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Why there’s clamor for Major James Capers Jr. to get Medal of Honor for broken legs in Vietnam
Born to a family of sharecroppers in South Carolina during the Jim Crow era on August 25, 1937, you might be fooled by Major James Capers Jr’s soft-spoken nature, but make no mistake, this is not...
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Emanuel Stance, first African-American to receive Medal of Honor following the Civil War
Emanuel Stance was a Buffalo Soldier in the American Army and a recipient of the Medal of Honor – America’s highest military decoration for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United...
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Rosamond Asiamah, Ghana’s first policewoman who petitioned gov’t to allow service women to marry
In early Ghana, policewomen had to stay dedicated to their profession without getting married or relinquished their position to marry till Ghana’s first policewoman, Rosamond Asiamah, petitioned...
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From a child in arms of Newark’s first African-American mayor, here’s Ras Baraka’s own mayoral journey
The Akans of Ghana say, if the play will be a hit, its shows signs early on. This adage couldn’t hold more meaning for current Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Ras Jua Baraka. In the profile photo, we...
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Chaka Khan, the music powerhouse who became a Panther at 14 and wife at 17
Chaka Khan, born Yvette Marie Stevens to a strict Catholic mother and a beatnik father, had various influences in her life. When her father got married a second time to a civil rights activist, she was...
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The 1987 conjoined twins surgery that shot neurosurgeon Ben Carson to fame
Ben Carson’s (United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development) claim to fame was the Binder twins’ delicate surgery in 1987. He was by then a brilliant young pediatric neurosurgeon...
