A Reliable
Voice in the
Community
Volume 7
Issue 1
March 17 - 23, 2010
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More than 200 women, and a handful of children and men, gathered at Dejean Middle School Saturday to celebrate their progress -— and their future. “The main message I wanted to give was that we need to do the work to know, and believe, and feel in every fiber and every cell of our body that we are completely good,” said Lakota Harden, a Native American activist and educator. “That we have nothing to be ashamed of.” |
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Oakland/Alameda County Swanson honored for support of labor-sponsored bills
Politics
Business Dr. George Davis: A champion of Bayview’s seniors
Education NAACP requests meeting with UC president over racist incidents
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Census Census forms now arriving in Northern California
Advertisement Health West County launches HeartSafe education program
Entertainment America Ferrera stars in upcoming ‘The Dry Land’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
Sports African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame plans induction ceremony
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The first black American newspaper was founded in 1827 by Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwam the very year that slaves were set free in the state of New York. It came to life in a small office in downtown New York City. The name of the paper was Freedom’s Journal. Its purpose was to serve as a medium of expression for black and white abolitionists 34 years before the first shot was fired in the Civil War and 36 years before President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Freedom’s Journal initiated a new phenomena in America: the use of the pen as a bold weapon in support of the fight for the emancipation of African slaves, a weapon for liberation and rights, a public campaign to inspire racial pride and to inform those who could read about events affecting the African-American community. It was a tool to fight ignorance and to separate fact from fiction. It was an audacious undertaking — it was a dangerous undertaking! It was an undertaking with little financial support and few resources to sustain its growth. Four short years later, in 1830, Freedom’s Journal stopped printing. But, its legacy lived and newspapers sprang up across the country, boldly establishing stakes in the ground before the Civil War began. Continue to the 2010 Black History Edition - |
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