | TIMES STAFF WRITER It was only 8:30 on a Friday evening at the carpeted, cozy Eso Won bookstore in South-Central …
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Gwinnett County Transit System Re-branded to ‘Ride Gwinnett’
Gwinnett County’s public transit system has a new name and look. County leaders changed the system’s name to “Ride Gwinnett” this year. The bus system was called Gwinnett County Transit …
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What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Economic Justice?
Photo: Fast food workers and union members carry signs as they stage a protest outside of a McDonald’s restaurant in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 12, 2018, the 50th anniversary of …
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Reversing the ‘Devil’s Bargain’: Honor Dr. King by Fulfilling His Dream of Economic Justice
By REV. CANON ROSA LEE HARDEN for Mississippi Free Press Growing up in northeast Mississippi in the 1960s, I knew practically nothing about Martin Luther King Jr. But by the …
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The Nativity from an African American view
Article Photo by Eric Koch — Langston Hughes’ Broadway adaptation of ‘Black Nativity’ in 1962. Langston Hughes’ Broadway adaptation of ‘Black Nativity’ in 1962. The birth of a child is …
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Warnock Beats Walker in Georgia, Padding Dems’ Senate Edge
A reprint from Politico written by Brittany Gibson and Natalie Allison | 12/06/2022 The Democratic senator won a full six-year term. Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP challenger Herschel Walker …
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Georgia Runoff Voting on Saturday Moving Forward
A Georgia appeals court ruling on Monday means that counties can offer early voting this coming Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican …
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