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Archibald Lee Wright
Archibald Lee Wright is born in Benoit, Mississippi. Better known as Archie Moore, he will become a boxer and win the light heavyweight crown in 1952. He will reign as champion until 1960.
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Dec
13
1913
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley , in full Robert White Creeley (born May 21, 1926, Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died March 30, 2005, Odessa, Texas), American poet and founder of the Black Mountain movement of the 1950s (see Black Mountain
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Mar
30
2005
Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown "Something In Common" [Soul Train Music Awards 1994]
Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown Something In Common
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Mar
15
1994
The Game Gifts Four People $20,000 Each During COVID-19 Crisis
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(1850) Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed”
Lucy Stanton was probably the first African American woman to complete a four-year collegiate course of study. Stanton, the daughter of John Brown, a Cleveland barber active in the Underground Railroad, enrolled in nearby Oberlin Collegiate Institute (now Oberlin College) in northern Ohio. The
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Hathor
Hathor hăth´ôr [key], in Egyptian religion, celestial goddess of love and festivity. The personification of the sky, she was represented as a star-studded cow or as a woman with the head of a cow. She was identified with many other goddesses of fertility and love, such as Aphrodite. Her name also
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'You and Your Man Look Sexy': Joseline Hernandez's Sultry Couple Pic with Her Fiancé Leaves Fans Fawning Over Their Love
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Franklin, Aretha
Franklin, Aretha, 1942–, American singer, b. Memphis. She began singing in the choir of her fathers church. Known as the Queen of Soul, she recorded such hits as Respect, Chain of Fools, and Whos Zoomin Who, (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman, and Highway of
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Biography and Personal Life of Oprah Winfrey
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Quincy Jones was born
Quincy Jones, Music Impresario, Born March 14, 1933 in Chicago’s South
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Mar
14
1933
Whitney Houston (with Bobbi-Kristina) live Poland 1999 - My Love is Your Love (HD)
Whitney Houston (ft. her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown) - My Love Is Your Love - Duration: 4:06. miksimpatikwhitney 3,719,930 views
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Don't Leave Me This Way
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Jazz artist George Benson born
George Benson, jazz guitarist, protege and student of guitarist extraordinaire Chet Atkins, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Among Bensons hits are Breezin, Masquerade, The Greatest Love of All, and Love X Love.
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Mar
2
1943
James Ingram - I Don't Have The Heart [HQ]
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Professional and Business Men's Club
From its founding in 1946 by Black professional and business men of Boston until its closing in 1987, the Professional and Business Men's Club, also called the P&B, was a unique community institution at 542 Massachusetts Avenue. It was 'a place where you could get know ‘something' or
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Nina Simone born
Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon), 66, singer (I Love You Porgy, Trouble in Mind) born Tryon, NC, Feb 21, 19933.
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21
1993
Superstar Singer
Dorchester's own Donna Summer revolutionized the music industry's disco craze with the release of the 'mega-hit,' 'Love to Love You, Baby,' in 1977.
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David J. Albritton
David J. Albritton is Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at Exelis Inc., a $5.5 billion global aerospace, defense and information solutions company. In his current role, he is responsible for global reputation management, shareholder communications, executive communications, public
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'Look at That Glow': Ciara Stuns Fans with Her Growing Baby Bump and Radiant Looks
According to her legion of followers, soon-to-be mommy of three Ciara has an undeniable pregnancy glow that is even brighter when the sun is shining its rays upon
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Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Lyrics: If I should stay I would only be in your way So Ill go but I know Ill thinkof you every step of the way And I... will always love you, ooh Will always love you You My darling, you... That is all Im taking with me. So good-bye. Please dont cry: We both know Im not what you, you need And I...
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Important People in Ancient African History
Most of the following ancient Africans became famous through contact with ancient Rome. The history of Romes contact with ancient Africa begins before the period when history is considered reliable. It goes back to the days when the legendary founder of the Roman race, Aeneas, stayed with Dido in
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Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack is known as a singer of soulful jazz and pop ballads. Her particular heyday was the 1970s, when she recorded a string of hits including Feel Like Makin Love and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. (The latter was included on the jazz-tinged soundtrack for Clint Eastwoods 1971 film
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A Rhetorical Analysis of Claude McKay's "Africa"
In this critical essay, student Heather Glover offers a concise rhetorical analysis of the sonnet Africa by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay. McKays poem originally appeared in the collection Harlem Shadows (1922). Heather Glover composed her essay in April 2005 for a course in rhetoric at
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First Black Grandmaster
Maurice Ashley, an immigrant from Jamaica, was 14 and living in Brooklyn, when he feel in love with the game of chess after reading a book about Paul Morphy, a 19th-century Louisianian who was Americas first great chess
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17
1999
Elijah Muhammad, born
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Oct
10
1897
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Walker, Alice M. (1944- )
The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Alice Walker was born the eighth child of sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker became the valedictorian of her segregated high school class, despite an accident at
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Feb
9
1944
The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King
April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and
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Apr
4
1968
Sam Cooke - Change is Gonna Come - Anfiteatro (Argentina) Cover by Alex Serra
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