The Fugees Cancel Reunion Tour, Blame COVID

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The Fugees Cancel Reunion Tour, Blame COVID

It's a wrap before it even started. The highly anticipated Fugees reunion tour, which was already postponed, is now officially cancelled.

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1843

The AME Zion Church is dedicated in New York City

The AME Zion Church is dedicated in New York City

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1800

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Dance, Pearl Primus dies

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1994

Born: 4/5/937 Harlem, New YorkColin Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 200 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During

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Fourth Pan-African Congress met in New York City

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21

1927

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19

1910

James McCune Smith, a physician and writer educatedin New York's African Free

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Walter F. White honored by NAACP

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Jul

2

1937

Virgie Ammons patents fireplace damper actuator

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30

1975

United States population: 9,638,453

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1820

Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City

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1800

Ezzard Charles defeated Joe Louis

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27

1950

New York Draft Riots

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13

1863

African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church

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21

1821

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25

1760

Fifth national Black convention met in New York

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2

1834

Born: 9/20/1958 New York City, New YorkBurns was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009, and over the last 5 years, she has worked tirelessly towards transforming the company’s image as a manufacturer of printers to a full-fledged services business. And it’s working well. Services now represent 57% of the

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22

1979

New York Slave Revolt. April 7, 1712 Nine whites were killed in a slave revolt in New York City. Planned by 27 slaves, the rebellion was begun by setting fire to an outhouse; as whites came to put the fire out, there were shot. The state militia was called out to capture the rebels and the city of

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7

1712

Michael Jeffrey Jordan's Birthday

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17

1963

Death of Charlie Parker

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Mar

12

1955

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1780

Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia. A civil rights worker who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP, Baker will become executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960s during student integration of lunch counters in the southern states. She also will play

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13

1903

Anna Arnold Hedgeman, first woman to serve

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5

1899

James Baldwin born

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1924

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1870

Exibition of African American Art

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1862

The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urgesits members to educat

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