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Union Bethel AME Church, Great Falls, Montana (1890- )
The Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Great Falls, Montana, is one of the state’s oldest active
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Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing
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Shepard, Shawn
Shawn Shepard is a multimedia producer in Atlanta, Georgia. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, He majored in radio, television, and film at Clark Atlanta University, in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in
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Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters was a twentieth century African American blues musician. He is deemed the “father of modern Chicago blues” and influenced the 1960s generation of England which resulted in the appearance of British
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Apr
4
1913
First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, California, (1872- )
The First African Methodist Episcopal (FAME) Church is today the oldest and one of the largest African American congregations in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1872 by Bridget (Biddy) Mason who arrived as a slave in Los Angeles with her owner in 1856. However, since California was
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Singer Roberta Flack born
b. 10 February 1937, Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Born into a musical family, Flack graduated from Howard University with a BA in music. She was discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by pianist Les McCann, who recommended her talents to Atlantic Records. Two classy
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10
1940
Darius Rucker
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Ku Klux Klan
KKK redirects here. The Ku Klux Klan (pronounced /ˈ k uː ˈ k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˈ k j uː/),[a] commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white
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Dec
24
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Spruce Street Baptist Church (1835- )
Spruce Street Baptist Church is one of the oldest black churches in Nashville, Tennessee. It is also one of three churches to evolve out of Nashville’s First Colored Baptist Church (1865-1891).  In 1835 First Colored Baptist Church (FCBC) began with separate prayer services for the black members of
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Jul
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First Baptist Church, Richmond (1780-- )
The First Baptist Church, founded in 1780 by Joshua Morris, emerged in the aftermath of the Great Awakening religious revival movement (1730s-1770s) that spread across the South.  In contrast to the other churches in Richmond organized during the same time, the First Baptist attracted both black
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Tracy Chapman - Give me one reason
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Minister Lott Cary left the United States leading a group of freed slaves, most of whom were members of the American Colonization Society, to colonize a small portion of West Africa. This area became known as the Republic of Liberia in 1847.
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1821
Coppin State University [Baltimore] (1900-- )
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Born to a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother in Hackney, London, Paul Yaw Boateng became one of the first black British Members of Parliament in the general election of 1987. In 2002 he became the first Afro-Briton to serve in the Prime Ministers Cabinet.  The family moved to Ghana when Boateng
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1850
Lincoln University [Jefferson City] (1866- )
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1866
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Clark Memorial United Methodist Church (1865– )
Clark Memorial United Methodist Church is the oldest black United Methodist Church (UMC) in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1865 the Methodist Episcopal Church sent Bishop Davis W. Clark to Nashville to reorganize the Negro mission at Andrew Chapel, located on Franklin Street in South Nashville. The
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Mar
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1945
Nobel Memorial Prize In Economics
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1979
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