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1999

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New York Mets controversial star outfielder Darryl Strawberry was born in Los Angeles.

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1962

Samuel L. Jackson

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The game Warri is a board game belonging to an ancient family of pit and pebble games which originated in Africa.The game originated in the Sudan and spread to western Africa from which it travelled to the Caribbean in the 17th century. It is one of the most interesting examples of African heritage

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Church Of God In Christ, Memphis (1907- )

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Perkins, John [aka "Jack Punch"] ( -1812)

Captain John Perkins, nicknamed Jack Punch, was the first black commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. His date of birth and origins are unknown but Perkins first appeared in Navy records in 1775 when he joined as a ship’s pilot aboard HMS Antelope, the flagship of the Jamaica station. In 1778 he

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Folorunsho Alakija

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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”

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Jan

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1947

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1938

Hugh Davis, a Virginian is sentenced to be whipped before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of Christians, by defiling his body in lying with a Negro.

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Ex-football star O.J. Simpson is cleared today of murdering his ex-wife Nicole B

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(1863) Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, “Freedom's Joyful Day”

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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama

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30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof's "Race Against Time

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1986

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1955

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