Angel Reese Named WNBA Player Of The Week

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Angel Reese Named WNBA Player Of The Week

Angel Reese, who is set to play in the WNBA All-Star game, became the first rookie this season to achieve the feat.

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Arnold Bertonneau was a New Orleans wine merchant, black soldier, and is best known as one of the first African American participants in Louisiana’s Reconstruction period. In 1862-63, Bertonneau was a captain in the 1st Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards. This volunteer black regiment

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Few days on Twitter have matched the hilarity of Sunday when the collective Black diaspora came together to make an endless amount of jokes about a photo shared by British singer Adele . In honor of Notting Hill Carnival, Adele took to Instagram to show off her Bantu knots and Jamaican flag

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