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Instagram Model With Celeb Ties Has AIDS, Twitter Contact Traces

There is no messiness like celebrity messiness. This case can involve some perilous consequences as an Instagram model tied to some notable names recently revealed she has been diagnosed with AIDS, and she isn't aware exactly how long she's had the debilitating and incurable disease. Gena Tew is the IG model in question, and she […]

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Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), founded in 1986 in New York City, is one of the oldest organizations working toward the welfare of black gay men in the United States. They began offering services for persons with AIDS toward the beginning of the US pandemic which started in

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Ex-football star O.J. Simpson is cleared today of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

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3

1995

Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal was born on March 6, 1972 in New Jersey. He is a retired NBA player, former rapper, former actor and currently, an analyst on Inside NBA. He was drafted by Orlando Magic in 1992 and was suddenly thrown into the spot light. He shined brightly, winning Rookie of the Year in

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6

1972

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Immigration Reform 2014 News: In an address from the White House, President Obama chose confrontation over conciliation as he asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation’s immigration

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Wednesday September 19, 1928, Palm Beach Post reported: Well over 1200 negro refugees quartered in the auditorium of the Negro high school, where they are being fed and many housed.... hospital features of the refugee unit are under direction of Dr. J.C.Hodges, colored, who since Sunday night has

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16

1928

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones is an American actor who is well known for an array of notable characters he has played in his movies. He was born in January 1931 to Robert Earl and Ruth Jones in Arkabutla, Mississippi. His father was an actor, boxer, butler, and chauffeur who left the family shortly after his

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An African native once kept in a Bronx zoo, Ota Benga, commits suicide. In 1906 the crowds thronged the monkey house exhibit at the Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park). Here were mans evolutionary ancestors - monkeys, chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, an orangutan named Dohung and a African of

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Mar

20

1916

(1875) Congressman James T. Rapier, “Half Free, Half Slave”

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1875

Paul Robeson and Japanese Americans, 1942-1949

One hero and friend of Japanese Americans, both individuals and the community generally, was Paul Robeson. Robeson was (after Joe Louis) the most popular and visible African American of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a celebrated stage actor and movie star, an internationally famous folk

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Johnson, Gregory Lee (1945- )

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Wilma Rudolph was an African American Olympic Athlete who competed in the Olympic Games of 1956 and 1960. She was also the first American Woman to win three gold medals in track and field events during a single Olympic

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1994

A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System

In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack

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Ernie Davis dies

Ernie Davis, star running back at Syracuse University; first black player to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961. Died on May 18, 1962 of leukemia before playing a pro game.

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18

1962

Hackley, Emma Azalia (1867-1922)

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1922

Waters, Ethel, 1896?–1977, African-American singer and actress, b. Chester, Pa. As a singer, she is noted for her sultry, sophisticated, and dramatic version of the blues, evinced in her interpretations of Am I Blue, Dinah, Heat Wave, Stormy Weather, and other songs. After beginning in

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North Carolina Central University (1910- )

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Williams, Camilla (1919-2012)

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Oct

2

1937

Deborrah Kaye Allen, better known as Debbie Allen, is an American choreographer and dancer from Houston, Texas. She was born on January 16, 1950 to Arthur Allen and Vivian Ayers. Her mother was a strong role model in her life, who took care of Debbie and her siblings when her parents got

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Jan

16

1950

Isaacs, Cheryl Boone (1949---)

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2013

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1989

Bill Pickett, dies

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Apr

24

1944

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17

1982

Cowboy Willie "Bill" Pickett dies

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1932

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20

1947

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1

1961

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