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O.J. Simpson
Name at birth: Orenthal James Simpson
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(1834) William Whipper, “The Slavery of Intemperance”
? By the 1830s William Whipper was a successful Pennsylvania lumberman. He was also an abolitionist and temperance advocate. Whipper’s interest in temperance reflected a growing concern among African American leaders about the impact of alcohol on the free (and enslaved) African American popula
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Howard University (1867– )
Howard University has been labeled “the capstone of Negro education,” because of its central role in the African American educational experience.  Among historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Howard has produced the greatest number of graduates with advanced
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Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson
Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York
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Egypt
Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan, and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. It is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas. Egypt is divided into two unequal, extremely arid regions by the
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Robeson, Paul
Robeson, Paul rōb´sən [key], 1898–1976, American actor and bass singer, b. Princeton, N.J. The son of a runaway slave who became a minister, Robeson graduated first from Rutgers (1919), where he was an All-American football player, and then from Columbia Univ. law school (1923). He began his
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Abbott, Cleveland Leigh (1892–1955)
Cleveland Leigh Abbott was born December 9, 1892 in Yankton, South Dakota. He is most remembered for his coaching career at Tuskegee Institute (now University) in
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago lie in the Caribbean Sea off the northeast coast of Venezuela. Trinidad, the larger at 1,864 sq mi (4,828 sq km), is mainly flat and rolling, with mountains in the north that reach a height of 3,085 ft (940 m) at Mount Aripo. Tobago, at just 116 sq mi (300 sq km), is heavily
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(1896) John Hope, “We Are Struggling For Equality,”
Five months after Booker T. Washington had announced his policy of accommodation at the Atlanta Exposition, John Hope, then a member of the faculty at Atlanta Baptist College, delivered his rebuttal in a speech before a black debating society in Nashville on George Washingtons birthday, 1896.  Part
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Jamaica
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Paul Bustill Robeson
Paul Bustill Robeson was born in
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1898
Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
In the following article historian Omar H. Ali explores a lesser-known aspect of the global African Diaspora, the spread of African peoples and their cultures throughout the Indian Ocean
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(1836) James Forten, Jr. “Put on the Armour of Righteousness”
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Barclay, Paris K.C. (1956- )
Paris K.C. Barclay is an award-winning American television director, producer, and LGBT rights activist.  In 2013, he broke new ground when he was named President of the Directors Guild of America, making him the first out gay male and the first African American to hold the
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1956
Trinidad and tobago
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Liberia
In a Nov. 2005 presidential runoff election, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated economist who had worked at the World Bank, defeated George Weah, a former world-class soccer star. In Jan. 2006 she became Africas first female president.
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Warren Moon
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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1956
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
The Congo, in west-central Africa, is bordered by the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one-quarter the size of the U.S. The principal rivers are the Ubangi and Bomu in the north and the Congo
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Moroni, Comoros (10th Century- )
Moroni is a coastal town that serves as the capital of Comoros, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. In 2003 the city had a population of 41,577 people making it the largest city in the archipelago.  It is simultaneously one of the least populous capitals on or near the African continent. Moroni is
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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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Mali
Mali mä´lē [key], officially Republic of Mali, independent republic (2005 est. pop. 12,292,000), 478,764 sq mi (1,240,000 sq km), the largest country in W Africa. Mali is bordered on the north by Algeria, on the east and southeast by Niger, on the south by Burkina Faso and Côte dIvoire, and on the
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Sentamu, John (1949- )
In 2005, John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was installed as the Anglican Church’s Archbishop of York.  Sentamu was born on June 10, 1949, the sixth of 13 children of Rev. John and Ruth Walakira in a village outside Kampala, Uganda. Taught by British missionaries and expatriates who encouraged his
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10
1949
Elgin Baylor
Elgin Gay Baylor was a professional basketball player, who played for Los Angeles Lakers. He was born on September 16, 1934 and began playing basketball from an early age. Two of his older brothers were also basketball players, and Baylor took naturally to the game. He was already known to be
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1934
Stokely Carmichael
Born: 6/29/1941 Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoDied: 11/15/1998 Conakry, Guinealso known as Kwame Turé, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he
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Reggie Bush
Name at birth: Reginald Alfred Bush II
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Djibouti
National name: Jumhouriyya Djibouti
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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History: A Brief History
In the following account Professor Malik Simba of California State University, Fresno, describes the century-long histry of the largest organized body dedicated to the research and promotion of African American
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3
1950
Gale Sayers
Gale Sayers was born on May 30, 1943, in Kansas to a family whose only bread winner was an auto mechanic. In 1951, Sayers and his family moved to Omaha where he grew up to an athletic child and showed natural ability in a number of sports, especially American
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1943
Barbados
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Egypt becomes a republic after the forced abdication of King Farouk I.
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18
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