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July 17: The Lovely Diahann Carrol Was Born Today in 1935
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Supreme Court declines to revisit ruling on Florida felon voting eligibility
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Five years earlier and over a thousand miles away in Baltimore, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, uttered those same words, "I can't breathe," while in police custody, according to trial testimony. Gray died from his injuries one week
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John Lewis: Civil Rights Lion Gets into Good Trouble in Dawn Porter Documentary - Black News Channel
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