Storm Reid Prepares Us For California Sun With Her Summer Arashiblu Collection

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Storm Reid Prepares Us For California Sun With Her Summer Arashiblu Collection

It's time to have some fun in the sun! And thanks to actress and producer Storm Reid, she is officially helping us kick off the season with her Storm Reid […]

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Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical (Alabama A & M) University is a historically black university located in the city of Normal, Alabama. The school began in 1875 when Alabama officials used the Morrill Act of 1862 allowing state governments to establish colleges for African American

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Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003)

Idi Amin was the Ugandan military dictator and President from 1971 to 1979. During his reign Amin’s military forces are estimated to have killed 500,000 people and exiled roughly 70,000 non-Ugandan nationals (mostly Indians) from

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Adams, R. Miller

R. Miller Adams focuses his efforts on the private equity component of Triad Capital Partners. Miller started his career practicing law in a downtown Seattle firm focusing on business, sports, and entertainment law and early stage technology companies. He then spent a decade as a senior executive

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Boxer Floyd Patterson born

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson was born in Waco, North Carolina. A 1952 Olympic gold medalist, Patterson fought 64 times and won 40 bouts by knockout.

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Jan

4

1935

Reverse Policy of Distributuing land to freedmen

President Andrew Johnson moved to reverse policy of distributing abandoned land to freedmen.

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Aug

5

1864

Dr. Harold D. West

Dr. Harold D. West is named President of Meharry Medical College

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Jun

14

1952

Nina Simone, singer, dies in Paris, France at the age of 70.

Nina Simone, singer, dies in Paris, France at the age of 70.

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2003

Paris Exposition

African-American painter Henry O. Tanner was one of the 6,916 American exhibitors at the Paris Expoition which closed its gates on this day. Tanner won a silver medal for his entry.

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Nov

12

1900

William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor

William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to hold a Cabinet level position

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Jan

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1975

Mansa Musa I was considered the Mandingo Empire of Malis greatest king. Ruling an area at one time comparable in size to all of Western Europe, Mansa Musas empire was one of considerable wealth. Along with natural resources such as silver, gold, copper, and salt, it cultivated crops such as

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Attorney General George Williams

Attorney General George Williams sent a telegram to Acting Governor Pinchback, saying that the Black politician was recognized by the President as the lawful executive of Louisiana.

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Dec

12

1872

(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”

Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional

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May

8

1879

Delegation urges suffrage for blacks

A delegation of blacks, led by Frederick Douglass, visited President Johnson and urged that suffrage be given to all qualified blacks.

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2000

Alice Coachman, becomes the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the high jump during the Summer Games in London

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Aug

7

1948

Jackson, James Lloyd (1920-2008)

James Lloyd Jackson was one of the little known heroes of the D-Day Landing at Normandy Beach in France in 1944. Jackson was born in Lakeland, Florida on February 25, 1920 to Essie May Holly and Amos Jackson. He graduated from Lakeland High School in 1938. For the next five years he worked for the

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Dec

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1953

Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter run, went to"Long" John Woodruff, 1936

Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter run, went to Long John Woodruff, 1936

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Aug

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1936

Educator Joseph Charles Price was born

Few Individuals have made the impact on their times or left the legacy to their beneficiaries as did Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone

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Feb

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1854

A Black Holocaust In America

The Tulsa Riot of 1921

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May

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1921

Ethiopia Invaded by Italy

Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior

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1935

First Aboriginal Senator Chosen

First Aboriginal Senator Chosen

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May

23

1971

Condoleezza Rice

Born: /4/954 Birmingham, AlabamaCondoleezza Condi Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. BushBusiness / Schooling:

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Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Andrew F. Brimmer, economist and former Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania, is nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to serve as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System. This appointment represented the first black to serve in this capacity.

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Apr

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1966

Norbert Rillieux, Inventor and Egyptologist, born

Norbert Rillieux, chemical engineer, inventor and Egyptologist, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of an inventor and engineer, Rillieux was educated in Paris schools and, at 24, became an instructor at LEcole Centrale and published papers on steam economy. Rillieux is best known for

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1806

Serena Williams

Born: 9/26/1981 Saginaw, MichiganAmerican professional tennis player who is ranked No. 1 in womens singles tennis. The Womens Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and achieved this

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Baseball Outfielder William "Bill" White born

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Jan

28

1934

Pan-African Congress

W.E.B. DuBois convened the first Pan-African Congress, the first world conference for blacks, in Paris in 1919.

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1919

Josephine Baker

Born: 6/3/1906 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 4/12/1975 Paris, FranceJosephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the Black Pearl, Bronze Venus and even the Creole Goddess. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri,Baker was

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Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-be, Paul Child, served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and

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Withers, John Lovelle, II (1948- )

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Spingarn Medal: Clarence Mitchell Jr.

Clarence Mitchell Jr., director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP, awarded the Spingarn Medal for the pivotal role he....played in enactment of civil rights

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