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October 11, 2025

Pianist Art Blakey, leader of the "Jazz Messengers" and mentor to jazz artists, is born in 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Today in Black America - July 8

POSTED: July 08, 2011, 12:00 am

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An abbreviated version of Today in Black America for July 8, 2011 will post on June 9, 2011. We will resume our regular daily posting of the top stories in the nation's press on Tuesday July 12.

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