today in black history

April 25, 2024

Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald, the "First Lady of Song," was born on this date in 1918 in Newport News, Virginia.

From The Bottom Up: Segment 7

POSTED: February 25, 2009, 12:00 am

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A profile of community activist George Tillman.

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