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  Opal Lee “Grandmother Of Juneteenth’ Talks Securing National Recognition For The Holiday

  MadameNoire - Natasha Decker

  95-year-old Opal Lee is a history maker and freedom advocate. The Fort Worth, Texas-based educator, who is often referred to as “The Grandmother of …

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  America’s 'African Founders': The Black Thinkers Who Shaped the U.S.

  TIME - By Olivia B. Waxman

  Historian David Hackett Fischer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington’s Crossing, has been writing history books since 1965, and his latest, African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, is an encyclopedia of enslaved people’s experiences in the United States from the …

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  Atlanta employers are looking to hire 3,000 teens this summer

  wsbtv.com - WSBTV.com News Staff

  Employers across Atlanta are promising to hire 3,000 teens this summer.[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Mayor Andre Dickens …

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  Tyrese Gibson And Ludacris Are Apparently Going All Out In The Break Room In Between Fast X Scenes

  cinemablend.com - Sarah El-Mahmoud

  For over two decades, audiences have continued to turn up in droves for the Fast & Furious franchise, and you better believe there’s more where that …

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  Dwyane Wade Delivers Inspiring Speech on 'Solitude' and 'Self-Awareness' at Marquette University Graduation

  People - Natasha Dye

  The NBA champion also received an honorary degree from his Milwaukee alma mater NBA legend Dwyane Wade returned to Marquette University over the weekend, where he received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree and delivered a commencement speech to the nearly 2,000 new graduates, according to …

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  She Warned the Grain Elevator Would Disrupt Sacred Black History. They Deleted Her Findings.

  propublica.org - Seth Freed Wessler

  A whistleblower says a plan to build a grain elevator on an old plantation would disrupt important historic sites, including possibly unmarked graves …