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Really unclear why we didn't spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson's love letters to her girlfriend.
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AFTR PRTY on Instagram: ““Peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold”- MLK (1964, Nobel Peace Prize Speech)✌🏾🌍✊🏾”
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An excerpt from A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun by Angela Jackson describes how the iconic poet Gwendolyn Brooks dealt with motherhood.
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Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown really did spend an evening together in 1964.
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You might spot Tom Cruise raving about energy spirits outside of Spago, but you'll never catch some beloved performer straight up worshiping the devil. Right? (Hint: Wrong.)
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Dennis Edwards, lead singer with Motown legends the Temptations from 1968 up to 1977 and again in later years, has died in Chicago at the age of 74.
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When career opportunities for black women began to increase on television and in the movies during the 1960s, beautiful singer/actress Barbara McNair, all but forgotten today, was one of the fastest rising young African-American talents. After getting a break appearing on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts in the 1950s and working her way up through the show biz ranks, in 1962 McNair took over from Diahann Carroll, the original lead, in Richard Rodgers’ Broadway musical No Strings—an interracial…
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1990 © Yousuf Karsh
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