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Hundreds of couples toting AR-15 rifles packed a Unification church in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to have their marriages blessed and their weapons celebrated as “rods of iron” that could have saved lives in a recent […]

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Black History Month

February 28, 2013: Black Lives Matter

On this day in 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of megalomaniac George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin the preceding February. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations […]

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Black History Month

February 27, 1872: Charlotte E. Ray

Charlotte E. Ray was the first Black American female lawyer in the United States. Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. She was also the first female admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and the first woman admitted to […]

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Black History Month

February 13, 1920: Rube Foster

Andrew “Rube” Foster  was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues.  Most notably, he organized the Negro National League on this day in 1920, the first long-lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers which operated from 1920 to 1931. […]