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The Black Futures Lab is publishing the findcouples to marry legally. ings of the census in a series of reports and The analysis of responses from over 5,300 participants briefs in partnership with Color of in the 2019 Black Census, demonstrate that police violence Change, Demos, and Socioanalítica and impunity — and broader societal violence that targets Research. the LGBTQ+ community — are also urgent concerns, “Black LGBTQ people hold showing a strong alignment with the non-LGBTQ+ in their very bodies the dual identifying larger Black community. brunt of racism and discrim“Too often, Black LGBTQ+ people are perination based upon their ceived as distinct and separate from the largsexual orientation and gener Black community and defined more by der identity,” said K. Satheir sexual orientation than their race,” DAYTON, Texas (AP) – A fence that for decades beel Rahman, President said Alicia Garza, principal at the Black divided two historic Houston-area cemeteries into plots of Demos. “The day Futures Lab and co-founder of Black for white people on one side and black people on the to day experience of Lives Matter. “In fact, LGBTQ+ other has been taken down. economic insecurity, respondents prioritize the same The Houston Chronicle reports that a white mistreatment by 85-year-old maintenance volunteer, Henry Buxton, in families and comAlicia Garza’s new report April dismantled the chain-link fence that divided the munities, offers insight into the Linney Cemetery from the Acie Cemetery in Dayton. needs of Black LGBT+ The change comes after a new president took over Continued on communities. (courthe Linney Cemetery, where white people are buried. He page A2 tesy photo) saw the division as inappropriate and inefficient. Lynda Young, who ran Acie Cemetery where black people are buried before the merger, says seeing the fence come down feels like freedom. She says the community can now move forward.
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Black Troops Fought Bravely at Normandy
Throughout WWII and especially D-Day in 1944, the Black Press dispatched reporters such as the New Journal and Guide’s John Q. ‘Rover’ Jordan, P.B. Young, Jr., Thomas Young, Lem Graves and the ANP’s Joseph Dunbar to the European and South Pacific War Zones to cover the exploits of the Black soldiers. By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter, New Journal and Guide The United States, Great Britain, France and other allies recently observed the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing on five beaches along Southern France at Normandy on their way to defeat Nazi Germany. The modern images of the allied leaders, including the U.S. President and other participants, captured by the media at the Normandy Beach event appeared mostly white. Seventy-five years ago, the mainstream news media and various movies such as “The Longest Day” and others also captured the images of white soldiers valiantly fighting on the sandy beaches against withering gun and cannon fire from the Germans. But thanks to the written words and images recorded by members of the Black Press who were eye witnesses to the action in Southern France to Berlin, the contributions and valor of Black military men and women were recorded, too. Along with a quarter million Black servicemen, Black newsmen from the Norfolk Journal and Guide, the National Newspaper Publisher’s Association (NNPA) and the
HANOVER, Va. (AP) – About a dozen people wearing white Klan robes and waving Confederate flags held a recruitment rally Saturday outside a Virginia courthouse. The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office tells newsoutlets that they received multiple calls about the Ku Klux Klan rally Saturday outside the county courthouse. But they said no laws were broken and no violence occurred. The rally north of Richmond lasted about an hour. The Klan unit waived signs and held banners urging prospective new members to contact them. Hanover County Board of Supervisors Chairman W. Canova Peterson said he disagrees with the Klan but was pleased that things remained peaceful
Stevie Wonder Says He’s Getting a Kidney Transplant
John Q. Jordan, New Journal and Guide Archives
Associated Negro Press (ANP) were on hand to record this history left out of the mainstream press then and recently. Throughout WWII and especially D-Day in 1944, the Black Press dispatched reporters such as the New Journal and Guide’s John Q. ‘Rover’ Jordan and P.B. Young, Jr., Thomas Young, Lem Graves and the ANP’s Joseph Dunbar to the European and South Pacific War Zones to cover the
exploits of the Black soldiers. In many of the stories printed on the pages of the GUIDE, one could detect the tone of the accounts indicating that the reporters wanted to make clear that “Negro” soldiers were making significant contributions. They worked on the ground and the air in combat, Continued on page A3
Women’s Suffrage Forged by Foundling Sisters Happy Birthday to Ida B.
By Gwen McKinney “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” So proclaimed Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who fearlessly shined a light with words on the abominable dark days after slavery and into the 20th century. Journalist, publisher, author, activist, and suffragist leader, Ida B.’s spirit soars. July 16 marks the 157th anniversary of her birth. Blood, sweat, and ink sealed her legacy and the future of a nation still struggling to be whole. Ida B. revered the Black press as an organizing tool. Though her newspaper The Memphis Free Speech was destroyed by racist mobs, she was never silenced. During her life, she would publish three newspapers and authored “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” and “The Red Record,” investigative reports that remain definitive sources on racist violence more than 100 years later. Small in stature but huge in courage, Wells, an emancipated slave, joined a cadre of Black contemporaries – scholars, activists, and thought leaders – who pledged to change the trajectory of bondage and demand that Black women have a voice. They defy the clichés and caricatures planted in pop-
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ular culture with their searing voices. Their cadence would not be paraphrased or translated into the often quoted “Ain’t I A Woman” reprise. But forever burdened by their womanhood and Blackness, their path – then and now – is littered with obstacles. Educator and writer Mary Church Terrell observed, “Nobody wants to know a colored woman’s opinion about her own status [or] that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful..., it is called ‘propaganda,’ or is labeled ‘controversial.’” Poet, teacher, and Baltimore abolitionist Frances Ellen Harper was among the suffragists who pleaded the case for linked fate unity. “We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity,” she said. “Society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” These Founding Sisters forged civil rights organizations with Black men, sororities, and service clubs with their women peers, and joined “woke” White women against lynching and disenfranchisement and for education and economic development. Continued on page A3
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By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) – Stevie Wonder surprised concertgoers in London Saturday night by announcing that he will take a break from performing so that he can receive a kidney transplant this fall. The 69-year-old music legend made the announcement after performing “Superstition’’ at the end of a packed British Summer Time concert in London’s sprawling Hyde Park. He said he was speaking out to quell rumors and sought to reassure fans that he would be okay. “I’m going to be doing three shows then taking a break,’’ he said. “I’m having surgery. I’m going to have a kidney transplant at the end of September this year.’’ He said a donor has been found and that he would be fine, drawing cheers from a devoted crowd of tens of thousands that stretched out from the stage as far as the eye could see. “I came here to give you my love and to thank you for yours,’’ he said. “You ain’t gonna hear no rumors about us. I’m good.’’ He did not provide additional information about his kidney illness. There had been a recent report that Wonder was facing a serious health issue. A representative for Wonder didn’t immediately respond to a request Saturday for details about his health. He has kept an active schedule, including performing recently at a Los Angeles memorial service for slain rapper Nipsey Hussle. Wonder, who has received more than two-dozen Grammy Awards, has produced a string of hits over a long career that began when he was a youngster who performed as Little Stevie Wonder. His classic hits include “You Are the Sunshine of My Life’’ and “Living for the City.’’ Wonder seemed in top form throughout the concert, performing a series of his hits and paying tribute to musical heroes including Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and John Lennon, performing a stirring rendition of the latter’s “Imagine’’ near the end of the show. It was a joyous event, with his fans reveling in the warm summer night – though a light drizzle fell near the end – and the career-spanning retrospective that evoked Wonder’s early days as a young Motown star. He did seem less ebullient than in the past and made his health announcement in a somber tone with a severe look on his face. But he was smiling as he left the stage with the band playing the memorable conclusion of “Superstition’’ one final time.