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Police warn business operators to be vigilant

Business operators are being warned to be more vigilant when doing cash transactions, especially those involving foreign exchange, with members of the public. This advice comes on the heels of the arrest of 52-year-old Kenroy Williams of a May Pen...

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Pharrell Williams

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Born: 9/26/1981 Saginaw, MichiganAmerican professional tennis player who is ranked No. 1 in womens singles tennis. The Womens Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and achieved this

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to a long line of preachers. His father, Martin Luther King, Sr. was a pastor for the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His maternal grandfather, the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, was famous for his fiery sermons. His

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Sports Illustrated names Serena Williams the 2015 Sportsperson of the Year. The tennis superstar dominated the sport by winning three major titles and completing her second “Serena Slam” – she won four consecutive Grand Slam titles dating back to the 2014 U.S. Open. Williams won 53 of

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African-American journalist Ida B. Wells went to heroic lengths in the late 1890s to document the horrifying practice of lynching blacks. Her groundbreaking work, which included collecting statistics in a practice that today is called data journalism, established that the lawless killing of blacks

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Michael P. Johnson

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Elease E. Wright

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Gayton, John T. (1866-1954)

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Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams

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Dec

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Pioneer in surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams dies, 1931

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1931

Report: Man Who Fired Shotgun at 14-Year-Old Black Boy Wants Sentence Tossed, Argues He Should Not Be Judged By Criminal Record

In April 2018, 14-year-old Brennan Walker missed a school bus in Oakland County and decided to knock on Jeffrey Zeigler’s door to ask for directions, according to Fox

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Raila orders purge in ODM

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George Washington Williams, the first major Black

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Oct

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Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in Tarrytown, New York on March 18, 1963.

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Mar

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1922

Georgia Infirmary (1832 - )

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