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Melinda Gates Gives Allyson Felix A Grant For Black Maternal Health | Essence

Olympic track athlete Allyson Felix is fighting to improve health outcomes for Black mothers, and Melinda French Gates is backing her up. Melinda French Gates donated $20 million to Felix […]

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Turner, Benjamin Sterling (1825-1894)

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(1860) Frederick Douglass, “the Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery?”

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Allen University [South Carolina] (1870 - )

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George Washington Carver

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(1898) Margaret Murray Washington, “We Must Have a Cleaner Social Morality,”

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