Introducing the First Black Woman-Owned Skateboard Company

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Introducing the First Black Woman-Owned Skateboard Company

Founded by artist Latosha Stone in 2013, the skateboarding lifestyle brand Proper Gnar is experiencing a precipitous rise in popularity and product orders following its recent feature on performing artist Beyoncé Knowles’

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The Philadelphia race riot of 1964 began on the evening of August 28, after a black woman named Odessa Bradford got into an argument with two police officers. Bradford had stopped the car while arguing with her boyfriend, refusing to move out of the intersection at 23rd Street and Columbia

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Frederick Douglass

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