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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.

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President's Weekly Address - 4/26/14

POSTED: April 26, 2014, 8:00 am

In his weekly address, President Obama urges Congress to take immediate action on raising the federal minimum wage.

Source: The White House

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