Rick Ross Pays $1 Millions For 87 Acres of Land Outside Atlanta

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Rick Ross Pays $1 Millions For 87 Acres of Land Outside Atlanta

Whether or not he uses the land for personal space or public enjoyment remains to be seen but regardless of what he does we know it'll be something that brings a hand rub and a smile to Ross' grizzly beard.

Source: The Urban Daily

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Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest boxers of all time. He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali was a fiercely serious child, who had experienced the harsh realities of racism at a very young age. He started training to be a boxer at the age of 12

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17

1942

Spelman College opened

Spelman College, an institution sponsored by John D. Rockefellers family, opened for Negro women in Atlanta, Georgia. It became the Radcliffe and the Sarah Lawrence of Negro education.

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Apr

11

1881

Indictment in Atlanta Murders

Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicted Wayne B. Williams, a twenty-three-year-old photographer, for the murder of two of the twenty-eight Black youths killed in a series of slayings and disappearances in Atlanta. William denied the charges but was convicted in February, 1982.

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Jul

17

1981

Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta from 1961-63, then transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1965… She was married to Melvyn Leventhal from 1967-77. They had one daughter, Rebecca, in 1969.

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W.E.B. DuBois and the Making of the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-1963

In their introduction to Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, co-editors Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah describe W.E.B. DuBois’s half century campaign to publish an encyclopedia that would encompass the African diaspora. That introduction appears

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Delegates and observers a convention

Two thousand delegates and observers attended Congress of African Peoples convention in Atlanta. (8/3-7).

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Aug

3

1970

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The leading scorer in the history of NBA, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won 6 of the most prestigious NBA titles, five of which were with the Los Angeles Lakers over a period of 20 years. His list of achievements is one of the most extraordinary in league’s history. Not only was Kareem a member of six NBA

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Apr

16

1947

Dobbs, Mattiwilda (1925- )

Mattiwilda Dobbs, an accomplished opera star, was born July 11, 1925 in Atlanta, Georgia. Although she was the fifth of six daughters and her father worked as a mail clerk, he was able to provide her and all of her sisters with a college education. Dobbs began singing and playing the piano as

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Mar

8

1954

Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee established in

Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee established in Atlanta.

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May

26

1961

Lavizzo, Blanche Sellers (1925-1984)

Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington. She arrived in Seattle in 1956, with her husband Dr. Philip Lavizzo, a general surgeon. They had left medical practices in New Orleans, Louisiana to pursue a better future in the Pacific

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Jul

11

1925

Marion Lois Jones, also called Marion Jones-Thompson is a respected retired American athlete and basketball player. She was born on October 12, 1975 Los Angeles, California and specialized in track and field races. Standing at 5 feet 10 inches and weighing 68 kilograms, Jones is most often

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Oct

12

1975

Bessie Smith was a blues and jazz vocalist, who was extremely popular in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Laura and William Smith. Her father was a Baptist preacher who died shortly after her birth, and she was raised by her mother along with her

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Apr

15

1894

Race riot, Atlanta

Race riot, Atlanta.

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Sep

6

1966

Morehouse School of Medicine [Atlanta] (1975- )

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), one of two historically black medical schools created in the twentieth century, was established in 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia. Former US Surgeon General David Satcher served as the institutions first president. The school was meant to be a two-year medical

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Historian and Political Scientist

Death of Dr. Clarence A. Bacote (75), historian and political scientist, in Atlanta.

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May

1

1981

Andrew Young elected to Congress

On this date in 1972, Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta, become the first African Americans from the south elected to Congress since Reconstruction.

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Nov

17

1972

Wiggins, Thomas “Blind Tom” (1849-1908)

Thomas Greene Wiggins was born May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, slaves on a Georgia plantation. He was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. In 1850 Tom, his parents, and two brothers were sold to James Neil Bethune, a lawyer and newspaper editor in

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Jun

13

1908

Leslie, Lisa Deshaun (1972- )

Lisa Deshaun Leslie is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Sparks in the Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA) for her twelve-year career from 1997 to 2009. She is a two-time WNBA champion, three-time WNBA MVP, and a four-time Olympic gold medal

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Actor Whitman Mayo dies

Whitman Mayo, best known for playing Grady on TVs Sandford & Son, died in Atlanta of a heart attack. He was 70.

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Jun

22

2001

(2009) Barack Obama, "A New Beginning Between the United States and the Muslim World"

On June 4, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama delivereda major speech addressing the relationship between the United States and theMuslim World at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. The text of the speech appears

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Events After Martin Luther King Jr's Death

Martin Luther King Jr. buried after funeral services at Ebenezer Baptist Church and memorial services at Morehouse College, Atlanta. More than 300,000 persons marched behind the coffin of the slain leader which was carried through streets of Atlanta on farm wagon pulled by two Georgia

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Apr

9

1968

Mayor of Atlanta

Andrew Young, Former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta.

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Oct

27

1981

Dr. Rufus Clement

Dr. Rufus Clement, president of Atlanta University elected to Atlanta Board of Education.

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Dec

2

1953

(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"

In early March 1965 much of the nations attention was focused on civil rights marches in and around Selma, Alabama. Activists led by Dr. Martin Luther King used these demonstrations to urge the federal government to act to end the denial of voting rights to tens of thousands of African Americans

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Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama

In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, describes her ongoing research on the Birmingham (Alabama) World and its longtime editor, Emory O. Jackson. Mangun is writing a cultural biography of Jackson and the

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Spike Lee is a famous American award winning director. His birth name is Shelton Jackson Lee and he was born in Atlanta, Georgia to an arts teacher named Jacqueline Carroll and a jazz musician named William James Edward Lee III. He was nicknamed “Spike” by his mother who encouraged his

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Literary Critic and Editor

Death of Hoyt J. Fuller (57), literary critic and editor of First World magazine and former editor of Black World, in Atlanta.

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May

11

1981

Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1847- )

Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church is the oldest African American church in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Like Wheat Street, First Congregational, and the King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, Bethel A.M.E. has been a religious, social, economic, and cultural pillar of the African

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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”

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Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal was born on March 6, 1972 in New Jersey. He is a retired NBA player, former rapper, former actor and currently, an analyst on Inside NBA. He was drafted by Orlando Magic in 1992 and was suddenly thrown into the spot light. He shined brightly, winning Rookie of the Year in

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