Rev. Walter Edward Fauntroy
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James Arthur Baldwin
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Henrietta Lacks
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Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
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Laurence John Fishburne, III
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Chester Bomar Himes
July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984 Author / Screenwriter [...]
Ellis Marsalis, Jr. and the Marsalis Brothers
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The Story of Fort Negro and the Seminole Wars
July 27, 1816 Important Battle for Black Freedom During the [...]
Patrick Francis Healy, Ph.D.
February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910 Religious Leader / [...]
Emmett Louis Till
July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955 Murder Victim / [...]