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Welcome Bishop Mitchell!

6th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church welcomes Bishop Michael Leon Mitchell & Supervisor Cordelia Mitchell and Family!

6th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church welcomes Bishop Michael Leon Mitchell & Supervisor Cordelia Mitchell and Family!

Newly elected Bishops

One minute you're winning gold, the next you're in class 😅

Quincy Wilson is just 16 - and is the USA's youngest ever track athlete 🥇 winning GOLD in the 4x400m relay!

What an achievement 👏👏👏

Black U.S. Olympians Won In N**i Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home.

Eighty-five years ago the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in N**i Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the U.S. squad.

At the 1936 Olympics, 18 black athletes went to Berlin as part of the U.S. team. Pictured here are (left to right, rear) high jumpers Dave Albritton and Cornelius Johnson; hurdler Tidye Pickett; sprinter Ralph Metcalfe; boxer Jim Clark; sprinter Mack Robinson. In front: weightlifter John Terry (left); long jumper John Brooks.

HISTORY CREATED IN DOMINICA

A historic first 🫶

Thea Lafond delivers the first ever Olympic medal to Dominica.

And it's a glittering triple jump gold with a 15.02m national record 🏆

CLOCK IT!!⏱️

Your new World Record holders in the mixed 4x400m.

Queens-born Harvard student Lauren Scruggs secured Team USA's gold medal in team fencing 🤺

She won silver earlier in the Olympics.

On this date, the second of the trio of Civil Rights Amendments was passed. The 14th Amendment made newly freed slaves citizens. This was at the heart of the Dred Scott case in the 1850s in which the Supreme Court held that African Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens. #

14th Amendment adopted | July 28, 1868 | HISTORY Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.

Willie Mays make a great catch in 1954

"Rise of Black Wall Street: The Inspiring Story of O.W. Gurley and Greenwood" #blackhistory #shorts ...

On this date July 6th in 1866, the Trustees of Turner Chapel AME Church (formerly Trinity Church for Free Blacks and Indians) received the deed for the church off of the Marietta Square for a huge sum of $10. In the early 1970s, that structure was demolished in the name of...urban renewal.

How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything Urban Renewal was a profoundly destructive force in American cities throughout the 20th century and we are still facing the impact to this day. ...