today in black history

July 01, 2026

General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the first Black to reach the highest rank in the Army, was born in Washington, D.C.

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POSTED: October 30, 2008, 10:53 am

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A look back at the 1965 Selma-Montgomery march.

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