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.

Today in Black America: 04.24.09

POSTED: November 30, -0001, 12:00 am

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A recap of the top stories impacting Black America on April 24, 2009.

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