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Lofton, Ramona ["Sapphire"] (1950- )

Ramona Lofton, better known as Sapphire, is a self-admitted bisexual, novelist, poet, and performance artist. She gained prominence for her 1996 debut novel, Push, and other works that focus on the alarming realities of inner city

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1950

Tavis Smiley

Name at birth: Tavis Roberts

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Daniel McCree

Daniel McCree recognized the safety benefits enjoyed by hotels, apartment buildings and office buildings and decided to extend that safety to homeowners. Basing his model on fire escapes being used by bigger buildings, McCree created a portable version made of wood that could be attached to the

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That Celebrity Interview: Netflix’s Go! Go! Cory Carson

I’m delighted, as WALL•E and Finding Dory are must-views on my watch list, so to invite animators Woo & Moore into the Valder Beebe Show satellite studios makes my

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Smith, Zadie (1975– )

Zadie Smith, writer and essayist, was born in the London, UK borough of Brent on October 25, 1975. Smith was named Sadie by her mother, a Jamaican immigrant who arrived in London in the late 1970s, and her English father. Smith enjoyed tap dancing as a child and attended the Hampstead Comprehensive

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Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup a Violinist, married Anne Hampton on Christmas Day in 1828. In January of 1841 he was offered a job as a part-time violinist with a traveling band. This offer turned out to be a trick, where Solomon was sold into

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7 Classic Must Play JRPGs.

Hell, Square Enix still hadn’t put it into the main Final Fantasy games and it merged with the company that began using it first in

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Bebe Moore Campbell

Bebe Moore Campbell , in full Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell (born Feb. 18, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 27, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif.), American novelist and essayist who examined race relations and mental illness in her

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LeBron James Reveals How He Felt The First Time He Met Michael Jordan

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Tar-Baby

The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1880; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Brer Fox to entrap Brer Rabbit. The more that Brer Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he

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North American Slave Narratives

North American Slave Narratives documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project received a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the

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The Fly Jock: Black Twitter Gives Strong Salute To The Legend Tom Joyner

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S.E.K. Mqhayi

S.E.K. Mqhayi , in full Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (born Dec. 1, 1875, near Gqumahashe, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died July 29, 1945, Ntab’ozuko, S.Af.), Xhosa poet, historian, and translator who has been called the “father of Xhosa

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Whitfield, Lynn (1953– )

Lynn Whitfield is an American actress and producer. Whitfield is best known for her performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical drama film, The Josephine Baker Story (1991), where she won a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries and a movie along with a Golden

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1953

Horace Grant Disses Michael Jordan After Getting Portrayed As Snitch In “The Last Dance”

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Count Basie

Name at birth: William James Basie

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Jefferson, William J. (1947-- )

William J. Jefferson is a former Democratic politician who represented Louisiana’s Second Congressional District from 1991 to 2009. He was the first African American congressman elected from the state since Reconstruction. His career ended in a bribery scandal that resulted in his conviction in

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Joel Chandler Harris

Joel Chandler Harris , (born Dec. 9, 1848, Eatonton, Ga., U.S.—died July 3, 1908, Atlanta), American author, creator of the folk character Uncle

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Kato, David (c1964-2011)

David Kato was founding father of Uganda’s emergent gay rights movement, the first openly gay man in the country, and an international gay rights activist. He was brutally murdered in January

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2011

Documentary Films on Blackpast.org - African American History - Director

A&E Television Americas Black Warriors (on World War II) 1998

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Blueface’s Baby Mama Jaidyn Alexis Smashed Out Window At His Home

The “Thotiana” star recorded his son’s mother Jaidyn Alexis going on a rampage and smashing a window at his home as he filmed

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Top 10 Richest African Americans

No one can understand the value of freedom as the African Americans do. They were led into slavery by whites and kept as petty slaves by land owners deprived of any rights. It took some time for the black to fathom their true potential as human beings deserving of equal respect, rights and social

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Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser's Civil War Espionage

In the following account historian and novelist Lois Leveen describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, the account of a black woman who served as a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil

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Tiger Woods

Name at birth: Eldrick Tont Woods

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Biography of Gayle King

Most people know Gayle King as Oprah Winfreys best friend and sidekick. But King was an established news anchor and talk show host before her friendship with the queen of all media became her pop culture

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Scenes from Djibouti, Camp Lemonier, and the U.S. military's Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa

Scenes from Djibouti, Camp Lemonier, and the U.S. militarys Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa

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Is This Mary Bowser?: The Use and Misuse of Photographs to Reconstruct History

Lois Leveen occupies an unusual role as both historian and novelist. Leveen is the author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser,which is based on the true story of a black woman who became a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the Civil War. Very few details about the historic Mary Bowser can

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Crumpler , Rebecca Davis Lee (1831-1895)

For many years Dr. Rebecca Cole was considered to be the first black woman physician. However, historical research has shown that the honor rightly belongs to Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler who completed her M.D. in 1864, three years before

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Iman

Iman is a former high-fashion model who later became a well-known businesswoman. Iman was born in Somalia, and as a model in the 1970s and 1980s was known for her lithe frame and serene good looks. After her retirement from modeling she gained wider fame when she married rock innovator David Bowie

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Zimbabwe: Rights Movement Speaks On Buyanga Child Custody Drama

Fathers' Rights Movement Zimbabwe (FRMZ) believes Frank Buyanga's child custody case has demonstrated that fathers' rights are disregarded in

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