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April 25, 1918 – Ella Fitzgerald, “First Lady of Song” was born.
April 25, 1944 – The United Negro College Fund was established.
April 25, 1950 – Charles “Chuck” Cooper makes history as the first African American drafted by an NBA team.
April 25, 1959 – A white mob in Mississippi murdered a Black man named Mack Charles Parker, on accusation of raping a White woman.
Brain-dead woman laid to rest after being kept alive for months while pregnant due to abortion ban
Meet Joi Harris, who is now the first woman and first African American to be CEO of DTE Energy
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