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Cleaver, Eldridge (1935-1998)
Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights activist, was born on August 31, 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas.  Cleaver, a child of six, lived in a household where his father abused his mother.  The Cleavers moved to Phoenix, Arizona and finally settled in Los Angeles, California where Cleaver spent much
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Source: Black Past
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Aug
31
1935
Zephaniah, Benjamin (1958 - )
Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, playwright, novelist and activist, was born on April 15, 1958, the first of eight children, in Birmingham, England. Zephaniah grew up in Wandsworth until the age of nine when his mother, a Jamaican nurse, fled his father, a postman from Barbados. Leaving behind his twin
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15
1958
Clarke hailed as titan of Caribbean media
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How Colin Kaepernick's Critics Missed the Mark
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African Americans in New York City
African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City. The majority of the African American population largely claims descent from West and Central Africa by way of importation to the American South via the Atlantic slave trade (and a rarer presence of those
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Dr Sylvia Blyden refused bail by magistrate
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Jamaica: Thirty year-old Grandmas helping to raise child criminals, says Counsellor
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The shooting of Walter Scott occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light. Scott, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer. The race difference led many to
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4
2015
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America | Afro
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slave trade
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1999
Robber in court for $979 899 gold heist
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West Indian History: Biographies
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Louis, Joe
Louis, Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) lo͞o´ĭs [key], 1914–81, American boxer, b. Lafayette, Ala. His father, a sharecropper, died when Louis was four years old, and in 1926 his stepfather took the family to Detroit, where Louis became interested in boxing. At 18 he began an amateur career in the
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Saddler, Joseph/Grandmaster Flash (1958 - )
Although he will more than likely be remembered best for releasing “The Message,” the first rap song to delve into social commentary about the plight of African Americans in the inner-city, Grandmaster Flash was also the original technological virtuoso of the early hip-hop movement to
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13
1914
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The Exception but Never the Rule – Voice and Viewpoint
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FID targets assets after five convicted in $400m Manchester municipal fraud trial
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(1982) Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s”
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Give evidence to suspects, DPP told
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Joe Louis
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Shooting of Oscar Grant
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