today in black history

October 17, 2025

Historian and journalist, Lerone Bennett, Jr., senior editor of Ebony magazine, was born in 1928 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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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