This Week In Black History
Written by Courier Newsroom
ELLA FITZGERALD
For the week of April 24-30
April 24
1867—The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is held at the Maxwell House in Nashville, Tenn. The White supremacist organization and its various offshoots would go on to launch a wave of terror, which would result in death and injury to thousands of African-Americans over the years. The Klan would remain the nation’s most powerful anti-Black terrorist organization for the next 70 years. The first chapter, however, was actually formed a year earlier in Pulaski, Tenn. Most of the early Klan members were former soldiers of the defeated Confederate Army from the Civil War. The group’s initial aim was to spread fear among Blacks and prevent them from voting. But as the organization grew, it expanded into anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner activities. The first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forest.
1944—The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. Over the years, the fundraising activities of the UNCF would result in thousands of college educations for African-Americans.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 11:49
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Tattoo parenting, Obama-style
Written by CNN
FIRST PARENTS--President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk from the White House with their daughters Sasha Obama, second from left, and Malia Obama, right, on their way through Lafayette Park to St. John's Episcopal Church for Easter services, Sunday, March 31, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama says he and the first lady have a good strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:10
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NY to seek release of sealed Attica riot documents
Written by Associated Press
FAMOUS PRISON - In a Dec. 20, 2006, photo is Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials say they'll ask a state court to unseal documents containing details about the bloody retaking of Attica state prison after a riot by inmates more than 40 years ago.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he'll seek a court order making public previously secret parts of a 1975 state report that examined New York's efforts to investigate the riot and its aftermath. Thirty-two inmates and 11 civilian employees died after prisoners took over the maximum-security facility in September 1971, most of them when state troopers stormed the prison.
The documents include grand jury testimony ordered sealed in 1975.
Among those seeking release of the records are members of a group of prison employees who survived the riot and relatives of those who died.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:57
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Lawmaker makes 'impulse decision' to come out
Written by CNN
NEVADA ASSEMBLYMAN KELVIN ATKINSON, D-NORTH LAS VEGAS
(AP Photo/Cathleen Allison,File)
by Ashley Killough
(CNN) -- When Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson entered a floor debate Monday over a legislative effort to repeal the state's same-sex marriage ban, he had no idea he'd be waking up the next morning with his name in national headlines.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:03
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Jury returns Monday for Pa. abortion case closings
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DR. KERMIT GOSNELL (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)
by Maryclaire Dale
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury won't hear from an abortion provider before they weigh charges that he killed a woman and four viable babies.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 April 2013 08:15
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