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Morgan Price Made History With the First Perfect 10 at an HBCU. Now She’s Done It Again at Arkansas
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105-Year-Old Virginia Dillard Walked Into Her East Texas Polling Place and Cast Her Vote
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Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., Civil Rights Leader And Two-Time Presidential Candidate, Has Joined The Ancestors at 84
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Urological Surgeon and Morehouse Alum, Dr. Willie Underwood, Set To Become President of American Medical Association
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