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Booker T. Washington Biography

Booker T. Washington is best known as a prominent black educator and racial leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 and oversaw its growth into a well-respected black

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1856

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium located in the Queens borough of New York City. As part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament, the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the calendar year — and is the largest

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1997

Loretta Lynch Bio - First African-American Woman Attorney General

Loretta E. Lynch serves as the U.S. attorney general. She was nominated to the post by President Barack Obama in September 2014 and, upon confirmation more than half a year later, became the first African-American woman to serve in the

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Libya: There's No Shortage of Players in Libya's Conflict, But Few Champions for Peace

Just in recent weeks, fighters allied to Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Accord have made significant gains against their rivals in the Libyan National Army, led by self-proclaimed Field Marshal Khalifa

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June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage

June 12, 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be

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Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is Cooglers first feature-length film and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale

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2009

Shooting of Jordan Davis

The shooting of Jordan Davis occurred on Friday, November 23, 2012, at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States by Michael David Dunn, a 47-year-old software developer, following an argument over the loud music played by Davis and/or his three friends. Jordan Russell Davis was

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2012

Wealthy hospitals get billions in COVID-19 money, says new report

(Credit: Cleveland Clinic official

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Anderson, Lauren (1965- )

When Lauren Anderson was promoted to principal dancer with the Houston Ballet in 1990, she became the first female African American principal dancer in the United States and, at the time, the world’s only African American prima ballerina heading a major ballet

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Harris, Everette “E” Lynn (1955-2009) - Birthday

New York Times bestselling author Everette “E” Lynn Harris was born June 20, 1955, in Flint, Michigan.

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20

1955

New York Times breathtaking front page memorializes coronavirus deaths

The New York Times paid tribute to those who lost their lives to coronavirus on its May 24, 2020 front

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, better known as Alex Haley, was a celebrated author whose books centered around African American heritage. He was born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, New York to Simon and Bertha Palmer Haley. For the first few years of his life he lived in Tennessee with his mother

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1921

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem

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Showtime to debut "Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall", directed by Spike Lee

On February 26, during Black History Month, the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Legacy Recordings will release exclusive CD/DVD and CD/Blu Ray editions ofMichael Jackson’s revolutionary 1979 recording, Off The Wall. The package will include the original version of the album bundled with the new

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Designer Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss Will Host First Socially Distanced Event at NYFW

Haitian-American fashion designer Kerby Jean-Raymond isn’t letting COVID-19 stand in the way of the New York Fashion Week experience he’s creating for spectators, and he has already come up with an innovative workaround for his Pyer Moss

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Joy Ann Reid - AALAS 2019 Nominee

Joy Ann Reid – The Man Who Sold America

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Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams , (born April 5, 1973, Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.), American musician who was involved in a number of pop hits as part of the producing team Neptunes, as a songwriter, and as a solo

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Apr

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1973

Carter G. Woodson - African American Trailblazers

The African American Trailblazers honors the African American contribution to the American story and the significant accomplishments of twelve (12) heroic African Americans in areas such as the arts, sciences, politics, education, and

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Toni Morrison

The controversial book didn't sell well, with Morrison stating in a 1994 afterword that the reception to the work was parallel to how her main character was treated by the

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Investigate Not Just Ahmad’s Death, But The System That Let His Killers Escape

The 64-year-old former police investigator and his 34-year-old son who are charged in his death told police he thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected in several break-ins in the

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Council, city officials mull cap on delivery service charges

“When restaurants operate off of 6[%], 8% profit margins, when you’re paying 18% of your total revenue to the delivery companies, you’re just not viable,” Schall

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Damon Young - AALAS 2019 Nominee

Damon Young – What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

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John Legend

John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and

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Dec

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1978

African-American Tennis Champion Althea Gibson Quotes

Althea Gibson, a sharecroppers daughter raised on welfare mostly in New York City, learned tennis through public clubs. She rose to become the first African-American to play at in the Forest Hills and in the Wimbledon championships, and the first African-American to win either. Althea Gibson broke

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Doley, Harold, Jr (1947- )

Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr is the founder of Doley Securities, LLC, the oldest African American owned investment banking firm in the nation. Doley is the only African American to have owned a seat on the New York Stock

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Ida B’s Pulitzer - Both too late and right on time

Exactly one hundred and thirty-six years to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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Davy, Gloria (1931-2012)

Gloria Davy, a rich-voiced (lirico-spinto) soprano who “sang for the sheer joy of singing” had a four decade career as a concert singer. Early in her career she replaced Leontyne Price as Bess in the 1954 international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1958 she broke color barriers when she

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Walton, Lester Aglar (1882-1965)

Lester Walton was a journalist, entertainment professional, and diplomat who promoted civil rights at home and abroad. Born Lester Aglar Walton on April 20, 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri, his early life was spent as a journalist. At the age of 20 in 1902, when he was hired by the St. Louis Star to be

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Apr

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1882

Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)

May 3 – In Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States are entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the

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Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial

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