today in black history

October 21, 2019

Jazz legend and band leader, Dizzy Gillespie, was born in 1917 in Cheraw, SC. He would become one of the genre's great ambassadors.

2008 Election

General Powell endorses Sen. Barack Obama

POSTED: November 01, 2008, 10:00 am

Retired Army General Colin Powell endorses Sen. Obama on NBC's Meet The Press on October 19.

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