LIL HARDIN ARMSTRONG
by Jone Johnson Lewis Updated March 11, 2017 Known for: first major woman jazz instrumentalist; part of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band; marriage to Louis
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NEA to honor Washington human and civil rights hero Delbert Richardson
Annual gala marks 50th anniversary of the NEA-American Teachers Association merger WASHINGTON— Founder and curator Delbert Richardson’s traveling African-American museum,
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Tennessee Episcopalians add to growing efforts to honor lynching victims
The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee is leading efforts to research and memorialize lynching victims in Nashville and statewide, following in
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A Basquiat Sells for ‘Mind-Blowing’ $110.5 Million at Auction
Joining the rarefied $100 million-plus club in a salesroom punctuated by periodic gasps from the crowd, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful 1982
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Supreme Court justice honors Thurgood Marshall during Harlem event
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer made an appeal for the importance of courts and the rule of law at an
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Oprah Wants The World To Know Henrietta Lacks
Oprah Winfrey, center, Dr. Jungmiwha Bullock, right, and artist Kadir Nelson, left, with his painting of Henrietta Lacks, attend the
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Black Panthers 50 Years Later: What They Wanted Is What We (Still) Need
Courtesy of Ebony Magazine Two generations ago, a group of young people stood up and demanded education, housing, food, jobs
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Roger Wilkins, Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 85
Courtesy of The New York Times Roger Wilkins, who championed civil rights for black Americans for five decades as an
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Essex County Freeholders Celebrate African-American History Month
Vice President Brendan Gill (right) reads the Board’s plaque and Commendation honoring Orange Councilmember Adrienne Wooten ( BY GLEN FRIESON
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Chuck Berry Dies at 90
Chuck Berry, who with his indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties
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