FBI alert on possible Iran retaliation based on unverified tip, White House says An FBI alert to law enforcement agencies last month warning of the possibility that Tehran ​might try to retaliate for any U.S. strikes ‌on Iran by launching drone attacks in California was based on a single unverified tip, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said ​on Thursday, adding that there has never been such ​a threat to the U.S. from Iran.

FBI alert on possible Iran retaliation based on unverified tip, White House says
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John F. Kennedy Jr's Fashion Was Inspired By Black Men In The '90s

Online Gen Z is going crazy over John F. Kennedy Jr’s fashion sense, but not everybody realizes his fashion was inspired by Black men in the ’90s.
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This Day in Black History: March 12, 1917 The first Black Girl Scouts troop was formed on March 12, 1917.

The first Black Girl Scouts troop was formed on March 12, 1917 #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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Trump threatens not to sign any bills until Congress approves strict voter ID act Save Act would limit voting access in the US and centers on Trump’s unfounded claims of noncitizens stealing elections

Trump threatens not to sign any bills until Congress approves strict voter ID act
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This Day In Black History - March 11th Lorraine Hansberry Makes History As 1st Black Woman To Produce A Broadway Play On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry, a Croton-On-Hudson resident, made history on Broadway with the opening of her play, A Raisin in the Sun. A story about

This Day In Black History – March 11th Lorraine Hansberry Makes History As 1st Black Woman To Produce A Broadway Play #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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Appeals court rules against Trump administration's efforts to end protected status for Haitians A federal appeals court this week sided with a lower judge’s ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S.

Appeals court rules against Trump administration’s efforts to end protected status for Haitians
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10 Facts: Harriet Tubman Explore ten crucial facts about Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist, spy, nurse, suffragette, and former slave who worked tirelessly to free enslaved people...

Happy Harriet Tubman Day!
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My Offering for Reverend Jesse Jackson

By Anna Greene Dell’Era

March 9, 1892: The People’s Grocery Lynchings A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis, Tennessee and lynched them without trial.

March 9, 1892: The People’s Grocery Lynchings
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Appreciation: Henry L. Marsh III • Virginia Mercury It could be easy at times to forget that Sen. Henry Marsh was even there, listening quietly from his back-row desk in the Senate of Virginia. Marsh, who died last week at the age of 91, wasn’t flashy or given to florid oratory. He had long ago tilted at his share of windmills in a […]

In 1977, Marsh became the first Black mayor of Richmond, once the seat of a seditious breakaway government formed to perpetuate the enslavement of Black people. #blackhistoryeveryday
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#OnThisDay: Bloody Sunday Today marks the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which occurred #onthisday in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The march was named for the 600 marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was there that law enforcement officers beat unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas.

On March 7, 1965, approximately 600 marchers, led by activists including John Lewis and Hosea Williams, aimed to march from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights. #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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US government workforce shrinks by 12% since September 2024 The U.S. government's civilian workforce shrank by ‌12% between September 2024 and January 2026, according to government data published on Wednesday, reflecting President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency's efforts to cut government jobs.

US government workforce shrinks by 12% since September 2024
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March 6, 1857: Dred (and Harriet) Scott Decision The Supreme Court declared in horrific Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that “Any person descended from Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of U.S.”

March 6, 1857: Dred (and Harriet) Scott Decision #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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US soldiers who died in the Iran war remembered for their service and devotion to their families Four of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war have been identified by the Pentagon as members of the Army Reserve.

US soldiers who died in the Iran war remembered for their service and devotion to their families
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Crispus Attucks: A Legacy of Radical Black Dignity | Greenwich Historical Society The Crispus Attucks Association was a community organization formally started in 1941 with the mission to provide programming for the Black population of Greenwich. The home of the Association…

Crispus Attucks: A Legacy of Radical Black Dignity #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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Join us for an inspiring talk with Professor María Esther Hammack on Wednesday, March 04, 2026 at 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Time!
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This Day in Black History: March 4, 1877 Garrett A. Morgan, noted American inventor, was born on March 4, 1877.

Garrett A. Morgan, noted American inventor, was born on this day in 1877. #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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The Freedmen's Bureau Records The museum tells the story of the post-Civil War transition of enslaved people to freedom by making the records of the Freedmen’s Bureau accessible online.

Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands in 1865 to assist in the reconstruction of the South and to aid formerly enslaved individuals transition to freedom and citizenship.
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Join us for an inspiring talk with Professor María Esther Hammack on Wednesday, March 04, 2026 at 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Time!
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Join us for an inspiring talk with Professor María Esther Hammack on Wednesday, March 04, 2026 at 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Time!
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March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama.

March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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Coalition of groups files suit against the EPA over landmark climate rollback
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This Day In Black History - Rebecca Lee Crumpler Became First African American Woman To Earn A Medical Degree As the calendar pages turn from what we are told is Black History Month we feel it is important to continue to celebrate Black History. Especially with all

This Day In Black History – Rebecca Lee Crumpler Became First African American Woman To Earn A Medical Degree #BlackHistoryEveryDay
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Alaska lawmaker’s chief of staff arrested on sex trafficking and child exploitation charges | Alaska Beacon A legislator’s chief of staff was arrested in Juneau on Friday on federal charges of sex trafficking and child exploitation, enticement and coercion and creating child sexual abuse material. Craig Scott Valdez, 36, was chief of staff to Sutton Republican Sen. George Rauscher since November, and worked in Rauscher’s office since 2021, according to a […]

Alaska lawmaker’s chief of staff arrested on sex trafficking and child exploitation charges
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Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia museum following judge’s orders that cited Orwell’s ‘1984’ | CNN Politics Informational panels on slavery returned to a popular historical museum in Philadelphia on Thursday, after a federal judge evoked the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984” to order the Trump administration to bring back the long-standing exhibit earlier this week.

Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia museum following judge’s orders that cited Orwell’s ‘1984’
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