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When Joan Myers Brown first started to study ballet in the 1930s, dance schools were segregated and opportunities for professional ballet careers for…
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When Joan Myers Brown first started to study ballet in the 1930s, dance schools were segregated and opportunities for professional ballet careers for…
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Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson grew up Greenville, S.C. during the '60s and ‘70s. During this period of her life, Woodson was very aware of the…
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Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson grew up Greenville, S.C. during the '60s and ‘70s. During this period of her life, Woodson was very aware of the…
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Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill voted 10-3 this morning to drop the name from Saunders Hall.The building was named in 1920 for Confederate Colonel and UNC…
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Jim Grimsley was an 11-year-old boy growing up in Jones County, North Carolina, when the first black children enrolled in his all-white school.It was more…
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Jim Grimsley was an 11-year-old boy growing up in Jones County, North Carolina, when the first black children enrolled in his all-white school.It was more…
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Tennis legend Althea Gibson emerged from South Carolina to break color barriers in professional tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to…
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Tennis legend Althea Gibson emerged from South Carolina to break color barriers in professional tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to…
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Charlie Sifford, the first black golfer to hold a PGA Tour card, has died at age 92. Decades after he started in golf as a caddy, he was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.