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Rapper J. Cole met with inmates when he paid a visit to the San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco. https://t.co/Ypr11HqnGf
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Estée Lauder has announced that Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal ballerina, is their newest “Modern Muse.” https://t.co/hSbjzncF5L
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On August 3rd, 1964, Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham was born in Chicago, Illinois. She became the third African American to go into space. https://t.co/LHGrQaa2P0
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DID YOU KNOW? Will Smith is the only actor with 8 consecutive movies grossing more than $100 million at the US box office #BlackExcellence https://t.co/7b7uD4hOKT
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NAACP has issued its first travel ban for Missouri after the state based new legislation on discrimination https://t.co/8c5hxs23dg
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The city of New York has approved the payment of $4 million to the family of Eric Garner, from a $5.9 million wrongful death settlement. https://t.co/fLpVkwWiHH
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Meet Jennifer Ellis, one of only 5 board-certified black female cardiothoracic surgeons in the US. #BlackExcellence #BlackGirlsRock https://t.co/ZX4UggnOGu
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Master P is set to release “I Had a Dream” documentary about his life and struggles, and how he went from the projects to Forbes! https://t.co/nXL32mePJh
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Yara Shahidi’s Black-ish spinoff is going to be called Grown-ish #BlackGirlsRock https://t.co/ZB1d43epnF
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Roger G. Chenault is facing multiple charges after allegedly screaming racial slurs at a woman and threatening to “shoot her brains out” https://t.co/yFR66iIuZq
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The Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been charged with stabbing a homeless man to death. https://t.co/lsQoR3MpJ1
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Baltimore City States Attorney is dismissing over 40 cases after reviewing a bodycam video of a cop planting evidence while 2 others look on https://t.co/NnSo4PmPy0
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Jist Couture (https://t.co/ce0EQSsnqT), founded by two young, Nigerian-American women, is home to the first 100% leather, African print bag! https://t.co/v7cWkG55fT
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Get Out is officially the most profitable movie of the year, ranking in a whopping $217M in profits and a 630 percent return on investment. https://t.co/DgPr7YV4GE
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Meet Joel Kioko: the 17-year-old raised in a Nairobi slum and now a student at the top ballet school in the UK https://t.co/j7iw381F4s
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August 4, 1882 - The beloved wife of Frederick Douglass, Anna Murray Douglass, died today after forty-four glorious years together. https://t.co/1RxTe926FI
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Congrats to Dr. Lataisia C. Jones for becoming the First Black American to graduate from FSU's PhD Biomedical Science program. ✊? https://t.co/MA7CkJ2sCf
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Congrats to Nkosiyati Khumalo on being appointed the editor of GQ Magazine South Africa. He is then 1st Black person to occupy this position https://t.co/zfcz9b2GZF
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LL Cool J is going to be the first rapper to be honored at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. #BlackExcellence https://t.co/5cjLhq07be
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Rihanna is giving bikes to girls in Malawi to aid them in getting to school. #BlackGirlsRock https://t.co/4xQ9P6O5XL
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Meet Ceata Lash, founder of PuffCuff LLC. She is the first Black woman ever to hold two patents for a natural hair accessory product. https://t.co/A4ALgHJ0ri
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Online retailer https://t.co/aDufw1gQBW is using white models to sell “Black Girl Magic” and other Black empowerment T-shirts https://t.co/EePF1or7Ua
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For the first time in history, Harvard‘s incoming class of students is majority minority. https://t.co/HHyRtkMrhh
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Studio 8 is imagining a whole new world with a comic series called Black, where only African-Americans have superpowers. https://t.co/lPMyaot9y8
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Eugene Carter, 72 got a letter from former HS basketball teammate, Tom Owens apologizing for leaving black players behind 56 yrs ago. https://t.co/x4I9JJxppm
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An update and a reminder that it has been 1,199 days since Flint, Michigan, had clean drinking water. #FlintWaterCrisis https://t.co/TnPZSbwyxZ
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Lab studies have shown that black Americans have a stronger immune system than other races. #BlackExcellence https://t.co/1PuUj1cKKa
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Rashaun Barnes, 39, was standing in front of a store in Grand Prairie, TX, when he was assaulted and left permanently disfigured by a cop. https://t.co/2wtF54noA0
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Barack Obama has been honored by the state of Illinois with his own holiday. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed “Barack Obama Day” into law on Friday. https://t.co/BuqtKSLQks
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Little Miss Flint partnered with nonprofit Pack Your Back on Sunday for a school supply distribution in her hometown of Flint, Michigan. https://t.co/9KRoZi1VK8
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