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February 15, 2019

Balladeer and pianist Nat King Cole died in 1965, leaving behind a rich musical legacy carried on by his brother Freddie and daughter Natalie.

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Convention Flashback

POSTED: September 04, 2012, 9:30 pm

In 1964 Mississippi resident Fannie Lou Hamer addresses the Democratic National Convention credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey and demands voting rights for African-Americans.

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books
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2008
  Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data
media
- White House Seeks to Muzzle Foreign Press
  Bush White House seeks to silence foreign press over criticism of Iraq War
- President Bush Addresses the Nation
  A NorthStar Network news report on President Bush's speech on Iraq
- Black Politicians in New Jersey Reach New Low
  NorthStar Network Editorial 2003
- Justice for the Central Park Five
  NorthStar Network Editorial from October 2002
- DC Voting Rights
  A NorthStar Network news report on voting rights in the nation's capital
organizations
- Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society
  P. O. Box 73067 Washington, DC 20056-3067
- African Environmental Research Consulting Group (AERCG)
  Dr. Peter A. Sam, Chairman/CEO
- African Development Institute Inc.
  Lee Cassanelli: Director
documents
- State of the Union Response, 1974
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- HIV /AIDS
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- Unlocking America
  A report exploring the social cost of mass incarceration to the nation
- HIV/AIDS Today, Issue 5
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- Black College Advocacy Handbook, 2006
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