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D.C. Mayor Extends Emergency Center in Response to Trump’s Law Enforcement Push
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an order Tuesday to extend the work of the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center, created in response...
On This Day: Abolitionist and Inventor James Forten Born in 1766
On Sept. 2, 1766, abolitionist and inventor James Forten was born in Philadelphia.
Forten, a free Black man, became a sailmaker and developed a successful...
On This Day: Robert Tanner Freeman Became First Black Harvard Dental Graduate
On Sept. 1, 1867, Robert Tanner Freeman became the first Black graduate of Harvard Dental School, making history as one of the first professionally...
On This Day: Emmett Till’s Murder Sparks Civil Rights Movement
On this day, Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi.
The Black teenager was accused by...
Fed Governor Lisa Cook Sues Trump Administration to Block Removal
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to...