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Born George Speck in 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York, Crum was the son of an African American father and Native American mother, a member of the Huron tribe. He professionally adopted the name "Crum"

Peace, Peeped the National Enquirer cover photo of Whitney Houston lying in her casket...and let me say it doesn't take no Yale education to realize the casket photo is just another way for the tab

Mediaite.com--Don Imus lit in to GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum during his Fox Business Network broadcast today, saying he has first-hand knowledge of how bad a person Santorum is thanks to his wife’s

ATLANTA--It’s not the kind of place one expects to see the R & B singer Usher, yet there he was, holding forth on leadership yesterday at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta. The ke

Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833 in Richmond, Virginia. She was raised in Pennsylvania by her aunt. Her aunt spent a great deal of time caring for the sick in her community. She was probably Crum

Get ready, world: Tyra Banks now has her business school diploma. The mogul and "America's Next Top Model" host posted a bunch of photos to her Twitter today announcing her big graduation from Harv

William Edward Burghardt DuBois was one of this country's most distinguished educators. Born in a small village in Massachusetts in 1868, DuBois first came face to face with the realities of racism in

Four years ago, Bobby Brown, planned to sell a tell-all book about his life with Whitney Houston. Although the book was never published, some say Bobby is once again trying to make it happen. “Back

One of the most fascinating stories about the effects of evolution on human relations is the story of Ota Benga, a pygmy who was put on display in a zoo as an example of an evolutionarily inferior rac

Heney Blair was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States in 1807. His first invention was the Seed-Planter, patented October 14, 1834, which allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor in a

FAME CLAIMS WHITNEY HOUSTON Fame has claimed another life, with Whitney's tragic death, Forty eight is far too young to have taken her last breath. Being in the public eye with cameras al

Vonetta Flowers was born October 29, 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1992, Vonetta graduated from P.D. Jackson Olin High School. She was the first person in her family to go to college. She graduated

(FinalCall.com) - The world is still reeling from the shocking death of legendary singer and cultural icon Whitney Houston. As condolences continue pouring in from fellow musicians, entertainers and f

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Notoriety over a costumed ice cream cone mascot mistaken by passersby for a Ku Klux Klan protestor apparently did not result more customers for a Florida ice cream shop. The Ocal

Huey Newton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on 17th February, 1942. His father, who named his son after the radical politcian, Huey P. Long, was an active member of the

Dr. Patricia Bath, M.D., is the inventor of the cataract Laserphacoprobe, which is the medical instrument to remove cataracts from the eye. Dr. Bath was the first Black Female Surgeon appointed to UCL