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‘Scarface’ Reboot In The Works
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Serena Williams is Sports Illustrated’s 2015 Sportsperson of the Year
Sports Illustrated names Serena Williams the 2015 Sportsperson of the Year. The tennis superstar dominated the sport by winning three major titles and completing her second “Serena Slam” – she won four consecutive Grand Slam titles dating back to the 2014 U.S. Open. Williams won 53 of
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Obamas, Oprah & Others Among Chicagoans Joining Librarians to Read Through “Live From the Library”
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Silk Celebrates the Power of Plants with Venus Williams and DJ Khaled
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Ghana: BoG Secures $1bn to Boost Dollar Liquidity ... Maintains Policy Rate At 14.5 Per Cent
The Governor of the BoG, Dr Ernest Addison, who said this in Accra yesterday during the 94th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) news conference to announce a new policy rate, said the bank had concluded negotiations with the U.S Federal Reserve to that
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US Autoworkers Return, While Possible Vaccine Shows Promise
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and
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ESPN's ‘The Last Dance’ shows Jordan's first retirement and Pippen's growth | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The critically acclaimed documentary “The Last Dance,” the story of legendary basketball player Michael Jordan and the 1997-1998 World Champion Chicago Bulls, debuted episodes 7 and 8 on Sunday night, May 10, on the ESPN
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Discover the Civil War at the National Archives
In this Inside the Vaults video short, the creators of the 2010 exhibit Discovering the Civil War share little-known facts and extraordinary discoveries from the Civil War holdings at the National Archives. The video also features rarely-seen original footage from Civil War reunions in 1917 in
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Patrick Ewing
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(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!
? For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in R
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Stevie Wonder
Occupation(s) Stevland Hardaway Morris (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins; May 13, 1950),[1] known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he is considered to be one of the most critically and commercial
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Patricia Bath
When Patricia Era Bath was born on November 4, 1942, she could have succumbed to the pressures and stresses associated with growing up in Harlem, New York. With the uncertainty present because of World War II and the challenges for members of Black communities in the 1940′s, one might little expect
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Celebrating Malcolm X, a warrior and master teacher –
No one whom I have ever met more clearly understood the realness of that observation than Brother Malcolm X, who himself once noted “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it
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Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is named Song and Record o
Roberta Flacks The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is named Song and Record of the Year at the Grammys.
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2002
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Venus Williams
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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Kenya: Senate Mulls Standing Orders Review to Adopt Virtual Sittings
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Dymally, Mervyn (1923- )
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally, an African American politician from Los Angeles, California who has served in the California Assembly, the State Senate and as a U.S. Congressman.  He is also the first African American Lt. Governor of California.  Dymally is now once again in the California
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1923
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Aug
21
2001
The Role of the Black Church During a Pandemic
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(1993) Clarence Thomas, “The New Intolerance - Law Day Address”
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Jim Crow laws
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Republican National Convention met in Philadelphia
Republican National Convention met in Philadelphia with substantial Black representation from Southern States. For the first time in American History, three Blacks addressed a major national political convention: Robert B. Elliot, Chairman of the South Carolina delegation; Joseph H. Rainy, South
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Jun
5
1872
Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers (1853-1890)
Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, a 19th century author and religious leader, was born in December 25, 1853 in Oglethorpe, Georgia into slavery.  She draws inspiration from that experience for her book The House of Bondage which was published after her death by her husband and daughter in 1890.  In
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1853
Africa: Retail and Online Sales Survey for Mobile Handsets and Tablets in 6 African Countries Shows How Sales Will Be Hit and Looks At the Bounce Back After Lockdown Ends
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Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Appears Before Paris Court
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Burke, Yvonne Braithwaite (1932- )
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