‘The Boy is Mine’ Debate Comes to ‘Verzuz’ as Brandy and Monica Set to Face Off in Upcoming Battle – Atlanta Black Star

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‘The Boy is Mine’ Debate Comes to ‘Verzuz’ as Brandy and Monica Set to Face Off in Upcoming Battle – Atlanta Black Star

The moment “Verzuz” fans have been waiting for has finally arrived. Over the weekend, it was announced thatBrandyandMonicawould be facing off in the next music […]

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Kimberly Denis Jones also known as Lil’ Kim is a New Yorker by heart. She was born to the great city in 1974 and has been raised in Brooklyn. As a young teen, she was thrown out on the curb by her father where she lived on the streets and sometimes with her friends. Lil’ Kim found her solace in

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Death of Horace Mann Bond (70), former president of Lincoln University (Pa.), in Atlanta.

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1972

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1963

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

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1949

Denzel Washington

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(1862) John S. Rock, “A Deep and Cruel Prejudice”

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Abernathy, Ralph (1926-1990)

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Coretta Scott is born

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1927

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1961

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2001

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1925

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John Stephens Durham

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Maynard Jackson elected mayor of Atlanta

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