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Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed 22 years ago today
by Jessie Karangu
WASHINGTON (CIRCA) — Rap sensation Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls) was shot and killed on March 9, 1997 — 22 years ago today.
The artist was leaving a party in Los Angeles and departed in an SUV. As the...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Original New York Times Obituary
The obituary, which was published on April 5, 1968, celebrated the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a prophet of a crusade for racial equality and a voice of anguish for millions of people.
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Dr. King being congratulated after the...
Here's a sample of his poetry:
NO SERENITY HERE - Poem by Keorapetse Kgositsile
An omelette cannot be unscrambled. Not even the one prepared in the crucible of 19th century sordid European design.
When Europe cut up this continent into little pockets of its imperialist want and greed it was...
The man from Jet who battled Jim Crow
At the Till murder trial, Simeon Booker (foreground) and fellow black journalists were segregated from the regular reporter pool and forced to work at a small card table in the back of the courtroom
Madison Darbyshire
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Before Barack...
Celia was facing the gallows when she went on trial in 1855 for the murder of the white slave owner who had been raping her.
She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d...
I grew up listening to East coast groups, and some West coast acts because my dad did some articles for hip-hop magazines. But I never really knew much about the Bay and their scene until like the early 00's some one hip me.
@Ronnie Lott I know you're from the bay (I think) educate a breh.
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