Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coo ...
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*****Hint. Most me like natural looking women like the 'Sade" look or India Arie, Lauren Hill, not too much make up. We want a natural woman. We want you to have a similar look when you wake up in the morning!
I am a teacher and the way the young ...
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This Day in Black History: March 17, 1977
Tamar Braxton was born in Severn, Maryland, on March 17, 1977.
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and television host Tamar Braxton rose to fame as a cast member on WE TV's Braxton Family Values, a realit ...
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Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades wh ...
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BENJAMIN STERLING TURNER (1825-1894)
Benjamin Sterling Turner, a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama during the Reconstruction period, was born on March 17, 1825 in Weldon, North Carolina. He was raised as a slave and ...
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THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS: Meet T ...
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Charlotta Amanda Bass (1874-1969)
Newspaper publisher-editor, civil rights activist
Bass was born in Sumter, South Carolina on February 14, 1874. She relocated to California in 1910 for health reasons. Charlotta Bass took over control of The Cali ...
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Editors- Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm
Founded on March 16, 1827 as a four-page, four-column standard-sized weekly, Freedom's Journal was the first black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States, and was established the same year ...
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Rodney Peete (born March 16, 1966) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders, and Carolina Panthers. He played coll ...
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This Day in Black History: March 16, 1846
Rebecca J. Cole, the second Black woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S., was born in Philadelphia.
Rebecca J. Cole, the second Black woman in the United States to earn a medical degree, was born i ...
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This Day in Black History: March 16, 1948
Singer Billie Holiday is released from prison on March 16, 1948.
Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday rose to fame in the 1930s and became one of the most iconic vocalists in music. But she also had several r ...
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