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As of 2022 just over 56% of players in the NFL were Black. CFL, XFL, and even USFL don’t publish their numbers, but I doubt they’re much different. That’s a lot of Black professional football players, but it wasn’t always that way. Charles Follis was the 3rd of 7 children born to his parents in […]
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Cardiss Collins serves for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, most of which she was the only Black woman in Congress.
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Black people can all agree on the flavor. We just have to choose between Pecan, Peekin, Peeecan.
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Luckily Harriet Tubman wasn’t alone out there, many men and women were as dedicated to the cause as she was. Let’s talk about Aunt Polly Jackson for a moment.
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The music was rock music for sure, but at the time nobody really had a description for what it was. Today, we would call it punk rock.
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She said, “Oh, these kids and rock and roll. This is just sped up rhythm and blues. I’ve been doing it forever,”
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Frankie Knuckles is one of the pioneers of house music, a unique sound developed in the gay nightclubs across Chicago
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From 1945-1965 Riddle retired from music until singer and folklorist Mike Seeger tracked him down after hearing Maybelle Carter discuss what she learned from him.
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Even if you’ve never heard the name Kilo Ali before you’ve probably heard his song Cocaine sampled by Beyonce for “America Has a Problem.” Kilo was in a gang at one point, but he left and built a career for himself with music throughout Atlanta in the early 90s through what was a unique sound
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Charley Pride led a super interesting life. In 1952 he was a pitcher in the Negro American League. When he played for the Louisville Clippers they traded him and Jesse Mitchell to the Birmingham Black Barons for a bus. Yeah, a bus. On the side, he sang a little bit, and got paid to sing
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