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Nick Cannon has the internet concerned about his well-being after tweets suggest he isn’t doing well following his ViacomCBS firing over anti-Semitic comments made on […]

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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

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20

1743

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9

1963

Reginald Martinez Jackson is born

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18

1946

Denzel Washington Born

Actor Denzel Washington was born on this day in Mount Vernon, NY. Washington will star in such films as Malcolm X, Glory, Much Ado about Nothing, and A Soldiers Story. He will have a start in television in his role on popular show St. Elsewhere. He will win an Academy Award for best supporting

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28

1954

Ernie Davis dies

Ernie Davis, star running back at Syracuse University; first black player to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961. Died on May 18, 1962 of leukemia before playing a pro game.

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1964

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1930

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Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American tennis star with 22 Grand Slam titles (7 Singles, 13 Doubles, 2 Mixed Doubles) and 4 Olympic Gold Medals and is known as one of the best players of her generation. She is the elder sister of Serena Williams who holds 33 Grand Slam titles to her

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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”

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Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti (1749 - )

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Lee, Jarena (1783–185?)

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1968

(1862) John S. Rock, “A Deep and Cruel Prejudice”

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1862

Singer Roberta Flack born

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