today in black history

November 30, 2025

Shirley Anita St. Hill (later Chisholm) is born in Brooklyn, New York on this day in 1924, and would later win election to Congress.

Today in Black America: 10.05.09

POSTED: October 05, 2009, 6:14 pm

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A recap of some of the top stories in the nation's press impacting Black America for October 5, 2009.

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