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Eric Holoman is the Operating Partner of Magic Johnson Enterprises and oversees the company’s day-to-day operations of its largest portfolio companies including President and CEO of EquiTrust, a $18 billion dollar life and annuity business, Managing Partner of JLC Infrastructure and Managing
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Brown, Cora Mae (1914-1972)
Cora Mae Brown was part of a generation of African American women who translated their community work into political struggle during the first half of the twentieth century.  Born in 1914 in Bessemer, Alabama, Brown’s family migrated to Detroit, Michigan when she was eight years old.  There she was
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Social Security's Online Services Are Ready For Business
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Cuban History: Biographies
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George Murray
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Arrington, Richard (1934- )
Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in Livingston, Alabama on October 19, 1934 to sharecroppers.  He received a Bachelors degree from Miles College (Alabama), a M.A. in Biology from the University of Detroit in Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Zoology and
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