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Diversity of Talent at Harlem Fine Arts Show
(The Root) — The creative talent of many notable and emerging contemporary artists of the black Diaspora will be on full display at the fourth annual Harlem Fine Arts Show. This year’s showcase will honor the late Percy E. Sutton, a prominent civil rights leader, businessman and avid art collector. This year HFAS expands to…
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Obama's Day, Feb. 1: Researchers, Inventors Get National Medals
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President will award 12 eminent researchers the National Medal of Science and 11…
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Do You Know Your Black History?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Who was the first African American? Answer.…
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Obama's Day, Jan. 31: Presidential Daily Briefing
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Obama's Day, Jan. 30: Talking Immigration on Telemundo, Univision
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President and Secretary Clinton will meet for lunch in…
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Obama's Day, Jan. 29: Immigration Talk in Las Vegas
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013 In the morning, the President will depart the White House en route Las Vegas, Nevada. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at McCarran International Airport are open press. While in Las Vegas, the President…
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Ancient African Archives Torched in Mali
As scholars and journalists had warned, priceless pieces of African history have been lost amid fighting in Mali. The Guardian reports: Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts, according to the Saharan town’s mayor, in an incident he described as a “devastating blow” to world heritage.…
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For Ronald McNair, the Sky Was the Limit
(The Root) — Twenty-seven years ago, on Jan. 28, 1986, the nation grieved after the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing all seven crew members. One of them was Ronald McNair, an African-American physicist and NASA astronaut from Lake City, S.C. His brother Carl recently stopped by StoryCorps, an oral history archive,…
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