Africa: How Did Trump Get This Far?

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Africa: How Did Trump Get This Far?

[IPS] Miami -- To believe that Biden's triumph is the end of the drama that has unfolded since January 2016 is an example of a mirage with fatal consequences. Pretending that those more than 70 million voters who have followed Trump to the end will disappear from the map on January 20 with the inauguration of Biden and Harris reveals a blindness to how much America has changed in recent generations.

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Joseph W. Hatchett sworn in as first Black supreme court justice in the South in the twentieth century.

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1975

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The first black to perform with an American opera company was Caterina Jarboro, who was featured in a Chicago Opera Company production of Aida at the New York Hippodrome on July 22, 1933. She also sang the title role of the opera in Milan, Italy, in May, 1930. La Julia Rhea sang the role of Aida in

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9

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16

1970

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10

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Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. elected president of Michigan State University and became the first Black to head a major, predominantly white university in the twentieth century.

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17

1969

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4

1915

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29

1972

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1978

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1946

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1968

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1962

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