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Reginald F. Lewis: A Wall Street TitanBy Tamara Shiloh

Inner City News - November 9, 2022

By Tamara Shiloh In 1965, a select group of Black students participated in a summer school program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and held at...

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Sgt. William Henry ‘Black Death’ Johnson, celebrated ‘Hellfighter’

Inner City News - November 3, 2022

By Herb Boyd | Amsterdam News Black Americans, particularly those interested in the military with family members having served in the armed forces, will welcome...

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Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, teacher, author, and activist

Inner City News - November 3, 2022

by: Herb Boyd | Amsterdam News Of the two women, Addie Waites Hunton and Kathryn Johnson, who provided the world with an insightful portrait of...

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The New Haven Black Panther Trials

Inner City News - October 19, 2022

By Yohuru Williams | Connecticut Explored In the summer of 1970 the people of New Haven, Connecticut braced for the start of what local journalists...

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William B. Gould—A Black contraband’s account of the Civil War

Inner City News - October 11, 2022

When Professor William Gould IV’s father told him to take a close look at his diary, he discovered a priceless family heirloom. Not only...

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Actor Laurence Criner, an early matinee idol and leading man

Inner City News - October 11, 2022

If I had paid closer attention to “The Duke Is Tops,” the 1938 film starring Ralph Cooper and Nina Mae McKinney, I would have...

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The St. Augustine Movement (1963–1964)

Inner City News - September 28, 2022

By Tamara Shiloh, The Oakland Post It was the spring of 1964. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian LeadershipConference were preparing to...

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Black Veterans call-out National Museum of African American History for its indifference toward Military History

Inner City News - September 22, 2022

Oakland, CA…. Black Veteran Leaders and representatives willmeet at the National Museum of African American History inWashington DC., on September 30, 2022, at 11:...

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