News from Black Communities of Gwinnett County Georgia.
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive Six decades have passed since the untimely demise of Medgar Evers, a prominent civil rights activist whose indomitable spirit and unwavering commitment to equality and justice …
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Photo: Henry P. Taylor A historian and descendant of a slave owner from the “Promised Land” plantation in Gwinnett County has recently voiced concerns about a county official’s alleged attempts …
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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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A Visionary of the Civil Rights Movement The works of The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray played a pivotal role in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. …
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Born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, Frances Cress Welsing was a renowned African-American psychiatrist applauded for her work, “The Isis Papers.” She was the middle child of three …
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Civil War Hero, Political Leader During Reconstruction Robert Smalls was a Civil War hero and prominent black political leader during the Reconstruction Era. He was born in 1839 in Beaufort, …
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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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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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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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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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