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

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Wake Up And Stay Woke: Looking For Answers?

There’re some who’ve used this time to do positive things that carry with them hope and good feelings about what they’ve been able to do for themselves and for

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Capra, Frank The Negro Soldier 1943

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Black Nativity

'Black Nativity,' a folk-song rendering of the Christian story based on Langston Hughes's gospel song-play about the birth of Christ, has become an annual tradition in Boston since 1969. First presented in the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, it has attracted a wider audience in its performances on

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Whitehead, Arch Colson “Colson” (1969- )

Born Arch Colson Whitehead on November 6, 1969, novelist Colson Whitehead spent his formative years in Manhattan, New York with his parents, Arch and Mary Anne Whitehead, who owned a recruiting firm, and three siblings. Of his childhood, he has said that he preferred reading science fiction and

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Nov

6

1969

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

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Africa: Coronavirus Holds Up a Mirror to Hidden Gaslighting Abuse

It's like living in a gaslight culture, a term coined nearly a century ago to describe a kind of psychological manipulation or abuse of people - particularly of

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Ludacris

Name at birth: Christopher Bridges

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is the U.S. Supreme Court justice who was thrust into the limelight in his 1991 confirmation proceedings, during which he was accused of sexual harassment. Clarence Thomas grew up in rural Georgia, attended Conception Seminary and Holy Cross College, then graduated from Yale Law

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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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Aug

4

1950

Dash, Julie (1952- )

Filmmaker Julie Dash was born on October 22, 1952 in Queens, New York. She received her B.A. in film production from City College of New York in 1974 and went on to earn a two-year fellowship to the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. At AFI, Dash

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Oct

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1952

'When Ray J Come Home?': Princess Love's Fruit Snack Challenge with Melody Derails When Ray J Pops Up

Celebrity parents, including actress Gabrielle Union, reality star and entrepreneur Kylie Jenner, and now “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” reality stars Princess Love and Ray J Norwood, are among the many participating in the Fruit Snack

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Gayle King Clears Up That Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Rumor

The “CBS This Morning” co-host corrected recent reports that her best friend, Oprah Winfrey, had played any part in setting up Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new Los Angeles

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Nina Simone

The story of her stage name is that she chose Nina because it means “small,” and Simone after French actress Simone Signoret… In 1989 she worked with Pete Townshend on his musical The Iron Horse… Simone held two honorary doctorate degrees (in music and humanities) and preferred to be

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For The First Time, Clarence Thomas Tells His Story on Television – Free Press of Jacksonville

Clarence Thomas, the famously silent jurist, tells his own life story in a new documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” which makes its national television debut May 18 on

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

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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1945

Oprah Winfrey Says the False Story About Being Involved In a Child Pornography Ring Brought Up Bad Childhood Memories

Her article that addressed the fake story was published online Wednesday, May 13, and it revealed what Winfrey was doing when talk of the rumor seemed to be at its

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Kinyumba Mutakabbir To Play First African American Superhero In Acclaimed Comic Book Franchise Black Salt, The Trailer To Be Released Black History Month

Actor Kinyumba Mutakabbir will play agent Samuel Tharpe in the action thriller Black Salt. The movie trailer is set for release in February, in honor of Black history month. Owen Ratliff created the Black Salt franchise in an effort to introduce more African Americans into leading superhero type

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Condola Rashad Has This to Say About Being the Inspiration Behind New ‘Insecure’ Character

When Phylicia and Ahmad Rashad’s daughter Condola Rashad learned that a character on “Insecure” shared her name, she thought it was just

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Zambia: After Seven Years, Displaced Villagers Might Get Land

Dozens of residents evicted by one commercial farmer in 2013 lived out in the open for months, then later in tents or shoddy housing on the fringes of a government forest reserve, with inadequate access to water and no source of livelihood or permission to cultivate

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: One Woman's Race to Save Girls From 'The Cut', Early Marriage

Dr Kulea, an anti-female genital mutilation and gender activist, is the founder and executive director of the Samburu Girls

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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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Marcus Jordan Shares The Story About Beating His Dad, Michael Jordan, In 1-ON-1

Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty

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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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He Lives On: “Scarface” Remake Finally Has A New Director

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Titanic’s Black Passenger: Creating Historical Fiction From Historical Fact

In 2009 W. Mae Kent, published Titanic: The Untold Story, the first historical fiction novel on the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic which makes it’s central character, Nathan Badeau Legarde, a black man. The inspiration for her story came from Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, an Afro-French

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1912

Lorde, Audre (1934-1992)

Audre Lorde, born February 18, 1934 in New York City, was an American feminist poet. The youngest of three daughters, Audre Lorde was nearsighted to the point of legal blindness. She also didnt speak till she was five, having first been inspired to speak by a short story that was read to her by

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Nov

17

1992

For the first time, Clarence Thomas tells his story on television

Clarence Thomas, the famously silent jurist, tells his own life story in a new documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” which makes its national television debut May 18 on

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Veteran Tanzanian journalist Fili Karashani dies

At 12.21 pm on Sunday, May 10, 2020 I spoke to Mr Kagina Karashani about the progress of his father’s treatment, and we discussed visitation plans following the decision of Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) administration that due to the Covid-19 scare, only one person would be allowed to see him

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