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Follow Black Women To Victory In 2018 | New York Amsterdam News
According to the 2017 election exit polls, like they did recently in Alabama, Black women led the way in turning Virginia and New Jersey from red to blue, up and down the ballot.
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Her dad was the Rose Bowl’s first black QB in 1922. This year, he’ll join the Hall of Fame. | The Washington Post
“I don’t know too many men like him. I don’t want to start crying, but he taught me the good lessons about family and how to deal with people….”
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Marian Spencer, Civil Rights Pioneer and Alumna of University of Cincinnati, Honored with Building on Campus | Good Black News
Spencer was born in 1920 in Gallipolis, Ohio. She lived with her grandfather who was a born a slave. As a child, she remembers watching the Ku Klux Klan parade in the street in front of her house.
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2017 Deaths: Beautiful Lives Remembered | The Washington Informer
Activist, Entertainers, Athletes, Leaders, Authors & More
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First black player in major leagues? Hint: It wasn’t Jackie Robinson | Los Angeles Times
Years ago, Palmer’s grandmother told him the story of the man buried here. That’s my uncle, she said, your great-grand uncle. His name was Moses Fleetwood Walker, and he was the first black baseball player in the major leagues.
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Madam C.J. Walker’s “Villa Lewaro” Estate in New York Protected as National Treasure with Preservation Easement | Good Black News
On the heels of launching the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the largest preservation campaign ever undertaken on behalf of African-American history, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced a preservation easement on Madam C.J. Walker’s estate, Villa Lewaro. A powerful preservation tool, the easement prevents current and future owners from making adverse changes to or demolishing the estate’s historic, cultural and architectural features.
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Don Hogan Charles, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 79 | The New York Times
Don Hogan Charles, who was the first black photographer to be hired by The New York Times, and who drew acclaim for his evocative shots of the civil rights movement and everyday life in New York, died on Dec. 15 in East Harlem. He was 79.
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Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 | The New York Times
COLUMBIA, Md. — The soprano Leontyne Price, who retired from singing 20 years ago, assumed that the triumphs of her illustrious career were behind her. Not so. At 90, Ms. Price has become an unlikely movie star.
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Mississippi Goddam: Dr. Nina Simone Remembered | Fashion Unfiltered
In an exclusive interview, Lisa Simone talks about her mother, Nina Simone, the icon’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the documentary, “What Happened, Miss Simone?”
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