today in black history

January 17, 2025

Pioneering Black newspaper publisher Carl Murphy of the Baltimore Afro-American is born in 1889.

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POSTED: March 29, 2012, 12:00 am

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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the historic 1972 Gary, Indiana national Black political convention that set the stage for the presidential campaigns of Shirley Chisholm, Rev. Jesse Jackson and the eventual election of Barack Obama to the presidency.





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