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      Patrick H. Reason: African-American Engraver and Lithographer

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      Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica

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      October 26, 2018
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      Cudjoe Kossula Lewis: The “last African-American ancestor”

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      July 26, 2018
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      Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia

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      May 14, 2018
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      Paul Belloni Du Chaillu: The “African” Zoologist who became known as the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas

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      April 29, 2018
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      Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time

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      Walter Tull: Black British War Hero

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      March 25, 2018
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      Anna Murray Douglass: His story was made possible because of her love

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      August 4, 2015
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      Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

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      April 21, 2019
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      Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’

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      February 24, 2019
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      Ayiti: An Interview with Professor Bayyinah Bello

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      January 1, 2019
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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

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      August 1, 2017
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      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

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      June 20, 2017
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      Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks

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      Ten Powerful Quotes from "Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority" by Tom Burrell

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      March 18, 2016
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      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

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      April 3, 2018
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      Ten Powerful Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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      April 2, 2018
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      The best line from the Black Panther Movie

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      March 1, 2018
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    • US athlete Wilma Rudolph shows the gold medal she won at the Women's 100 meters Summer Olympic Games sprint event on September 2, 1960 in Rome, Italy. (AP Photo)

      Ten Inspirational Quotes by Wilma Rudolph

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      June 23, 2017
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      Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

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      Honourable Mrs. Louise Bennett-Coverley 'Miss Lou' - Mother of Jamaican culture

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      September 7, 2015
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      Magical quotes from ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri

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      April 20, 2019
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      A Black Wedding Song

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      December 1, 2018
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      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

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      For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

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      April 19, 2018
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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

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      Listen Children: Seven Poems by Lucille Clifton

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      The Art of Abdul Badi

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      The Gullah Creole Art of Diane Britton Dunham

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      March 16, 2019
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      The Orisha Art of Erik Olivera Rubio

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      December 9, 2017
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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

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      August 1, 2017
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      Charles Alston: Reclaiming identity through art

      Uchenna Edeh
      November 28, 2016
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      Henry Ossawa Tanner: First internationally acclaimed African American artist

      Uchenna Edeh
      June 21, 2016
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      The Art of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

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William carney

William H. Carney: First Black American to merit the Medal of Honor

Uchenna Edeh
May 23, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Pisces, History Makers
William Harvey Carney was an African American soldier during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Fort Wagner. His actions at Fort Wagner preceded those...
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Patrick H. Reason: African-American Engraver and Lithographer

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March 17, 2016
African American, Famous Pisces, History Makers, Maafa
Patrick Henry Reason was one of the earliest African-American engraver and lithographer in the United States. His artistic skills were discovered when he was very young, and he rose to fame by painting painting...
R H Boyd

Richard Henry Boyd: Baptist Leader, Publisher and Entrepreneur

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March 15, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Pisces, Maafa
Richard Henry Boyd was the founder and head of the National Baptist Publishing Board and a founder of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. Boyd was also involved in organizing the One Cent Savings B...
Blanche K Bruce

Blanche Kelso Bruce: African American Senator during the 19th Century

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March 1, 2016
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Blanche Kelso Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi as a Republican from 1875 to 1881. Bruce was also the first African American to become the Re...
Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage: African-American Sculptor

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February 29, 2016
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"I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work." Augusta Savage was a...
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Marian Anderson: Legendary African American Contralto

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February 27, 2016
African American, Famous Pisces, Herstory
"Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend." Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. Anderson was the first African-American wo...
James Cameron

James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching

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February 25, 2016
African American, Famous Pisces, History Makers
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James Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of the rope that had scarred his neck moments before he was spared, was the on...
WEB-Du-Bois

William E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

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August 27, 2015
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard...
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Angelina Weld Grimké

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May 4, 2015
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Angelina Weld Grimké (Feb. 27, 1880 - June 10, 1958.), was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have dreamed the bliss Of the nectar in one...

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      Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

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      The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I ...
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      The Gullah Creole Art of Diane Britton Dunham

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      Fine Art artist and historian, Diane Britton Dunham, has receive global recognition for her Gullah/Creole inspired art. ...
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      Amelia's song is one of the most fascinating stories in the African-American drama of the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. A Mend...
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      Ona Judge: The First Lady’s personal maid who freed herself from bondage and was ‘Never Caught’

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      Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington's Mount Vernon la...
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      Ten Iconic Black Women of the Maafa (Atlantic Slavery)

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      February 19, 2019
      "Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your ...
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