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Naomi Osaka and LeBron James Named Associated Press Female and Male Athletes of the Year

[Photos: Naomi Osaka and LeBron James via commons.wikipedia.org] Tennis champion and NBA champion Naomi Osaka and LeBron James were recently voted Female Athlete of the Year and Male Athlete of the…

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Leonard Randolph Wilkens was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 1937, son of an African American father and white mother. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, one of the toughest sections in the city, where he endured many hardships, including the loss of his father at a young

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Georgia legislature reconvened and admitted Black representatives and senators.

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Booker T. Washington

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Howard T Ward becomes Georgia's first Black Superior Court Judge

Howard T Ward becomes Georgias first Black Superior Court Judge

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(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"

Controversial remarks drawn from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unpaid campaign advisor to Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, and his pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, emerged as a lingering issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. On March

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2008

Julius Erving scores his 25,000th career point, becoming the ninth professional basketball player to achieve this mark.

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20

1983

Hicks, John F. (1949- )

John F. Hicks is a diplomat and global educator who served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN). A native of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Hicks was born in 1949. Hicks holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Morehouse College, a diploma and master’s degree from Johns

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Associated Press reported that more than one

Associated Press reported that more than one thousand Blacks had been arrested in sit-in demonstrations.

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1

1960

Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women's Rights Convention, Akron Ohio

Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Womens Rights Convention, Akron Ohio

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25

1851

Ebony, a pictorial news magazine published by Chicago, Illinois-based Johnson Publishing Company, first appeared in November 1945. Created by John H. Johnson, who modeled his publication after Life magazine, Ebony celebrated African American life and culture by depicting the achievements of black

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Maggie Lena Walker

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15

1934

Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. Wright, Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all

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

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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary

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19

1959

Birthday of basketball great, Patrick Ewing.

Birthday of basketball great, Patrick Ewing.

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5

1962

Dziko, Trish Millines (1957- )

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1996

La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

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Pres. Kennedy Supports Blacks

President Kennedy denounced the burning of churches in Georgia and supported voter registration drive in the South.

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13

1962

Georgia constitutional convention

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Dec

9

1867

Journalist Ralph Waldo Tyler born

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18

1860

(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”

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1964 After 12 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of

1964 After 12 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of

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10

1964

Scores injured in Klan-related incidents

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15

1980

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1992

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Born on April 27, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan, George Gervin is a retired professional basketball player who is known to be one of the greatest shooting guards in NBA

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