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.

Walter L. Fields Jr.

Reverend Al Sharpton

POSTED: September 25, 2008, 1:00 am

Rev. Al Sharpton at the 2008 CBCF Annual Legislative Conference.

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media
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organizations
documents
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- Declining Employment Among Young Black Men
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- CBC Sponsors National Town Hall Meeting
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