black history
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James Brown (1933-2006)
Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud), Santa Claus (Come Straight to the Ghetto), Please, Please, Please. Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, A Man’s World, the list goes on and on and on. James Joseph Brown Jr. (who later removed the Jr. designation from his name) was born in South Carolina during the Read more
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Ed Bradley (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006)
He was wounded while on assignment covering the Vietnam War. In 1976, he became the first black white house correspondent. His accolades are way too numerous for me to go into right now. He was one of the reasons that I pursued journalism in college, and he died today of leukemia. Read more
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Weekend Edition
I’ll be doing two of these for the Weekends. – TJ Juanita Kidd Stout First Black Woman on a State Supreme Court Juanita Kidd Stout was one of America’s most respected judges. Her career has been marked by a series of unprecedented accomplishments including her appointment in 1988 as the first black woman to serve Read more
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would Read more
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