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By Cheryl SmithPublisher Black women. The way the walk, talk, think, stretch a dollar, feed a community, make a boo boo all well, pray, move a mountain, fight off demons and so much more. When no one is at practice, sitting beside the hospital bed, posting bail, ready to battle a drug dealer or going […]

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William B. Powell Jr., one of the first African American physicians to receive a contract as a surgeon with the Union Army, was free born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1834. His father, William Powell Sr., also in the medical practice, was African American, and his mother was Native

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Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1847- )

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Christophe, Henri

Christophe, Henri äNrē´ krēstôf´ [key], 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader. A freed black slave, he aided Toussaint LOuverture in the liberation of Haiti and was army chief under Dessalines . When the latter declared himself emperor, Christophe took part (1806) in a successful plot against

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Jennings, Gladys (1925- )

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Rowan, Carl T. (1925–2000)

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Davis, Angela Yvonne

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Cook, Will Mercer (1903-1987)

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