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Black Pirates
One of the greatest and most successful pirates of the Carribean was the son of a Black slave named Diego Gullo. He learned his trade from Sir Franics Drake, the hero of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Headquartered on a small island off the coast of Cuba, her terrorized European shipping.
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the following article University of Oregon historian Carlos Aguirre describes the self-taught poet, writer, and folklorist Nicomedes Santa Cruz, one of the understudied black intellectual leaders in Peru and Latin
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The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
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Negro Baseball Leagues
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Brown, Wesley (1927-2012)
Wesley Brown earned distinction in 1949 as the first African American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy.  Wesley Brown grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar High School.  A “voracious reader,” Brown joined the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
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Barrow, Dean Oliver (1951- )
On February 7, 2008, Belize elected Dean Barrow as its first black Prime Minister. Born March 2, 1951, in Belize City, Barrow earned his LL.M. from the University of Miami in the United States and became partner at a Belizean law firm in 1977.  Two years later he established his own
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Gleaton, Tony (1948-2015)
Leo Antony Tony Gleaton is an African American photographer, scholar, and artist who is best known for his photographic images capturing and documenting the African influence in the American West and Central and South America. Gleaton, the youngest son of an elementary school teacher and police
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Hopwood v. State of Texas (1996)
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1996
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Sentamu, John (1949- )
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