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It is beyond important for us to recognize those from our past as well as those that are making marks today to be named in future history. Let us continue to teach our young girls of the greatness they have come from, have become, and can be. Born on May 21, 1959, in Greensboro, North …
WNBA players don’t earn a salary anywhere close to their NBA counterparts, but that’s not stopping New York Liberty center Tina Charles from sharing her wealth. Charles will donate half of her $100,000 WNBA salary to a charity she started to honor her aunt, who died from multiple organ failure in 2013, the Associated Press …
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Known as the “Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement,” Septima Poinsette Clark was an educator and civil rights activist who played a major role in the voting rights of African-Americans. In 1920, while serving as an educator in Charleston, Clark worked with the NAACP to gather petitions allowing blacks to serve as principals in Charleston schools. …
courtesy of New York Daily News An astonishing new documentary on the singer Nina Simone opens with a scene of the star staring into space. She’s onstage, at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976, about to begin a pivotal comeback performance. The thunderous applause that greeted her when she walked on stage has died down. …
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With a resumé that includes trunk-rattling raps and repelling f**kboys, Killer Mike has finally decided to make the jump to public office. Killer Mike will be presumably running as Michael Render, his government name, for the vacant seat for District 55’s representative for Georgia’s House of Representatives. Tyrone Brooks, the previous seatholder, was forced to resign after …
Taraji P. Henson became the first black woman to win a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama on Sunday evening at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Hollywood. Her role as “Cookie Lyon” on Fox’s runaway hit Empire has spawned massive fanfare and will probably secure her more awards in the future. “Thank you, …
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