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Africa: Powering Health Across Africa Through COVID-19 and a Changing Climate
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birth of John William "Blind" Boone
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Spelman College [Atlanta] (1881- )
Spelman College, a historically black, liberal arts college for women, opened in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1881.  The previous year, a fledgling New England organization called the Women’s American Baptist Home Mission Society secured funds for a college for freedwomen in the city. Approximately one
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COVID-19 recovery — My personal battle from a positive to a negative result
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Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
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A Biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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(1844) Charles Lenox Remond, “For the Dissolution of the Union”
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(1948) Bayard Rustin, “Jim Crow Army"
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