Beyond the Cookout: Black Folks Started Memorial Day! 
The African-American history of the federal holiday has been nearly wiped from public memory, the history books and most official accounts.
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Black History
Pastor Simmons, Pastor Newkirk Address Youth at Sigma “Combating Community Gun Violence” Symposium
The Buffalo alumnae chapter of the International Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., the Eta Rho Sigma chapter recently hosted its
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“OUR HISTORY DID NO BEGIN IN CHAINS…IT WILL NOT END IN CHAINS…”
The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were
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FAMILY SEEKS JUSTICE FOR SIRGIO
pictured Sirgio in his hospital bed. Members of his family, mom, Aurielle brother Elias, sister Aurielle Austin broke down in
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Baskin Re-Elected Chair of the Erie County Legislature
Fourth straight Victory for Baskin, as Her Political Star Continues to rise. Both Baskin and Tim Meyers, who was re-elected
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Remembering The Heroes Who Fought to Save Black Wall Street
One of the worst race massacres in the nation’s history occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma over a 14-hour period May 31-June
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Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center Launches New Virtual Tours and “Freedom Seekers” Curriculum
“Black History Now” Social Justice Education Beyond Black History Month The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (NFUGRR) and the
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God Wouldn’t Want Segregated Sanctuaries
BLACK PEOPLE, both free and enslaved, relied on their faith to hold onto their humanity under the most inhumane circumstances.
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The Frederick Douglass Monument
Ten thousand people witnessed the unveiling of a bronze monument honoring Frederick Douglass in Rochester on June 9, 1899.New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt delivered the keynote
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U.N.I.A. MANIFESTO: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
The greatest mass movement of Black people in history remains that of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities
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