Jordan Brand Announces 20-Year Partnership with Howard University

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Jordan Brand Announces 20-Year Partnership with Howard University

Legendary baller Michael Jordan’s Jordan Brand and Howard University are launching a 20-year partnership. The public will have the chance to see the official debut at Howard’s Game Zero on […]

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Albany State University (1903- )

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Texas College (1894-- )

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Thurgood Marshall

Born: 7/2/908 Baltimore, MarylandDied: /24/993 Bethesda, MarylandThurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 967 until October 99. Marshall was the Courts 96th justice and its first African-American justice.Business

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Charles W. Follis

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Born: 8/7/1904 Detroit, MichiganDied: 12/9/1971 New York City, New YorkRalph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel.Business / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:

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Born: 2/8/93 Lorain, OhioToni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved.Business / Schooling: Awards

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1873

Alabama A&M University [Normal] (1875-- )

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Spingarn Medal: Clarence Mitchell Jr.

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Oakwood University [Huntsville] (1896- )

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Dillard University [New Orleans] (1869- )

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1891

Paul Bustill Robeson

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1898

Gale Sayers was born on May 30, 1943, in Kansas to a family whose only bread winner was an auto mechanic. In 1951, Sayers and his family moved to Omaha where he grew up to an athletic child and showed natural ability in a number of sports, especially American

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1943

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I

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Jan

4

1958

Mary Frances Berry born

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Feb

17

1938

Bill Russell named coach of the Boston Celtics basketball team and became the first Black to coach an established team in professional athletics.

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1955

(1896) Hugh M. Browne, “The Higher Education of the Colored People of the South”

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Evans, Melvin Herbert (1917–1984)

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1979

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4

1973

Mordecai W. Johnson

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Jun

20

1926

Branch Normal College opens in Pine Bluff, Ark., A segregated unit of the state

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27

1875

Shelby Davidson

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13

1999

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1961

Michael Jordan leads Chicago to 1st NBA Title

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Sentamu, John (1949- )

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1949

Howard University,in Washington, D.C. named for General Oliver O. Howard, opened

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