‘Clueless’ Reboot Coming To Peacock, Puts Focus Squarely On Dionne

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‘Clueless’ Reboot Coming To Peacock, Puts Focus Squarely On Dionne

Stacey Dash has been associated with the role of Dionne for the past 25 years since the film's 1995 debut.

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Angela Bassett is a well known African American actress and director. She was born in New York in August 1958 to Betty Jane and Daniel Benjamin Bassett. Her ancestors adopted the name of Bassett after William Henry Bassett, who was a slave who adopted the name of his former master. Shortly after

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Evelyn Boyd Granville, Born May 1, 1924 in Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar High School, a segregated high school at the time. Her interest in mathematics was encouraged by two mathematics teachers. Granville worked with Einar Hille, a distinguished mathematician in the field of functional

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1924

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Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr. was born on October 17, 1925 in North Augusta, South Carolina. In 1936, he and his family migrated to New York City, New York. Britton was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although he was unaware

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Xavier University [New Orleans] (1915- )

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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System

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Spelman College [Atlanta] (1881- )

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Holmes, Benjamin M. (1846-1875)

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Jonathan A. Rodgers becomes president of CBS's television stations division, the

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Kay, Ulysses S. (1917-1995)

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Perry, Cynthia Shepard (1928- )

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William "Willie the Pro" Thrower (1930-2002)

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Wilt Chamberlain

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Smith, Hale (1925–2009)

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Blackwell, David Harold (1919-2010)

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Scott, Robert “Bobby” (1947- )

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