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These Celebs Always Showcase Their Marketing Prowess—Here's How | Essence

Celebrity brand partnerships have been commonplace in the advertising industry for many years. Over time, starlets, musicians and now content creators partner with companies to leverage their popularity and platform to […]

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Whitfield, Lynn (1953– )

Lynn Whitfield is an American actress and producer. Whitfield is best known for her performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical drama film, The Josephine Baker Story (1991), where she won a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries and a movie along with a Golden

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1953

John McWhorter, “Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans”

It is a mantra among black Americans that we are insufficiently aware of our history, that our advancement will be hobbled until we are all rooted in a sense of continuity with the past. Yet, every year we are regaled with not just a Black History Day but a Black History Month. Over four weeks in

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Bassett, Ebenezer D. (1833-1908)

Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first African American diplomat. For eight years, the educator, abolitionist, and black rights activist oversaw bilateral relations through bloody civil warfare and coups détat on the island of

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Source: Black Past

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TRIPLE-MURDER COVERUP – Cop claims plot hatched on Sando Hill - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

WOMAN police constable Nicole Clement admitted she signed a report on the killing of three Moruga friends in 2011 knowing it was false. That report was the initial report the seven officers involved in the fatal police shooting on July 22, 2011, were required to give about the incident. Clem

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Source: Home - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Holloway, Anne Forrester (1941- 2006) - Death

Ann Forrester Holloway died June 23, 2006 in New York, New York at the age of 67.

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2006

Basie, Count (William Allen “Count” Basie) (1904-1984)

A jazz pianist and bandleader, Count Basie was one of the leading musicians of the Big Band “Swing” era. His Count Basie Orchestra was formed in 1936, and featured singers such as Billie Holliday, and notable musicians including Lester Young, Jo Jones, and Walter Page. The band lasted

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Born: 8/30/1901 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 9/8/1981 New York City, New YorkRoy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Business

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Born: 3/1/1914 Oklahoma City, OklahomaDied: 4/16/1994 New York City, New YorkRalph Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also

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Central Park Video Sparks Introduction of a Bill Making Racially Motivated False Police Reports A Hate Crime

A bill that would make falsely reporting certain incidents a hate crime is now garnering increasing support in the wake of a white woman who called the police on a black man who had simply asked her to leash her dog in an area of Central Park known for bird

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Michael Jeffrey Jordan's Birthday

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, 36, Basketball player, former minor league baseball player, Born New York, New York, February 17, 1963

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1963

Roberts, Robin René (1960- )

American television broadcaster Robin René Roberts is the anchor of Good Morning America, an ABC morning news show broadcast from its studios in New York, New York. In December 2013, she quietly came out as a lesbian in a Facebook post that acknowledged her long-time girlfriend, Amber

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1960

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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Bunche, Ralph J. (ca. 1903-1971)

RalphJohnson Bunche, American political scientist, renowned scholar, award winner,and diplomat, was one of the most prominent African Americans of his era. Bunche was born on August 7, 1903 or 1904(there is some disagreement about the year of his birth) in Detroit, Michigan. His father Fred was

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1971

Whoopi Goldberg - Birthday

Whoopi Goldberg , original name Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955, New York, New York, U.

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Nov

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1955

Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of black man | The Atlanta Voice

Four Minneapolis police officers who were involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday after a bystander’s video showed the man pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his

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Hall, Juanita (1901-1968)

Juanita Long Hall, a 20th Century actor and singer, was born in Keyport, New Jersey on Nov. 6, 1901 to an African-American father, Abram Long, and an Irish American mother, Mary Richardson. Raised by maternal grandparents, Long attended New York City, New York’s Juilliard School of Music. While

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Feb

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1968

Hunt, William Henry (1863-1951)

William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six posing as a twenty-year-old, a lie he kept to his grave. Although June 29 might have been his actual day

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Black Man Dies After Video Shows Officer Kneeling on Neck

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis was seen on a bystander’s video pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck during the arrest and kept his knee there for several minutes after the man stopped

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Bonnie G. Hill is President of B. Hill Enterprises, LLC. In this role, Hill leads a consulting firm focusing on corporate governance and board organizational and public policy issues. Hill is also Co-Founder of Icon Blue, a brand marketing

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James Baldwin established his reputation with his first novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953), an autobiographical tale of growing up in Harlem. He became one of the leading African-American authors of his generation, known for novels and essays that tackled black-white and hetero-homosexual

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

(1980) Thomas Sowell, “Politics and Opportunity: Background”

In December 1980, shortly after former California Governor Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a California-based public policy institute (think tank) sponsored the Black Alternatives Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San

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Source: Black Past

(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”

In 1972 Barbara Charline Jordan became the first black member of Congress elected from Texas. Two years later this freshman Representative became a national figure because of her prominent role as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard

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Source: Black Past

Chairman And CEO Sean Combs Promotes Long-Time Associate Dia Simms To President Of Combs Enterprises

Simms will lead company in all verticals including fashion, spirits, media, and other brands

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Cook, Suzan Denise Johnson (1957– )

Suzan Johnson Cook is a religious leader, pastor, motivational speaker, and diplomat who was born on January 28, 1957, in Harlem, New York. Her father, Wilbert Johnson, was a trolley driver and later founder of a successful security company, and her mother Dorothy Johnson, was a public school

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2011

Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye

Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye , also called Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (born August 17, 1936, Boda, near Ambo, Ethiopia—died February 25, 2006, New York, New York, U.S.), Ethiopian playwright and poet, who wrote in Amharic and

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2006

Moose, George E. (1944 - ) - Birthday

George Moose was born in New York City, New York on June 23, 1944, to Robert and Ellen Amanda Lane.

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1944

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Elected officials say NYPD should show 'zero tolerance' to Central Park 'Karen' and launch criminal probe | New York Carib News

Elected officials say NYPD should show ‘zero tolerance’ to Central Park ‘Karen’ and launch criminal probe

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Smythe, Hugh Heyne (1913-1977)

Diplomat, scholar and author Hugh Heyne Smythe was born on August 19, 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His mother was a housemaid and his father, who died when Smythe was three years old, was a mailman. One of five siblings, at age six Smythe was forced to start work as a paperboy to help support

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Baquaqua, Mahommah Gardo (1824?-1857?)

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s biography is the only known biography of a former slave from Brazil. Baquaqua was born around 1824 near Djougou in modern day Benin to a Muslim merchant family. Baquaqua was captured from Djougou in 1845 while acting as a messenger for a local king; he was taken to the

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