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October 3, 2025

Black History Milestones: Timeline, Part 1 (1619 – 1896)

February 9, 2022 admin 0

Part 1 (1619 – 1896) By Black PR Wire In August of 1619, a journal entry recorded that “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were then were bought by English colonists. The […]

A Nation’s Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

July 4, 2020 admin 0

The Fourth of July is celebrated as the anniversary of American independence in 1776. In 1852, Frederick Douglass asked, “Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?” And, to this […]

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