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Tanya C. Clemons
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Michael L. Lomax
Michael L. Lomax is President & Chief Executive Officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). In this role, Lomax leads the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships and other educational support to African-American students. Under his leadership, UNCF has raised $2.3 billion and
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Daniel F. Malan
Daniel F. Malan , in full Daniel François Malan (born May 22, 1874, near Riebeeck West, Cape Colony [now in Western Cape, S.Af.]—died Feb. 7, 1959, Stellenbosch, S.Af.), statesman and politician who formed South Africa’s first exclusively Afrikaner government and instituted the policy of
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22
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Tucker Carlson, Journalist Zaid Jilani Think Focusing On One Group’s Suffering From Coronavirus Over Others Is Wrong
Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers Monday that media personalities like CNN’s Don Lemon are equating the coronavirus with racism, leaving us “paranoid and
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Charley Pride
Charley Pride , in full Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938, Sledge, Mississippi, U.S.), American country music singer who broke new ground in the 1960s by becoming the most successful African American star that the field had known to date and a significant next-generation standard bearer for
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Sylvia Taylor
Sylvia Taylor is the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for The Weather Channel. In her current role as EVP of Human Resources for The Weather Channel, Sylvia is responsible for designing and executing the Human Resources Strategy for the company, implementing key initiatives in Change
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Art Historian
Art historian Edmund B. Gaither, curator and director of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, has been a leading spokesman for the Black artist in Boston for over 25 years. He is internationally known as an advocate of African-American visual artists and as a contributor to
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Percy Julian
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Rahm Emanuel tells Spike Lee he's not happy about Chiraq title
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AiR's Latest e-book 'FEAR - False Expectations Appearing Real' Addresses the Current Crisis and Shows the way Forward
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Uhuru Kenyatta
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Distinguished Chemical Engineer
In 1979 chemical engineer James Porter (Ph.D.) founded his own firm, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Inc., in Cambridge, which became the first minority-owned firm in the nation to receive U.S. Environmental Agency laboratory contracts. Before founding his own firm, he established the
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Anthony A. Williams
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President Obama Appoints Dr. Michael Nettles to Key Administration Post
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Robert C. Hayden, Author/Historian
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Roger Milla
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20
1952
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Star in FENCES coming to Blu-ray & DVD
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President of Boston Bar Association
In 1989 Rudolph F. Pierce became the first African-American to be elected President of the Boston Bar Association, the oldest local bar association in the nation, founded in 1761 by John Adams.
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Pamela Culpepper
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Fela Kuti
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Early Leader in Shipping and in Civil Rights
Paul Cuffe of the Westport-New Bedford area became a prosperous merchant, mariner, ship builder and owner between 1780 and 1810. He pioneered the opening up of trade with West African countries, using his own ships. He was also the nation's first Black millionaire who used his considerable
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Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje
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