today in black history

June 11, 2026

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Democrat from New York, and the first Black chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means was born in 1930 in Harlem.

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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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