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Franco Harris
Franco Harris is a retired American football player. He was born in March 7, 1950 to an African American father and an Italian mother. He studied at Rancocas Valley Regional High School in New Jersey and later at Penn State University. Here he played for the team “Littany Lions” as
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1950
Sextuplets Who Once Appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show Just Graduated From High School
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Democrats Offer Sweeping Police Reform Bill
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Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Yes
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Congo-Kinshasa: How 'Ebola Business' Threatens Aid Operations in Congo
In its investigation, TNH obtained information drawn from leaked WHO documents that suggests how some health workers and civil servants profited from response funds; and how, in the rush to scale up a response in an active conflict zone, the WHO paid millions of dollars in inflated per diems to
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Biden Urged To Pick Black VP, Not Klobuchar As Minneapolis Killing Stokes Racial Tensions
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Final Quarter of 2020 Check-in - Milwaukee Community Journal
Wow! That is the word that comes to mind as we think of all that has come into play of our regular everyday lives this year. The current state of the world is still a complete shock. The action of adjusting is still taking place as we don’t know what is to come daily. If
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Texas Southern University modifies fall academic calendar
Texas Southern University will move to a modified 13-week schedule for the upcoming fall semester, which has students completing the term prior to the traditional Thanksgiving
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Retired Immaculate Principal Sister Angella Harris dies
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Harris, Sherry D. (1957- )
Sherry D. Harris was the first out black lesbian elected to public office in 1991 in the United States. This also gave her the distinction of being the first African American woman on the Seattle City Council in Washington
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Source: Black Past
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27
1957
Kamala Harris and Cory Booker call out Rand Paul for stalling anti-lynching legislation
It became very emotional on the Senate floor as Democratic senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker debated anti-lynching legislation that is being held up by Republican Sen. Rand
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Biden’s VP List Narrows | Afro
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Vanzant, Iyanla (1953- )
Rhonda Eva Harris was born in the back of a taxi to Sarah Jefferson, a railroad car maid. Her father, Horace Harris, a petty criminal, was largely absent from Rhonda’s life.  When Sarah Jefferson died from breast cancer in 1957, Rhonda went to live with various paternal relatives, one of whom raped
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Landscape by 19th century Black abolitionist painter given to President Biden as inaugural gift
Alongside two U.S. flags and a pair of commemorative vases, newly swornin President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris received an artwork as a gift: Robert S. Duncanson’s Landscape with Rainbow, an 1859 painting on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in
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Four years in, Trump has plenty of unfinished business - Black News Channel
By AAMER MADHANI and DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump swept into office nearly four years ago as an outsider who promised to get things done quickly on behalf of the American people through sheer force of will and unrivaled knowledge about the art of the
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'Y'all Think We Resemble?': Yandy Smith Questions Fans After They Claim She and Husband Mendeecees Look Like Siblings
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'A jail sentence violates my rights' - ANC's Andile Lungisa pleads for mercy
Andile Lungisa, the ANC stalwart who violently assaulted a fellow councillor, has argued that the 'undignified state of prisons' does not suit him.
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Fathers of NBA players discuss raising strong Black children
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Parents allowed to remove students from Black History Month lessons
A charter school in northern Utah is allowing parents to opt students out of its Black History Month curriculum and the decision has sparked a debate. Micah Hirokawa, director of Maria Montessori Academy said on the school’s Facebook page on Friday that he “reluctantly” sent out a letter
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Texas pastors under fire for referring to Kamala Harris as racist trope - TheGrio
Two white pastors in Texas are under fire for reportedly calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “jezebel” from their pulpits. ... View Article The post Texas pastors under fire for referring to Kamala Harris as racist trope appeared first on TheGrio.
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Harris, Jr., Dr. Homer E. (1916- 2007 )
Homer Harris was born on March 4, 1916 in Seattle, Washington.  In 1933, Harris became the first black captain of the football team at Garfield High School in Seattle.  At the University of Iowa, Homer was elected by his teammates to be team captain, most inspirational, and Most Valuable
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14
2005
Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment | New York Carib News
Paul, who has been holding up popular bipartisan legislation to make lynching a federal crime, came to the Senate floor in Washington to add an amendment to the anti-lynching legislation and then pass
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Harris, Barbara C. (1930- )
Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930. After graduating from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism, she joined Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc., a black-owned public relations
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