Whether it’s reciting poetry excerpts from late African American authors or singing heartfelt gospel music, Long Beach residents are coming together to honor Black History Month.
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2/15/18
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“Whaling was one of the first racially integrated industries in the United States,” Nia Adams from the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum told a small group of elementary and middle schoolers at …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/6/18
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First in a series of Black History Month stories.
Some people can trace their family’s roots to the 1700s, others only a generation or two back. Documenting a family’s history nearly always …
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By Nadya Nataly
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2/2/18
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Perhaps no show on American television addresses the perilous times in which we find ourselves more vividly than ABC’s “Black-ish,” which . . .
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2/1/18
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“It was very profound for me,” John H. Simpkins Jr. said as he recalled marching through the streets of Long Beach with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, at the height of the civil …
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By Bridget Downes
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2/23/17
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We were supposed to have been healed by now, right? With the first African-American president finally elected not once but twice, the nation was supposed to be . . .
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2/2/17
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Central High School capped its Black History Month recognition on Feb. 26 with students presenting to their classmates famous historical and contemporary black figures they had researched. One of the last to go was Fatima Lockett, 17, who fought back tears to recall an experience of her own.
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By Micah Danney
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3/2/16
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For the first time in the history of Long Beach, we acknowledged Black History Month and the contributions of African-Americans to our country as well as to our beloved city.
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By Anissa Moore
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2/29/16
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According to 2012 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 12,370 businesses in Nassau County owned by African-Americans. They represent only 7.6 percent of the county’s 162,528 businesses, and only 5.7 percent of them employ people other than the owners. They rank third on the list of minority-owned business in the county, after those owned by Hispanics and Asians.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/24/16
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Students from Clara H. Carlson School celebrated Black History Month on Feb. 12 through a variety of class-level projects and presentations that spanned throughout the entire school day.
In Rina …
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3/11/15
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