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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

George Floyd’s brother Philonise recounts moment he heard Derek Chauvin verdict by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

April 21, 2021

Young eyewitness who testified in Chauvin trial speaks about guilty verdict l GMA https://youtu.be/bigIvlWk13Q Judeah…
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On This Day: Titanic Sank in 1912

April 15, 2021

The Titanic's Only Black Family Black passengers add another facet to Titanic story, Joseph Laroche,…
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Women History Month 2021

March 21, 2021

Lawrence E. Walker on WAOK.org Historian, Filmmaker, Photographer, Reseacher and Writer Lawrence E. Walker was…
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Tishaura Jones elected St. Louis’s First Black Female Mayor by Mike Jordan

April 07, 2021

Tishaura Jones defeats Cara Spencer in St. Louis mayoral race https://youtu.be/Kw6O7o1LZY4 Treasurer Tishaura Jones defeated…
By Lawrence Walker
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NCAA Women’s Basketball: Final Four Includes Two Teams Led by Black Women for the First Time by Paulina Jayne Isaac

April 01, 2021

Opinion Black coaches Dawn Staley Adia Barnes making women's Final Four https://youtu.be/TXta-miGWVI SAN ANTONIO -- Everyone…
By Lawrence Walker
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Kim Janey sworn in as 1st Black, 1st woman mayor of Boston by Aaron katersky and Emily Shapiro

March 24, 2021

Kim Janey sworn in as first woman, first Black mayor of Boston https://youtu.be/Wo0ldbf0h3E Kim Janey…
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Cicely Tyson, Pioneering Hollywood Icon, Dies at 96 by

January 29, 2021

Hollywood legend Cicely Tyson recounts life, career in new memoir https://youtu.be/f6US9geaSmA 96-year-old stage and screen…
By Lawrence Walker
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