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October 27, 2026
Memphis plantation culture & practice models establishes lexicon definition for Black on Black Racism, White Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen 10-18-26 remarks on Floor of Congress sends lifeline to Anthony "Amp" Elmore and African Cultural Embassy
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October 20, 2026
Anthony "Amp" Elmore a "Proud Black Buddhist" living in Memphis, TN created The Contemporary Gladiator Film in 1988 the 1st Buddhist biopic world film history is fighting Memphis White Racism & White Supremacy erasure of a Buddhist World Film History
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October 13, 2026
Memphis Film Commission Racism: Five-time world kickboxing champion and 35mm theatrical filmmaker Anthony "Amp" Elmore indicts municipal leaders, Mayor Paul Young, and Film Commissioner Linn Sitler for multi-million dollar taxpayer fraud, plantation
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September 24, 2026
5-time Memphis World kickboxing Champion, filmmaker, historian fights Memphis White Supremacy, Racism, Black on Black Racism to bring Historic Black Memphis Community of Orange Mound to Global Hub of International Cultural Diplomacy & Black History
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August 24, 2026
African Cultural Embassy in Black Orange Mound Community in Memphis launch Historic diplomatic Movement via John F. Kennedy Library documentation seeks Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen, Cherokee Elementary, Arya Primary Kisumu Kenya to join Movement
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August 10, 2026
Tom Mboya 70th Celebration charge Kenya with erasing Tom Mboya, Thurgood Marshall, and the Black American architects of Kenya's birth—demanding global accountability through Black Freedom 250th and Tom Mboya 70th: Event fights Black on Black Racism
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August 3, 2026
Exposing the Erasure of Tom Mboya: How Marginalizing Kenya's Greatest Liberationist Robbed Two Continents of Their Shared History — Orange Mound Aligns with Kenya's "Linda Mwananchi Movement" and both Kenya and Memphis practice of historicide
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July 1, 2026
Black Freedom 250th is the first celebration to frame America's 250th through a hemispheric lens, linking Black liberation across the United States, Mexico, Colombia, the Caribbean, and Latin America into one shared continental narrative
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June 23, 2026
Reclaiming the un‑sanitized Black freedom story erased from America 250 restoring continental history, correcting Orange Mound's true origin & declaring a sovereign Black Semiquincentennial celebration Kickoff African Cultural Embassy July 11, 2026
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June 18, 2026
The Old Fourth Ward Arts Festival Returns June 20–21 at Historic Fourth Ward Park — A Celebration Rooted in 140 Years of Art, Resilience, and Community
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June 17, 2026
Groups Decry Abuse; Dedicate Themselves to Protecting and Promoting Human Rights in Mental Health
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June 11, 2026
Historic Orange Mound Launches 'Black Freedom 250th Initiative, Reframing America's Semiquincentennial Through Global Black History and Latin American Alliance
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June 4, 2026
African American activist Anthony "Amp" Elmore extend global Charter of Kinship to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, launching a bilingual digital embassy & June 20, 2026 event to celebrate shared Afro-Mexican history & cross-border freedom trails
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June 1, 2026
Historian, filmmaker and Five Time World Kickboxing Champion Anthony "Amp" Elmore invites Mexico's President to help honor Afro‑Mexican history & unite Black America and Mexico through the Charter of Kinship & a bi‑national Juneteenth celebration
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May 25, 2026
Defeating 9th District erasure through Education, Diversity & Democracy. Orange Mound Juneteenth expands Black history to honor our 1879 founding, Afro-Mexican roots, and Indigenous Black sovereignty as a shared America 250 initiative for freedom
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May 20, 2026
Black Memphis Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore announces first U.S. Juneteenth celebration recognizing Mexico 150‑year Mascogo tradition, inviting Mexican and Hispanic communities to join Orange Mound in a historic Black–Mexican cultural reunion
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May 6, 2026
Orange Mound occupies its space in global history. The African Cultural Embassy invites President Ruto and Kenya to ratify a historic Charter of Kinship, connecting the 1956 Mboya Airlift to a shared future of democratic and cultural sovereignty
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April 28, 2026
"How a 1990 Kenyan Film Premiere Launched the First Industrial-Level Trade Deal Between an African Government and a Black American Business, Defining Orange Mound as a Global Sovereign Hub."
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March 24, 2026
NARA Historian Memphis Born 5-Time World Kickboxing Champion Anthony "Amp" Elmore, Fights Memphis White Supremacy, Racism & Black on Black Racism, Honors Black History & African Connection, Black Orange Mound Birthplace of African Cultural Diplomacy
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