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#NNPA BlackPress1 year ago

COMMENTARY: An Extraordinary Life, Linking Past and Present

NNPA NEWSWIRE — I was trained to fight by my grandmother, Mamie Bland Todd. She would often remind me, “Pessimists are right more often, but optimists...
#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the...
Black History4 years ago

New law allows Fort Bend County to operate and maintain historic cemetery

DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — There was a significant new development in the historic case of the Sugar Land 95. At a news conference Monday, Fort Bend County...

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