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Dr. Dre to pay $100M to Nicole Young to settle divorce

Dr. Dre and Nicole Young’s highly publicized divorce battle looks to have finally come to an end. According to TMZ, both parties recently reached a property settlement agreement that will see the veteran musician and business mogul pay his ex-wife $100 million to settle their divorce. The news outlet also reports that Dr. Dre has...

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Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song, born. In 1934, an awkward sixteen-year-old girl made her singing debut at the Harlem Apollo Theatre amateur night in New York City. She intended to dance, but she lost her nerve when she got on stage. The man said, do something while youre out there, the singer

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25

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Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee TRACK & FIELD Birthplace: East St. Louis, Illinois March 3, 1962 - Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is part of a the Joyner family of Americantrack-and-field stars. Jackie first gained national attention by winning 4consecutive National Junior Pentathlon Championships. She set

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3

1962

Warren Moon is a retired football player, who played for the Canadian and American football leagues. He was born in Los Angeles, California on November 18, 1956 and was the only brother of 6 sisters. His father was a laborer who died of liver disease when Warren was a young child and his mother was

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18

1956

(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”

Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public

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Robinson, Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt (1919–1972)

When Jackie Robinson took the field on April 15, 1947 wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, he became the first African American in over fifty years to play on a major league baseball team. In the process, he broke through baseball’s color line that had relegated African American players to the

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A. Philip Randolph

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16

1979

black basketball team captian

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1908

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1989

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1950

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24

1963

Elgin Baylor announces his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers. After 14 yea

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1971

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7

1972

Fort Pillow Massacre (1864)

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12

1864

Burris, Roland (1937- )

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15

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Richardson, Laura (1962- )

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14

1962

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13

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Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from the NBA.

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1999

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21

2009

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24

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12

1994

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2

1962

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1954

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21

1936

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1949

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