'Faces of Change' — This 'earth advocate' is helping Black Americans keep their communities clean

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'Faces of Change' — This 'earth advocate' is helping Black Americans keep their communities clean

What started as a personal mission for self-described 'earth advocate' Anamarie Shreeves has evolved into an environmentalist collective and a

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Marian Anderson, renowned contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th Century, was born on February 27, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anderson was the daughter of John Berkley Anderson, a small business owner, and Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson, a former Virginia

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