African American Ethnic Heritage

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Minnesota governor signs bill to provide free breakfasts and lunches for school children

March 27, 2023

The Black Panther Party launched the program in...

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Black History Hero: A Black civil war veteran, who later became a police officer, arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding

March 27, 2023

While the nation and much of the world...

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The reparations committee proposes paying each Black person who lives in San Francisco $5 million

March 20, 2023

San Francisco has proposed to give the dwindling...

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The new president of Nigeria earned an accounting degree at Chicago State University

March 6, 2023

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been declared the winner...

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Henrietta Lacks’s statue defeats General Robert E. Lee

January 9, 2023

Henrietta Lacksâ€™ statue will replace that of Confederate...

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John Lewis honored with a U.S. Postal Service stamp

January 9, 2023

The U.S. Postal Service introduced on Tuesday a...