Who Is Jamea Jonae Harris? Young Mother Died In Darius Miles Shooting ‘Because She Wouldn’t Talk To Him’

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Who Is Jamea Jonae Harris? Young Mother Died In Darius Miles Shooting ‘Because She Wouldn’t Talk To Him’

Jamea Jonae Harris, the young Black woman killed in an Alabama shooting for which college basketball player Darius Miles is charged with murder, "wouldn't talk to him," her mother said.

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14

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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1

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Rapier, James Thomas (1837-1883)

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31

1883

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15

1964

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21

1965

Two Black students chanced enrollement in Univer.

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Jun

11

1963

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1

1960

Nat King Cole born

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19

1919

Willie Mays, born

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22

1883

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1854

Award-Winning Literary and Scholarly Works by African Americans (to 2013)

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12

1930

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14

1948

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12

1967

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16

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(1963) Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots”

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