Writer Ralph Ellison born

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1999

(1789) An Unknown Free Black Author Describes Slavery In 1789

We don’t know the name of one of the earliest orators against slavery. He was a West Indian who apparently was a former slave fortunate enough to be educated. He was also intimately familiar with slavery and the slave trade in that region. The themes and arguments advanced in this oration will be

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Angela Davis

Born: /26/944 Birmingham, AlabamaAngela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in

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Harlem Rattlers" Are Subject Of Free Talk At New York State Military Museum On April 26

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (04/16/2014)-- They're known popularly as the Harlem Hellfighters, but the African-American members of the New York National Guard's 369th Infantry identified themselves instead as the Harlem Rattlers, and made the rattlesnake their unit

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Frances Harper

Born: 9/24/1825 Baltimore, MarylandDied: 2/22/1911 Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFrances Harper was an African-American abolitionist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Womens Christian Temperance Union, which advocated the federal government

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Lecture 15 | African-American Freedom Struggle (Stanford)

Lecture 15 of Clay Carsons Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). This lecture is entitled Outlaw feminist Angela Davis. Recorded November 15, 2007 at Stanford

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Nov

15

2007

Haley, George (1925- )

Ambassador George Williford Boyce Haley served as the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Gambia from 1998 until 2001. Haley was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1998 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He then traveled to Banjul, the capital of Gambia to assume his post as head of the

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Aug

28

1925

'Bloop': Quad Webb Drops Cute Selfie Prior to Bombshell News That a Baby Girl Is Joining Her Family

The cast member of “Married to Medicine” dropped a gorgeous photo on social media just hours before announcing that she is bringing home a new baby

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Charles Kuralt

September 10, 1934

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Cornel West

Media personality Cornel West is an African American Studies scholar and socialist critic of the white patriarchy that is the United States of America. West grew up in Sacramento and graduated from Harvard in 1973. He then embarked on an academic career in the humanities, teaching ethics, religion

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AiR's Latest e-book 'FEAR - False Expectations Appearing Real' Addresses the Current Crisis and Shows the way Forward

BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA, May 10, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- Atman in Ravi's e-book titled 'FEAR' has captured the essence of the current crisis of

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Spingarn Award

Ralph J. Bunche received the Spingarn Medal for his contributions to the Myrdal study and his achievements as UN mediator of the Palestine conflict.

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Nov

25

1949

Dennis Rodman

Dennis Keith Rodman is a New Jersey born African American ex-NBA player who played for numerous teams during his career. He acquired the nickname “The Worm” and is famously known for his defensive and rebounding abilities as well as dyeing his hair with artificial colors. He has earned

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Biography

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where she has been on the faculty since

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Alex Haley

Alex Haley wrote Roots, one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s. Haley spent 20 years in the Coast Guard (1939-59) then began a second career as a writer, working for magazines ranging from Readers Digest to Playboy. Haley was a ghostwriter on his first major book: The Autobiography of

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Project Runway's Elaine Welteroth gets married on Brooklyn stoop

Project Runway judge Elaine Welteroth married musician Jonathan Singletary outside their stoop on May 10 after coronavirus dashed their California mountain ceremony

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UCLA names building after Ralph Bunche

January 19, 1969 - UCLA renames its social science buildings to honor alumnus Ralph Bunche.

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Jan

19

1969

Historian Charles H. Wesley dies

Death of scholar, historian, author and former president of Central State College. Charles H. Wesley was known for such works as The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in College Life.

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Aug

16

1987

Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" and "Black Boy", dies, 1942

Richard Wright, author of Native Son and Black Boy, dies, 1942

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Nov

28

1942

Charles R. Johnson

...liberate its significance to today’s African American struggle began with Ishmael Reed’s exuberant Flight to Canada (1976) and extended into the metafiction of philosophical novelist Charles R. Johnson. In Oxherding Tale (1982), Johnson sends his biracial fugitive slave protagonist on

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Common, Angela Davis, Pete Rock, Ilyasah Shabazz to honor Malcolm X

Portrait of American political activist and radical civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) as he holds an 8mm movie camera in London Airport, London, England, July

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Comedian Sarah Cooper goes viral with TikTok lip-sync of Donald Trump

comedy special

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Menard, John Willis (1838-1893)

John Willis Menard, abolitionist, author, journalist and politician, was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia, Illinois, to French Creole parents. He was the first African American elected to Congress, but was not seated after a dispute over the election results. Menard attended Iberia College, an

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Chris Rock

Chris Rocks no-holds-barred approach to comedy -- and his extraordinary work ethic -- have earned him comparisons to Richard Pryor and George Carlin and made him one of the most successful stand-up acts in the world. Brooklyn-raised Chris Rock got his start in New York nightclubs in the late

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Tavis Smiley and Corporate Diversity Featured in Savoy Summer Issue

Savoy Magazine’s Summer 2015 issue focuses on the corporations and executives that are leading diversity and inclusion across influential brands and companies. Tavis Smiley, radio and television host and author is featured on the cover with an exclusive interview detailing J.J. Abrams adapting his

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Brown, William Wells (1814?-1884)

William Wells Brown was an African American antislavery lecturer, groundbreaking novelist, playwright and historian. He is widely considered to have been the first African American to publish works in several major literary genres. Known for his continuous political activism especially in his

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Nader, Ralph

Nader, Ralph nā´dər [key], 1934–, U.S. consumer advocate and political reformer, b. Winsted, Conn. Admitted to the bar in 1958, he practiced law in Connecticut and was a lecturer (1961–63) in history and government at the Univ. of Hartford. In 1965, Nader published Unsafe at Any

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Booker T. Washington

Born: 4/5/1856 Hales FordDied: 11/14/1915 Tuskegee, AlabamaBooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.Business

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Kay Coles James

Kay Coles James is President and Founder of the Gloucester Institute. In this role, James leads an organization which trains and nurtures leaders in the African-American

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birthday, Dr Chancellor Williams

Historian and author of Destruction of Black Civilization, Dr Chancellor Williams was born

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Dec

22

1898

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