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50 Cent Apologizes To Megan Thee Stallion, Claims He Didn’t Think Her Getting Shot “Was Real”

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50 Cent took to his Instagram account to apologize to Megan Thee Stallion for sharing insensitive memes making fun of the night she was allegedly shot by Tory Lanez.

Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture
Border Love on the Rio Grande: African American Men and Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (1850-1940)
The area of South Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley became in the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I one of the few regions south of the Mason-Dixon Line where racial miscegenation laws were frequently challenged.  As a consequence a small but significant number of prominent
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Dennis Rodman
Best Known
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Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Scottie Pippen
Scottie Pippen is a retired American basketball player who played along with Michael Jordan on the team Chicago Bulls. He was born on September 25, 1965, in Hamburg, Arkansas to Ethel and Preston Pippen. His mother and father stood at 6 feet and 6 feet 1 inch respectively, and Pippen was the
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Source: Black History Resources
Sep
25
1965
Miguel talks Kaleidoscope Dream, committed relationship, and Michael Jackson
Miguel - Adorn Live on Big Boys Neighborhood - Duration: 3:29. radiobigboy 134,082 views
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Sponsored by Intellitech
Dash, Julie (1952- )
Filmmaker Julie Dash was born on October 22, 1952 in Queens, New York. She received her B.A. in film production from City College of New York in 1974 and went on to earn a two-year fellowship to the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles.  At AFI, Dash
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Oct
22
1952
Debbie Allen
Deborrah Kaye Allen, better known as Debbie Allen, is an American choreographer and dancer from Houston, Texas. She was born on January 16, 1950 to Arthur Allen and Vivian Ayers. Her mother was a strong role model in her life, who took care of Debbie and her siblings when her parents got
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Jan
16
1950
Jordan, Barbara (1936-1996)
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936. She received her education in public schools in Texas and graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956 with a B.A. in political science and history. Jordan then received her LL.B. from Boston University School
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Jan
17
1996
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffery Jordan is an American basketball legend who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards for 15 seasons. Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. In high school he played baseball, football, and basketball. When he
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Feb
17
1963
Leslie M. Alexander (1948- )
Ambassador Leslie M. Alexander was a Career Foreign Service Officer. He was appointed by President William J. Clinton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to three nations: Mauritius and the Comoros where he served from 1993 to 1996, Ecuador where he served from 1996 to 1999, and Haiti where he served from
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Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Nov
9
1948
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was a multi-talented American jazz icon who was a singer, trumpeter, actor and comedian. He was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had an impoverished childhood; his father was a factory worker who abandoned the family when Armstrong was born and his mother often
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Jul
6
1971
Michael Jordan retires
Michael Jordan announce his retirement from the NBA and the most illustrious career of any professional sports figure to date.
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Jan
13
1999
Isiah Thomas
Isiah Lord Thomas III is a retired professional basketball player who played with the Detroit Pistons from 1981 to 1994. He was born on April 30, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois and was the youngest of nine siblings. He attended a private school called St. Joseph High School in Illinois, which took him
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Source: Black History Resources
Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Apr
30
1961
Karl Malone
Karl Malone was born on July 24, 1963 in Summerfield, Louisiana. He was the son of Shirley and Shedrick and was the youngest of nine siblings. Karl was raised by his mother on a farm since his father was married to another woman and lived with her. He committed suicide when Karl was only 14. Karl
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Jul
24
1963
Winston-Salem State University [North Carolina] (1892- )
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), the first African American institution in the country to grant elementary teacher education degrees, began as a State Normal School in 1892.  The institution developed due to the work of Dr. Simon Green Atkins, who in 1881, helped organize the North Carolina
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Magic Johnson
Name at birth: Earvin
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Sponsored by National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAP) Boston Chapter
Jenkins, Bonnie Denise (ca.1960– )
Born in Queens, New York, and growing up in the Bronx, New York, Jenkins was the child of a day care worker (her mother) and a store manager (her father). She attended a private all-girls high school in New York where she excelled at academics and athletics, and graduated in 1978. After
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Sponsored by National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAP) Boston Chapter
Texas Southern University (1947- )
Texas Southern University, a state-supported institution of higher learning located just southeast of downtown Houston, was established on March 3, 1947 when the Fiftieth Texas State Legislature passed a bill establishing a Negro University with a law school to be located in Houston. This bill
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer, songwriter and actress and one of the best selling artists of all time. She was born on August 9, 1963 in New Jersey to two time Grammy Award winner Cissy Houston. The legendary queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, was her godmother. Whitney Houston
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Source: Black History Resources
Aug
9
1963
O'Neal, Shaquille
ONeal, Shaquille | FactMonster
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Master P
Percy Miller also known as Master P, was born on April 29, 1970 in New Orleans. He is an American actor, rapper, producer and an entrepreneur. Miller’s parents were divorced when he was very young, due to which he went back and forth from his grandmother’s house in New Orleans to his mother’s house
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Apr
29
1970
Simmons, Ruth (1945- )
Ruth Simmons is the first African American to be named President of an Ivy League university.  She is also the first African American woman to lead any major university in the United States. Simmons was sworn in as the 18th President of Brown University in autumn 2001 and the University’s first
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Johnson, Kevin Maurice (1966- )
Kevin Johnson, Mayor of Sacramento, California, was born in Californias capital city in 1966. He graduated from Sacramento High School, where he led the state in basketball scoring during his senior year, with a point average of 32.5 points. Johnson then played college basketball at the University
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Aug
8
2000
Nelly
Name at birth: Cornell
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Sue K. Brown (1948- )
Ambassador Sue Katherine Brown is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor.  In 2011 President Barack Obama nominated her to become the U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro, the first African American to hold this post and only the second U.S. ambassador since
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Jun
3
2006
Thomas, Harry K., Jr. (1956- )
Though born in New York City, New York’s Harlem community, Harry Keels Thomas, Jr. was raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Queens where most parents were civil servants.   His mother was a social worker and his father, a World War II veteran, operated small businesses.  Thomas finished
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Sponsored by BARBinc
Apr
27
2010
David Robinson
David Robinson is a retired professional basketball player who is colloquially known as ‘The Admiral’ thanks to his prior service to the United States
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Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Aug
6
1965
Leslie, Lisa Deshaun (1972- )
Lisa Deshaun Leslie is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Sparks in the Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA) for her twelve-year career from 1997 to 2009. She is a two-time WNBA champion, three-time WNBA MVP, and a four-time Olympic gold medal
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The leading scorer in the history of NBA, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won 6 of the most prestigious NBA titles, five of which were with the Los Angeles Lakers over a period of 20 years. His list of achievements is one of the most extraordinary in league’s history. Not only was Kareem a member of six NBA
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Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Apr
16
1947
(1871) Congressman Robert C. DeLarge, “Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment”
Robert Carlos DeLarge served as a Republican member of the U.S. Congress less than a full term. He was elected in 1870 and began his term on March 4, 1871. However he left Congress on January 24, 1873 within two months of the completion of his term when the seat was declared vacant as the result of
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was the cousin of singer Dionne Warwick… Whitney Houston had one child: a daughter, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, born to Houston and Bobby Brown in 1993. Bobbi Brown was found unconscious in the bathtub of her home near Atlanta on January 31, 2015, in circumstances reminiscent of
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31
2015

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