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Henry Armstrong: First Boxing Champion in Three Separate Divisions

Uchenna EdehDecember 12, 2015April 22, 2018

by Uchenna EdehDecember 12, 2015April 22, 20180

Henry Armstrong was the first boxer to hold simultaneous world championship titles in three different divisions: the featherweight, welterweight and lightweight world champion in 1938....

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Fred “Duke” Slater: Football Trailblazer

Uchenna EdehDecember 9, 2015March 1, 2020

by Uchenna EdehDecember 9, 2015March 1, 20200

Fred “Duke” Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century. But his pioneering influence extended beyond the...

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Sammy Davis Jr: Mr. Entertainment

Uchenna EdehDecember 8, 2015April 15, 2018

by Uchenna EdehDecember 8, 2015April 15, 20180

For a staggering 60 years, from his debut as a four year old child star in the late 1920’s to his untimely death in 1990...

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Ralph Gardner-Chavis: Chemist and Scientist on the atomic bomb

Meserette KentakeDecember 3, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeDecember 3, 2015April 15, 20180

Ralph Gardner-Chavis, who was a pioneer in plastic chemistry, owns the distinction of being one of the scientists and technicians who worked on the Manhattan...

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Lewis Hayden: Heroic Abolitionist

Meserette KentakeDecember 2, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeDecember 2, 2015April 15, 20180

Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and...

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Richard Pryor: Comic Genius

Uchenna EdehDecember 1, 2015April 15, 2018

by Uchenna EdehDecember 1, 2015April 15, 20180

Richard Pryor was one of the most influential stand-up comedians of his generation, and starred in a number of hit films and comedy recordings. He...

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Jerry Lawson: Inventor of the video game cartridge

Meserette KentakeDecember 1, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeDecember 1, 2015August 16, 20200

“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t...

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Gordon Parks: Renaissance Man

Meserette KentakeNovember 30, 2015February 16, 2026

by Meserette KentakeNovember 30, 2015February 16, 20261

Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas. It is recorded that he was stillborn:...

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Shirley Chisholm: Pioneering African American Politician

Meserette KentakeNovember 30, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeNovember 30, 2015April 15, 20180

Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United States Congress. Chisholm was also the first...

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Marshall “Major” Taylor: The Black Cyclone

Meserette KentakeNovember 26, 2015April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeNovember 26, 2015April 15, 20180

“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship...

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