This Week In Black History
Written by Robert N. Taylor
For the Week of August 12-18
August 12
1890—This is generally considered the day that the systematic and nominally legal exclusion of Blacks from the political life of the South began. It was the day that the Mississippi Constitutional Convention began. Barred by the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution from excluding Blacks by race, the convention instead adopted a host of strategies including literacy or so-called “Education Tests” specifically designed to prevent Blacks from voting. The tests required reading and interpreting the Constitution. Blacks would be given difficult passages to interpret while Whites were either exempted or given easy passages. Soon, most Southern states adopted the so-called Mississippi Plan to exclude Blacks from voting. The racist plan was effective. In one Mississippi County, for example, there were 30,000 Blacks but only 175 were eligible to vote.
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OPHELIA MITCHELL, ERNEST E. JUST, MARCUS GARVEY
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Ky. girl’s letter shared with nation
Written by Associated Press
by William Croyle
The Kentucky Enquirer
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP)—Ten-year-old Na’Dreya Lattimore is not happy with the country’s education system, and she let President Barack Obama know it.
Last Thursday, the president shared her sentiments with the nation.
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| SPECIAL LETTER—Na’Dreya Lattimore, 10, of Covington, Ky., holds a copy of the letter she sent to President Barack Obama, as well as his letter in response, July 28.
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Na’Dreya, a fifth-grader at Sixth District Elementary School, wrote the president a letter in December. She received a hand-written response from him in May, and he referred to her letter at the end of his education reform speech during the National Urban League Centennial Conference in Washington, D.C.
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It’s over! People using social media to end relationships
Written by Courier Newsroom
by J. Williams-Gibson
For New Pittsburgh Courier
For New Pittsburgh Courier
(INDIANAPOLIS, IN)—Once upon a time, when couples decided to end their relationship, they did so face-to-face. The break up rules and norms have somewhat changed. Today, some individuals are ending their relationships by using other, and arguably tactless, ways to say goodbye—social media.
Just ask Andrew Locke.
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Rangel, Waters fight ethics charges as Black support mounts
Written by Associated Press
WASHINGTON (NNPA) —As U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., prepares to fight 13 ethics charges, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, another leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus, has also come under scrutiny.
A House panel has announced that Rep. Maxine Waters has been charged with violating ethics rules, setting the stage for a second election-season trial for a longtime Democratic lawmaker and adding to the party’s political woes.
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REP. CHARLES RANGEL
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The charges against Waters, a 10-term California congresswoman, focus on whether she broke the rules in requesting federal help for a bank where her husband was a board member and owned stock. She immediately denied the charges.
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This Week In Black History
Written by Robert N. Taylor
For the Week of Aug. 7-12
August 7
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ANGELA DAVIS
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1970—Four people, including the presiding judge, were killed during a courthouse shootout in Marin County, Calif. A group of Blacks led by 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson staged an assault on the courthouse in a bid to free Jackson’s brother—famed Soledad Brother and militant activist George Jackson. Jonathan was among those who died. Professor and communist Angela Davis was charged with providing the guns for the bloody escape attempt but would later be found not guilty.
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