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Michael Jones, or simply known as Mike Jones, is an American rapper, born in January 6, 1981, in Houston, Texas. He also pursues an acting career on an occasional basis. Jones initially wanted to pursue a different career than that in music, given his extraordinary craze for basketball. He

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Charles "Chuck" Cooper

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1950

Holmes, Benjamin M. (1846-1875)

Teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer, Benjamin M. Holmes was born a slave around 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina and bound as an apprentice to a black tailor. Holmes was eventually bought by a man named Kaylor, who employed him as a hotel clerk in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While

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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the

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Fort Lawton (Seattle) “Riot” and POW Lynching, 1944

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1944

Charles Edward Anderson--Meteorologist

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Sharpton, Alfred Charles “Al” (1954- )

Born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1954, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., is an American Baptist minister and political, social, and human rights advocate. Known as “the Wonder Boy” as a youth, he was licensed and ordained as a Pentecostal minister and toured with the gospel singer

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African Baptist Church [Boston] (1805- )

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Paul Robeson was an American singer, actor, civil rights activist, and college football player. He was exceptionally famous for his political views on anti-imperialism, communism, and the United States

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Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from the NBA.

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Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898)

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Dash, Julie (1952- )

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Sommersett, James (c1741-c1772)

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(1993) William J. Clinton, “The Freedom to Die"

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Portrait of Black Chicago

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(1996) California Proposition 209

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Denzel Washington

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Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee, track legend born

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1962

Wilson Riles elected superintendent of Public

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1970

Negritude Movement

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black basketball team captian

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Dinkins, David N. (1927- )

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Luke, Wing Chong (1925-1965)

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Tamblyn, George

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Pitre, Clayton (1924- )

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