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The CW has found its new Batwoman. Actress Javicia Leslie (God Friended Me) will take over the lead role in Batwoman Season 2. As previously reported, The CW isn't recasting the Kate Kane role following Ruby Rose's abrupt departure from Batwoman. Instead, Leslie has been cast as a new character named Ryan Wilder. Here's The... [Read More]

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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”

? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu

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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”

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Jones, David “Deacon” (1938-2013)

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(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”

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Bankhead, Mary Lucille Perkins (1902–1994)

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(1948) Henry A. Wallace, “Radio Address”

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

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(1997) Kweisi Mfume, “A Shining and Powerful Dream”

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(2001) Diahann Carroll, “Keeping Up the Good Fight, Winning the Crusade Against Cancer”

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2001

(1896) John Hope, “We Are Struggling For Equality,”

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(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”

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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary

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(1811) John Gloucester, “Dedication of the First African Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia”

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