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Cardinals extend winning streak to 11 vs. Brewers, clinch 14th consecutive winning season news -The Black Chronicle

USATSI The St. Louis Cardinals extended their winning streak to 11 games on Wednesday night after throttling the Milwaukee Brewers by a 10-2 final (box score). The Cardinals have now…

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Born: 1/31/1919 Cairo, GeorgiaDied: 10/24/1972 Stamford, ConnecticutJackie Robinson was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers

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Apr

15

1947

Ntozke Shange is born

Born Paulette Williams, she graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern California. It was there she changed her name to the Zulu “Ntozke” meaning “she who comes with her own things” and “Shange” meaning

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Oct

18

1948

Jazz migration began. Joe Oliver left New Orleans and settled in Chicago and was joined by other stars.

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Dec

11

1917

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Dec

30

1929

Taye Diggs was born on January 2, 1971 in Newark, New Jersey. He is the oldest of five children born to Marcia and Andre Young. Diggs grew up in Rochester, New York where he attended Allendale Columbia School. He later transferred to School of the Arts. He also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from

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Jan

2

1971

Birth of Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable

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4

1750

Former Saint Louis Cardinals first baseman Bill White is named president of the

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3

1989

Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park

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Aug

4

1953

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3

1919

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Apr

15

1922

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Dec

13

1924

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

Born: 7/16/1862 Holly Springs, MississippiDied: 3/25/1931 Chicago, IllinoisIda Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights MovementBusiness

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sphinx sfĭngks [key], mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra . The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, although some were constructed with rams heads and

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1965

Abbott, Anderson Ruffin (1837-1913)

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29

1913

Baseball Great Jackie Robinson born

In Cairo, Georgia on this date baseball great Jackie Robinson was born. The fifth African American to play major league baseball with a white team, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, ending five decades of segregated baseball. At the time of his retirement in October 1972, Robinson is

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1919

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Dec

17

1961

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress

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6

1928

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson's professional debut

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17

1946

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9

1871

Jordan, Michael Jeffrey

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1949

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26

1967

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1975

Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett

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16

1862

Otis F. Boykin was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. After graduating high school, he attended Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated in 1941 and took a job as a laboratory assistant with the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation in Chicago, Illinois. He undertook various tasks but

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1933

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