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Educator Dr. Ruth Simmons, the first Black president of Brown University, was born on this date in 1945 in Grapeland, Texas.

Walter Fields and Robert Tarver of NSnewstv.com

POSTED: August 29, 2008, 12:00 am

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NSnewstv.com Executive Editor Walter Fields and Senior Legal Analyst Robert Tarver discuss Senator O

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