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Black History 365 - A place where Black history isn't just celebrated one month out of the year but everyday.

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"If you love your thin lips, why are you going to the doctor getting collagen injected and telling me my lips are too big."

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”It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Happy Birthday to Aaliyah!!!

Born January 16, 1979, she would have turned 47 today.

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On January 16, 1986, The Cosby Show aired a snippet of a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Never forget that Black people were still enslaved on July 4th, 1776

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Mahoney was one of forty-two students enrolled in the class of 1878 at the Massachusetts Medical and Dental Hospital for Nurses Training School in Boston, MA. She is believed to have been one of the three students in her class who completed the rigorous 16-month nursing program.

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Mary Eliza Mahoney, America’s first Black graduate nurse, was born on May 7, 1845

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Although other Black women had worked as nurses in the past, Mahoney was the first Black nurse to complete a nursing program. She was also the first African-American woman to earn a nursing license.

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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

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On Dec. 31, 1972 Roberto Clemente passed away in a plane crash while traveling at great risk in response to urgent requests to deliver help to earthquake devastated Nicaragua

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Comedian Richard Pryor was born on December 1, 1940

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Consolidated White River Academy girls’ basketball team (1939)

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Civil rights movement in color

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Alice Coachman became the first Black American woman to win an Olympic gold medal on August 7, 1948

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A group of antipoverty organizations and Black organizations initiated the Watts Summer Festival in 1966 as a way to focus the Watts community on celebrating Black heritage and culture annually on the anniversary of the Watts riots

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NYC Judge Overturns Convictions For Three Men Found Guilty on ‘Questionable’ Police Tactics In Getting Confessions For Putting Subway Token Clerk on Fire  https://t.co/44qxFHGj68

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Oliver Toussaint Jackson established Dearfield settlement in 1910 https://t.co/LAWTI0ISUq

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‘The Kissing Case’: Two Black Boys Falsely Accused Of Rape After A White Girl Kissed Them on The Cheek in 1958 https://t.co/qULR4N8pBX

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On July 25, 1946, two Black couples were lynched near the Moore’s Ford Bridge 60 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia. George W. Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger, and Dorothy Malcom (seven months pregnant) were accosted by a mob of white men as they headed to their home.

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On July 24, 1972, the Washington Star newspaper in Washington, D.C., published an article exposing details of an ongoing syphilis experiment that withheld diagnosis information and treatment from Black men in Alabama in order to study the effects of the disease