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Beah Richards

Beah Richards, an extraordinary actress, writer and activist

Before she was Beah Richards, a commanding presence on stage, screen and television, she was Beulah Richardson, a political activist ...
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Eddie Anderson

Renowned comedian Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Last week we featured actress Gertrude Howard in the column and she had an amusing male counterpart in the early ...
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Judge Willams Hastie

Judge William Hastie, the first Black federal judge

Last week we featured Judge Constance Baker Motley and with the focus now on Judge William Henry Hastie Jr. we ...
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Sarah Boone

Sarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patent

From the moment manacled African captives were removed from the hold of slave ships and exhibited at auctions and sold ...
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Grace P. Campbell

Grace P. Campbell, a political activist in the shadows

Perhaps it stands to reason that if there is very little documentation of the men in the African Blood Brotherhood, ...
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Sarah Douglass

Sarah Mapps Douglass, ardent abolitionist, teacher and painter

In his voluminous biography of Paul Robeson, author Martin Duberman dips into the Bustill family, mainly to connect them to ...
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