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This Black Woman Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her.
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The Last Blackman in San Francesco
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Father Augustus Tolton, now one step closer toward sainthood.
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The Fisk Jubilee singers: They Introduced the World to Songs of Slavery. It Almost Broke Them.
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Prince Nico Mbarga: His Biggest Hit Sold More Copies Than Any of the Beatles’. So Why Haven’t You Heard of Him?
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All African-American World War II women’s battalion, the ‘Six Triple Eight’
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Dec. 25, 1951: Murder of Harriette and Harry Moore in Florida.
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‘Higher Learning’, an often forgotten gem by John Singleton.
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Betye Saar
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The Slave Bible: ‘Let the story be told’
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