CDC Begs Americans Not To Travel for Thanksgiving

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CDC Begs Americans Not To Travel for Thanksgiving

NEW YORK (AP) — With the coronavirus surging out of control, the nation’s top public health agency pleaded with Americans on Thursday not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household. It was some of the firmest guidance yet from the government on curtailing traditional gatherings to […]

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On June 16, 1858, only three hours after he received the Republican nomination for the United States Senate from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln gave his A House Divided speech, perhaps the most famous oration from an anti-slavery politician delivered before the U.S. Civil War. That speech appears

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Barbara Hillary is the first African American woman on record to reach both the North and South Poles. Born in New York City, New York on June 12, 1931 to Viola Jones Hillary and raised in Harlem, Hillary attended the New School University in New York, N.Y. where she earned both her Bachelor of

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Bullard, Eugene James ["Jacques"] (1895-1961)

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Waldon, Alton Ronald, Jr. (1936–)

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Bessie Coleman was the first female African American pilot. She was born on January 26, 1892 and was the tenth of thirteen children born to George and Susan Coleman in Atlanta, Texas. Her father was of Native and African American descent. She attended a small school which was four miles from her

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Gaspard, Patrick (1967- )

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Ellison, Ralph (Ralph Waldo Ellison), 1914–94, African-American author, b. Oklahoma City studied Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee Univ.). Originally a trumpet player and aspiring composer, he moved (1936) to New York City, where he met Langston Hughes , who became his mentor, and became friends

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Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007)

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Having a sharecropper and a slave as his ancestors, the eighth child of Munn and Lilly Barrow, Joseph Louis Barrow, was born on May 14, 1914, in a cotton-field country near Alabama. Belonging to a financially weak family, Joe Louis received little education as a child and worked odd jobs in order

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Lemon, Don (1966- )

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