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Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer Named Highest-Paid Female CEO In 2021

Despite the racial-gender wealth gap, there are some Black women shattering glass ceilings. According to a recent report, Roz Brewer is demolishing it. The Walgreens CEO was reported to be […]

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Cindy Lou Courville is an American diplomat and expert on Africa. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, to Earnest and Mar Courville in 1954, she grew up attending segregated schools until the eighth grade when she was among the first groups of African American children who began to integrate the local

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Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa opposite Mozambique. The worlds fourth-largest island, it is twice the size of Arizona. The countrys low-lying coastal area gives way to a central plateau. The once densely wooded interior has largely been cut

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Spelman College

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Richard Parsons

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(1916) Robert R. Moton, “A Life of Achievement”

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McMillian, Marco (1979-2013)

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(1866) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “We Are All Bound Up Together”

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Major General Augustus L. Collins (U.S. Army, Ret.)

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First inauguration of Barack Obama

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Anthony R. Chase

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Dymally, Mervyn (1923- )

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Erroll B. Davis

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Cain, Herman (1945- )

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Stacy Brown-Philpot

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Ronald E. Blaylock

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