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African American Firsts
167o Zipporah Potter Atkins – The first free African American woman to own land in Boston 1760 Jupiter Hammon – First African American published author; poem “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with…
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James Earl Jones
We know him at the booming voice of Mufasa in the Lion King or Star War’s Darth Vader, but James Earl Jones didn’t always speak this way. Born in rural Mississipi in 1931,…
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The Origins of Black History
The History of Black History Black History Month is an annual celebration that is observed in Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom as well as the United States. We celebrate it in…
