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Diary of a Start-up Brand | Natalie Joseph

After bullding a successful career as a hair stylist, Natalie Joseph decided to follow her dream to develop a lingerie brand designed for women with fuller busts. Natalie’s mission is to make women feel confident, sexy, supported and comfortable at all times. Natalie Joseph Lingerie is expected to launch Autumn/Winter 2020. We're delighted that Natalie...

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DJ Kool Herc was the earliest major figure to emerge from the mid-70s Bronx, New York music scene that would eventually come to be known as Hip-Hop. Born Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica, Herc immigrated to New York City and was exposed at an early age to both American and Jamaican musical

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Padmore, George (1901-1959)

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Togo, twice the size of Maryland, is on the south coast of West Africa bordering on Ghana to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Benin to the east. The Gulf of Guinea coastline, only 32 mi long (51 km), is low and sandy. The only port is at Lomé. The Togo hills traverse the central

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Somalia, situated in the Horn of Africa, lies along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. It is bounded by Djibouti in the northwest, Ethiopia in the west, and Kenya in the southwest. In area it is slightly smaller than Texas. Generally arid and barren, Somalia has two chief rivers, the Shebelle

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The Zong Massacre (1781)

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Amistad Liberators set Sail

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Windhoek, Namibia (1840- )

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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the

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Slater, Rodney (1955- )

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23

1955

(1948) Henry A. Wallace, “Radio Address”

Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Jr., in 1948 became the Presidential nominee of the Progressive Party. Wallace ran a spirited campaign which unlike almost any before, took on the question of racial discrimination and segregation against African Americans in the South. What follows is his

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(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”

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First Black radiso station, WERD, begins operating in Atlanta, GA, 1949

First Black radio station, WERD, begins operating in Atlanta, GA, 1949

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1949

Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City, 1920

Marcus Garvey presents his Back To Africa program in New York City, 1920

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1920

30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof's "Race Against Time

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1986

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Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae star is born.

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1945

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(1987) Clarence Thomas, “Why Black Americans Should Look to Conservative Politics”

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Fax, Elton (1909-1993)

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1993

Berry Lawson Case (1938)

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Ghana became an independent state

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1957

Name at birth: LaDonna Adrian Gaines

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Zhou Enlai's African "Safari" (1963-1964)

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Grant Chapel AME Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1883- )

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Namibia nämĭb´ēə [key], officially Republic of Namibia, republic (2005 est. pop. 2,031,000), c.318,000 sq mi (823,620 sq km), SW Africa. It is bordered by Angola in the north, by Zambia in the northeast, by Botswana in the east, by South Africa in the southeast and south, and by the Atlantic Ocean

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Thelonious Monk

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1972

Booker T. Washington

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Ragsdale, Marguerita (1948- )

Marguerita Dianne Ragsdale was born in April 1948 in Richmond, Virginia to Lillie and Vernon Ragsdale and raised alongside her five sisters on a farm in McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. After starting her undergraduate work at Virginia State University in Petersburg, she transferred to

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