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Busy morning at TPA as passengers try to beat storm

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The countdown is on for travelers at Tampa International Airport as they try to beat the winter storm expected to bring holiday travel to a standstill nationwide Thursday and Friday. Even before the worst of the winter weather sweeps across the country, holiday travelers at TPA are seeing red on the […]

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First Black Settlement on the Continent

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 16: "102nd U.S. Colored Regiment"

On May 22, 1863, the United States War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops to organize and handle the enlistment of black troops into the Union Army. Colored infantries were formed all across the country. On May 23, 1864, the First Michigan Colored Volunteer Infantry was

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Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is a professional tennis player, ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis as of August 2014, a rank she has held 5 times in her career. She is the younger sister of tennis star Venus Williams. She was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan to Richard and Oracene

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26

1981

DaMarcus Beasley

DaMarcus Beasley is a retired professional soccer player. He was born on May 24, 1982 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He played soccer in high school and also participated in the 1999 under 17 soccer World Cup held in New Zealand. His outstanding performance won him the prestigious silver ball award for

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1982

283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores

On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The

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1827

Taylor, John (1952- )

John David Beckett Taylor, the Baron of Warwick, was born on September 21, 1952 in Birmingham, England. His parents, Derief, a professional cricket player, and Enid, a nurse, were originally from Jamaica. Taylor was educated at Moseley Grammar School and later studied English Literature and Law at

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Sep

21

1952

(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

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Mueller, Robert, Seattle, Washington

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Central Life Insurance Company, the last surviving African American owned insura

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1991

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McKinney, Cynthia Ann (1955- )

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2006

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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National Black Chamber of Commerce

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How Did Jackie Robinson Make History?

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James, G. Winston (1967- )

Poet, author, and essayist, G. Winston James was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1971 at the age of three, grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, and graduated from Paterson Catholic Regional High School. James, who has lived in New York and Florida for

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What Comes Naturally: The Loving v. Virginia Case in Historical Perspective

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1967

Wygant Et. Al. v. Jackson Board of Education Et. Al. (1986)

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1936

Florida A&M University [Tallahassee] (1887- )

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1887

Walls, Josiah Thomas (1832–1905)

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1842

(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

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Hammon, Briton ( ?? - ??)

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Forty-second Congress convened

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Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014)[1] was an American politician who served as the second Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of

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Forty-third Congress (1873-75) Convened

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1873

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1860

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1955

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