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George Floyd’s Brother Urges Congress To Back Cause Of Police Reform
A day after an emotional funeral for George Floyd in his hometown of Houston, his brother Philonise Floyd testified in front of Congress on Wednesday (June 10) about police accountability and violence by law enforcement in the African-American
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Tamia And Eric Benet Blow Us Away With ‘Spend My Life’ Instagram Duet
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Fuller, Margaret
Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer, lecturer, and public intellectual, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities in the American literary circles of her day. A precocious child, she was forced by her father, a Massachusetts
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Aaru: Abode of the blessed
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Tubman, Harriet
Tubman, Harriet, c.1820–1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful conductors on the Underground Railroad . Returning to the South more than a dozen times, she is generally
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James Weldon Johnson
Trained in music and other subjects by his mother, a schoolteacher, Johnson graduated from Atlanta University with A.B. (1894) and M.A. (1904) degrees and later studied at Columbia University. For several years he was principal of the black high school in Jacksonville, Fla. He read law at the same
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Anna Nzinga 1581-1663 (African Warrior Queen)
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An open letter from a black teen: ‘Do better’
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Former NBA Star Stephen Jackson Remembers His “Twin” George Floyd
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Stop the pain!
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(1850) Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed”
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers , in full Medgar Wiley Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Miss., U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Miss.), American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner was a renowned African-American known for leading the 1831 slave rebellion to free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, after being subjected to slavery himself. He started a revolt among the black slave followers to free their brother on several plantations. They gained more arms and
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