*On this date in 1999, the first African-American chess player attained the rank of International Grand Master. Maurice Ashley, a Jamaican...
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Mon, 1999-03-15
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Sun, 2000-05-28
On this date in 2000 in Sydney, Australia, more than 200,000 demonstrators marched to support a campaign for social justice for Aborigines,...
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Sat, 2000-12-16
On this date in 2000, Colin Powell was appointed as United States Secretary of State. Accepting President-elect George W. Bush's nomination to be...
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Sat, 2000-12-30
On this date in 2000, an African-American sheriff was murdered in Dekalb County, Georgia. Derwin Brown was gunned down in the driveway of his...
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Tue, 2001-05-01
On this date in 2001, justice prevailed in the racial murder of four young girls in Alabama. A former Ku Klux Klan member was found guilty of...
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Fri, 2001-06-08
On this date in 2001, the United States Civil Rights Commission, headed by Mary Frances Berry, issued the results of its six-month long study to...
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Sun, 2001-09-09
On this date in 2001, the University of Alabama sorority system remained segregated. Melody Twilley, a junior at the University, was trying to...
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Tue, 2001-09-11
On this date in 2001, 12 black firefighters died during the 9/11 attack at the World Trade Center in New York City.
They were among the...
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Wed, 2001-09-26
On this date in 2001, a white police officer in Cincinnati, OH, was acquitted in the killing of an unarmed black man. The killing sparked that...
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Fri, 2001-10-12
On this date in 2001, in Oslo, Norway, the United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Annan, of Kumasi,...
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Fri, 2001-11-16
On this date in 2001, the first Black African woman won the Miss World beauty pageant.
Agbani Darego, an 18-year old from Nigeria, was...
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Tue, 2001-12-18
On this date in 2001, a federal judge threw out the death sentence imposed nearly two decades earlier on Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Abu-Jamal is...
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Wed, 2002-03-06
*On this date in 2002, five Black professors boycotted a daylong visit to the University of North Carolina Law School by Supreme Court Justice...
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Fri, 2002-03-22
*On this date in 2002, a Black Nigerian woman convicted of adultery was sentenced to death by stoning.
Amina Lawal Kurami, a divorced...
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Sun, 2002-03-24
*On this date in 2002, the first African-American woman won the Academy Award for best actress. Halle Berry became the first Black woman to win...
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Sat, 2002-03-30
*On this date in 2002, two Black coaches in the NCAA’s Final Four competed against one another for the first time. Indiana University coach Mike...
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Tue, 2002-05-07
African Slavery in the 21st century is the subject of this date's Registry. Yes, slavery of black Africans still continues. Currently, Arab-...
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Wed, 2002-05-15
On this date in 2002, the last of the bomb killers of four Black children in Alabama was convicted.
Closing the books on the deadliest...
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Wed, 2002-05-15
On this date in 2002, President George W. Bush signed the No FEAR Act.
The Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and...
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Mon, 2002-07-01
On this date in 2002, the Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association staged a “prayer vigil and sit in.”
Black farmers from Georgia...