Op-ed: Happy Valentine's Day

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Op-ed: Happy Valentine's Day

By Sharon Williams Valentine's Day is a day to show the one you love how much you love them dearly and care about them. Our black love is different from other loves because black love is expressed through soul food cooking, soul music, cultural experiences, strength, creativity, and sacrifices. I would like to give you […]

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United Negro College Fund (1944– )

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was founded on April 25, 1944 by Frederick Patterson, President of the Tuskegee Institute, and Mary McLeod Bethune, an advisor to the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, to provide a steady, consistent stream of funding to 27 financially struggling small

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1944

African America’s First Protest Meeting: Black Philadelphians Reject the American Colonization Society Plans for Their Resettlem

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(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"

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(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”

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20

1946

Billie Holiday was a legendary American jazz singer, songwriter and actress. She was born as Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915 to Sarah Julia Fagan and Clarence Holiday. Her parents were neither married, nor living together and Clarence left the family when Billie was just a child. Her mother moved

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Jul

17

1959

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Dominique Wilkins

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Jan

12

1960

Reginald F. Lewis

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7

1942

Revels, Hiram Rhoades (1827?–1901)

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(1949) Ralph J. Bunche, “The Barriers of Race Can be Surmounted”

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30

1949

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Sep

6

1972

(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

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3

1868

The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

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Mo’Nique is a renowned contemporary African American actress, comedian, talk show host and author. She is best known for her role in the UPN series The Parkers as Nikki Parker. Moreover, she has hosted a number of shows as a stand-up comedian like Showtime at the Apollo. Later in her professional

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11

1967

Douglass, Frederick

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6

1950

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5

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2

1908

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30

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18

1932

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17

1923

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24

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