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Today in Black history: Actor Sidney Poitier born
February 20, 2014Mentored along with Harry Belafonte and others by Paul Robeson, Poitier was red baited during the McCarthy period. He resisted naming names and studio demands that he sign loyalty oaths.
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Today in black history: Vonetta Flowers first black gold medalist at Winter Olympics
February 19, 2014On February 19, 2002, Vonetta Flowers became the first black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.
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Today in black history: Happy birthday Toni Morrison
February 18, 2014On February 18, 1931 author Toni Morrison was born She was the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Today in black history: Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass born
February 14, 2014He became a leader of the abolitionist movement after escaping slavery in 1838, and went on to become an excellent lecturer and writer.
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Texas sportscaster blasts homophobia in NFL
February 13, 2014In a searing rebuff to pervasive anti-gay attitudes in professional football, Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen delivers a moving and insightful commentary.
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Today in labor history: first legal protest by slaves in New York
February 11, 2014On this date in 1644 the first "legal" protest by Africans in America occurred.
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Today in black history: Leontyne Price born
February 10, 2014Her voice was "rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C."
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Today in black history: “Jail-No-Bail” campaign began in S.C.
February 7, 2014SNCC leaders staged a Jail-No-Bail sit-in in solidarity with the imprisoned CORE activists. The sit-in re-energized the movement in Rock Hill, SC.
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