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Downtown Santa Monica CA and the coastline of the Pacific Ocean. By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 23, 2024
In 1957, Silas White, a Black entrepreneur purchased a valuable plot of land in Santa Monica, CA. White wanted to >NBC Los Angeles reported.
White had already started renovations, but unfortunately, his dream would never become a reality. A year after White’s purchase, the city seized the land, citing eminent domain, which “refers to
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New Haitian President Jovenel Moise is seen with his wife at the Te Deum during his inauguration ceremony at the National Palace, after receiving his sash in a ceremony at the Haitian Parliament, in Port-au-Prince, on February 7, 2017. Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti’s 58th president, ending a protracted electoral crisis that had created a vacuum of power in the impoverished, disaster-prone Caribbean nation. Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter who has never
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 22, 2024
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is set to become the second HBCU in the country to have a veterinarian school.
The state of
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 22, 2024
Last week, plantation wedding venue.
“So pretty! So much history! The photos will look great! People said the same about plantation weddings, which have been under scrutiny in recent years with wedding planning sites like Pinterest and the Knot promising to stop glorifying them,” The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote.
But is having a wedding at a prison really that problematic? Some would argue yes, because prisons are
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By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 21, 2024
Many of us may be familiar with the story of the Underground Railroad as a northern route that enslaved Africans used to escape and find freedom. A largely untold story, however, is about the journey to freedom for many enslaved people from Texas to Mexico and Silvia Hector Webber’s important role in helping them get there.
Now, the new exhibit “Freedom Papers: Evidence of Emancipation” at
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By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 21, 2024
Many of us may be familiar with the story of the Underground Railroad as a northern route that enslaved Africans used to escape and find freedom. A largely untold story, however, is about the journey to freedom for many enslaved people from Texas to Mexico and Silvia Hector Webber’s important role in helping them get there.
Now, the new exhibit “Freedom Papers: Evidence of Emancipation” at
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 21, 2024
As a teenager, Jarrett Adams was wrongfully convicted and served 10 years in prison, even though he did not commit the crime. Since being released, Adams has earned his law degree and co-founded the nonprofit Life After Justice, fighting to ensure others don’t endure the same fate.
And with the approaching presidential election, Adams believes President Biden should prioritize wrongful convictions as part of his
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By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 21, 2024
Special honors are being bestowed on a long-time civil rights activist in New York.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the Dr. Hazel Dukes Fellowship and Black Leadership Institute (BLI) at The State University of New York (SUNY).
Dukes, 91, is president of the NAACP New York State Conference and has fought housing discrimination for decades. According to CBS News, The Dr. Hazel Dukes Fellowship is designed to identify
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Downtown Fayetteville in Cumberland County, North Carolina By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 20, 2024
The Hodges are one of the first Black families to own land in Cumberland County, NC, and they want people to stop illegally dumping in their family cemetery, “where both veterans and Black people born during slavery are buried,” ABC11 reports.
The Hodges family acquired this land in the early 1900s, and has been using this site to