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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…

Sankofa African American 3D Museum (Launching Later This Year 2021)

July 06, 2021

https://youtu.be/fRL3qcSwA24 Sunday, January 31, 2021 @ 3 pm via Zoom Presenter: Rick Geffken, Author &…
By Lawrence Walker
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Miami Condo Collapse: 40 Years Old by Haley Victory Smith

June 29, 2021

99 Still Missing After South Florida Condo Collapse https://youtu.be/lSPFPRXsIkI VIDEO: A fire official says 35…
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The Tulsa Massacre wasn’t an isolated event by Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN

May 31, 2021

https://youtu.be/H8PjCQIrbDk One hundred years and a day after one of the country's bloodiest massacres of the…
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Zaila Avant-Garde Spells Her Way To Victory as the first African American by Maggie Astor and Maria Cramer

July 09, 2021

Zaila Avant-Garde wins Scripps National Spelling Bee https://youtu.be/Yckpd1shcHc Zaila Avant-Garde, a 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana,…
By Lawrence Walker
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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…
By Lawrence Walker
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