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Cook, Suzan Denise Johnson (1957– )
Suzan Johnson Cook is a religious leader, pastor, motivational speaker, and diplomat who was born on January 28, 1957, in Harlem, New York. Her father, Wilbert Johnson, was a trolley driver and later founder of a successful security company, and her mother Dorothy Johnson, was a public school
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Rwanda: British Scholar Likens Kabuga to Nazi-Era Adolf Eichmann
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Dawson, William Levi (1886-1970)
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Evans, Annie/Evanti, Lillian (1891-1967)
Lillian (Evans) Evanti, one of the first African American women to become an internationally prominent opera performer, was born in Washington D.C. in 1891.  Evanti was born into a prominent Washington, D.C. family.  Her father, Wilson Evans, was a medical doctor and teacher in the city.  He was
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1967
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Donald Goines
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Egypt
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Britton, Theodore R., Jr. (1925- )
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Barack Obama
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28 Unknown Facts: Black History
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