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Schultz Family Foundation appoints Tyra Mariani as new president | New Pittsburgh Courier

The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that The Schultz Family Foundation, founded by former Starbucks CEO and chairman emeritus Howard Schultz and his wife Sheri Schultz, recently announced that Tyra

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The Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935–1936)

The Second Italo-Abyssinian War was Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia, a process it began after the 1885 Partition of Africa. Italy was defeated in its first attempt at conquest at the battle of Adwa in 1896, allowing Ethiopia to become the only African nation to remain free of European control. Italian

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Islam

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South Carolina State University (1896--- )

South Carolina State University (SCSU) was founded in 1896 by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly and remains the state’s sole public college for African American youth. It was established in Orangeburg, South Carolina as a land grant institution that focused mainly on

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Gerrymandering - Definition and Examples in Politics

Gerrymandering is the act of drawing of congressional, state legislative or other political boundaries to favor a political party or one particular candidate for elected office. The purpose of gerrymandering is to grant one party power over another by creating districts that hold dense

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Wilkinson, Sharon P. (1947- )

Sharon P. Wilkinson is an American diplomat. She served as United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso from 1996 to 1999 and United States Ambassador to Mozambique from 2000 to 2003. She has extensive experience in foreign affairs and has served all over the

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Ali, Ayaan Hirsi (1969- )

Writer and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somaliaon November 13, 1969. Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was a prominent Somali intellectual andrevolutionary leader. As a child, Alihad to move with her family to Saudi Arabia,Ethiopia, and Kenya, due topolitical turmoil in her own

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1969

(1886) Lucy Parsons, “I am An Anarchist”

Lucy E. Parsons was a leading figure in American anarchism and the radical labor movement. Born a slave near Waco, Texas, she married Albert R. Parsons who had become a white radical Republican after serving first as a Confederate soldier. In 1873 Albert and Lucy to move to Chicago in 1873 where

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Dec

21

1886

Creflo Dollar

Yes, Creflo A. Dollar Jr. is his real name. His father, Creflo A. Dollar Sr., was a police officer… Dollar’s biography lists an undated bachelor’s degree in educational therapy from West Georgia College (now the University of West Georgia) and an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Oral Roberts

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Tina Turner

Name at birth: Anna Mae Bullock

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Hicks, Irvin (1938- )

Irvin Hicks was a career Foreign Service Officer who rose from a communications clerk position to serve three times as a U.S. ambassador. Hicks served in the Department of State during the nascent years of African Independence from European colonial rule. Hicks was appointed Ambassador

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Jul

11

1985

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Carrington, Walter Charles (1930 - )

Walter Charles Carrington served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal from 1980 to 1981, and to Nigeria from 1993 to 1997. He married Arese Ukpoma, a Nigerian physician, and has lived in three Nigerian cities since the late

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Jul

24

1930

Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell (1898-1989)

Born two decades before American women won the right to vote, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander overcame obstacles as a female and also as an African American in the elite profession of law. In 1927 she became the first black woman to gain admission to the Pennsylvania Bar, beginning a long career

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1898

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and

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St. Philips Moravian Church [Winston-Salem, North Carolina] (1822- )

St. Philips Moravian Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in North Carolina. St. Philips is also the only historically black Moravian church in the United

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Madagascar

Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa opposite Mozambique. The worlds fourth-largest island, it is twice the size of Arizona. The countrys low-lying coastal area gives way to a central plateau. The once densely wooded interior has largely been cut

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Anubis

Anubis | FactMonster

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Copeland, Misty (1982- )

Misty Copeland is one of only a handful of African American soloist ballerinas in the world. When Copeland was just a newborn two ballerinas, Anne Benna Sims and Nora Kimball, respectively, became the first and second African American soloists for the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in New

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is the U.S. Supreme Court justice who was thrust into the limelight in his 1991 confirmation proceedings, during which he was accused of sexual harassment. Clarence Thomas grew up in rural Georgia, attended Conception Seminary and Holy Cross College, then graduated from Yale Law

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Gadsden, James I. (1948- )

In 2002, Ambassador James Irvin Gadsden, career diplomat, and educator, was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as ambassador to Iceland. Gadsden was born on March 12, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, to James who worked as a janitor and Hazel Gaines Gadsden who was a housewife and

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12

1948

How Martin Luther King Day Became a Federal Holiday

On Nov. 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday, effective Jan. 20, 1986. As a result of this bill, Americans commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday on the third Monday in January. Few Americans are aware of the history of Martin Luther

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Santos, Rosângela Cristina Oliveira (1990- )

Rosângela Cristina Oliveira Santos is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil, specialising in the 100 and 200 meter sprints. Born to Brazilian parents in Washington D.C., on December 20, 1990, she contracted pneumonia as a baby and was one year old when her parents

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Dec

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1990

Lewis G. Clarke: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Hero

In the article below Seattle historian Carver Clark Gayton describes his most prominent ancestor, Lewis G. Clarke, who is widely considered to be the model for one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s main characters in her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Here Gayton describes Clarke’s evolving relationship with

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Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem Olajuwon was born on January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was born to owners of a concrete business, Salaam and Abike Olajuwon. He was the third of six siblings. The knowledge he, along with his siblings, got from his parents was virtues of hard work, discipline and respect of life. He was

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GOP Candidate Says Black Democratic Opponent Is 'NOT For ALL Virginians'

Republican gubernatorial candidate Amanda Chase questioned whether one of her Democratic opponents is for “ALL Virginians” on Thursday, immediately after noting that state Sen. Jennifer McClellan is vice chairwoman of the Virginia Legislative Black

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Smith, E. June (1900-1982)

E. June Smith, a prominent leader in Seattle’s civil rights movement, was born in Cairo, Illinois in 1900 and worked as a secretary in St. Louis. Smith came to Seattle with her husband Roscoe O. Smith, a railroad porter, in 1941. Soon after her arrival, she worked as an insurance agent and, in

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(1987) Thurgood Marshall, “A Colorblind Society Remains an Aspiration”

On August 15, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke to a gathering of federal judges. Reflecting on his two decades on the Court and particularly on recent affirmative action rulings by the High Court, Justice Marshall reminded his audience that the United States had not yet

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Aug

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1987

Kissi, Emmanuel Abu (1938– )

Emmanuel Abu Kissi, a prominent convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was born in 1938 in Abomosu, Ghana. He married Benedicta Elizabeth Bamfo in June 1970, and they are the parents of seven children. Kissi attended medical school in London, England, and there came into

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Waller, John Lewis (1850-1907)

John L. Waller was a career Republican and activist who played a significant role in Kansas politics. He was born to slave parents, Anthony and Maria Waller, on a plantation in New Madrid County, Missouri. Some records suggest he was born in 1851, contrary to his own testimony. Waller and his

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